NHRA hp updates

[Kevin Love]

"The decision to adjust horsepower or to reduce the index will be at the discretion of the
NHRA Tech Department. "

This line from the AHFS rules is the key to all your questions. They can do anything
they want regardless of the guidelines .

[Bob Shaw]

Kevin, you are exactly right.. If they think you go too fast they will punish you no matter what their rules are. And they have to explain their actions to nobody.

[Tony Fagnilli]

Just complaining here. My combination got hit with 14 H.P. That's 77 pounds. SEVENTY SEVEN. I'm ready to park the car and walk away from Stock for good.

[Tony Fagnilli]

BTW, my quickest pass was 1.007 under. And that only happened once. So there's that.

[4543]

Tony, Email Pat C and ask for an explanation. That’s what I did to find out I missed the cut off by .004.

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by Tony Fagnilli

BTW, my quickest pass was 1.007 under. And that only happened once. So there's that.

You must be running a late model soft combo. Copo. Mustang ?
Must be instant 120 hit?
Because 1. Run is not getting HP

[Tony Fagnilli]

Originally Posted by James Perrone

You must be running a late model soft combo. Copo. Mustang ?
Must be instant 120 hit?
Because 1. Run is not getting HP

James, it's my understanding that if there are two runs of 1.00 or faster under the index, that triggers something. And then the NHRA looks at the combination's average, giving H.P. at the end of the year. There are other guys running my combo and they have gone over a second under. So, I'm guessing that's what did it. I just wish I had known this was happening.

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by Tony Fagnilli

James, it's my understanding that if there are two runs of 1.00 or faster under the index, that triggers something. And then the NHRA looks at the combination's average, giving H.P. at the end of the year. There are other guys running my combo and they have gone over a second under. So, I'm guessing that's what did it. I just wish I had known this was happening.

The combo must be a little soft to begin with because all these cars 2008 and newer are under factored to begin with.
Can’t help but too go too dam fast
That’s the way system supposed to do
And with no mineshaft
It’s gonna get real ugly especially for these newer cars now
There are know good running combinations safe now
Where gonna get it in the shorts

[SDT1DYI]

Nothing more disharting than doing the work and one did not slow the car down to what one was looking for.
Seriously, theres got to be a better way to have a level playing field for fast and not so fast cars.
Making fast cars run Slow is not the answer.

Steve Teeter Stk/SS 620

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by SDT1DYI

Nothing more disharting than doing the work and one did not slow the car down to what one was looking for.
Seriously, theres got to be a better way to have a level playing field for fast and not so fast cars.
Making fast cars run Slow is not the answer.

Steve Teeter Stk/SS 620

Well, let's see; NHRA could hire some new Techs that know what a "stock" cylinder head is supposed to look like kinda like the old, retired Techs did. They could stop manipulating the engine specs that now allow Edelbrock and other aftermarket heads and camshafts and intake manifolds that were "originally available on cars only sold to unicorns in La-La Land" and they could stop gluing the starting lines.
That would work!