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Lol....the word innovation is sure getting used a lot in place of cheating.
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If you look at a 1970 rulebook, you won't find sections on vacuum pumps, delay boxes, nitrous oxide, digital recorders, tranny brakes and the long throw buttons, blinders. Even radial tires was a huge step forward. Do you think that every single person that came up with these items (and tons and tons more), were "cheating"? IMO they were just using the rules in place to further their advantage. Eventually, new rules were written to regulate most of them. But they didn't let it go YEARS before implementing new rules. That's the thing here, there's a lot of money laying on the table. Good Lord, you built one yourself right? There's more of these engines out there than anyone's thinking. From multiple engine builders. I've had phone calls from two racers that are in the same boat as the minions camp.
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So with that logic, and just keeping it related to the transmission: We all have to remove our straight-cut/different than OEM ratio gearsets, take out our roller bearings and go back to bushings, remove our low volume front pump and put a stock one back on, make sure we run the correct number of clutches and steels that the OEM trans had, remove the aluminum drums and put the cast iron OEM ones back in etc etc etc ?
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I take that back, th400 and PG. I would love to have one in my stocker. Make the converter loose at the hit so it will 60' and then tighten it up down track to improve ET
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I've read the rule book on SS auto transmissions and I don't see why a "fluid dump" would be illegal. If you want to start splitting hairs then in reality a transbrake is a "fluid dump" and for that matter, so is an E-shift. NHRA seems much more concerned as to how you're releasing that transbrake then what you're doing with your pump pressure. Now if you are in some way manipulating your pump pressure to cause some kind of a "delay" in your transbrake release then I would think that you're doing something illegal. Just my $.02.
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Only two rules for S/S automatic transmissions. (Maybe this is three) 1a, Must be from the same parent company 1b, Must bolt to to engine block without an adapter. 2, No centrifugal lock up converter ..i.e , the Griner / Coan unit from 40 years ago. If some tech person told anyone that they couldn't the fluid path internally, then you probably should have never asked.
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