Hood Scoops to Comp

[CBS]

Being a beginner in this super stock thing....I wouldn't mind the faster cars out of super stock.....then ours would be the faster car more often....but given the current economic situation...any rule changes are not good...they just cost money....and nobody wants that....

I have always been a bracket racer mostly in s/g and s/c....but this class thing is a lot of fun....it consumes you....its all we think about...its a riot...and I have a 170 mph super gas car...............(we have a new challenger going together...SS/HA)

and for the guy that said the CJ's need a hit....in case nobody noticed...Brian Oakes and his awesome big block 69 camaro...handed our butt to us...that car is every bit as fast as we are........maybe someday we will get to run him....but until then we can verbally jab on the internet...(all in fun)......you don't do that bracket racing....

.....not to mention several rules added to the rule book for us...nice...spend more money

so leave the rules alone......

I like the little grey mustang with the hoodscoop anyway....

Rock Haas
SS/DA 08 CJ

[BPotts]

Why is everyone wanting to throw rocks at the hood scoop cars?? Is it just because of the looks and wanting SS to get back to it's roots or does every one just THINK because it has a hood scoop it's faster? I don't have a qualifying sheet in front of me, but if you were to take a sheet and block out the people that can spend big money, where would most of the modified cars fall on that list? The scoop car is NOT always, automatically the faster car. The honest reason why I have one is because I don't want to be subjected to tearing down like the true SS and GT cars have to and I certainly don't have the money to go run comp. So I guess I would be one of the ones that would just quit and I assume there are several out there just like me. Then, like Beard said, you've not helped comp at all and in the end you've just hurt the SS count. I remember counting one time and assuming everyone could run one second under the index (I can not by the way) SS/CS was just barely in the quickest half. It would also be interesting to see how big of a percentage of the true SS and GT cars run around one second under versus how many of the modified cars can do the same. OK, go ahead and beat me up....

[Don Kennedy]

Bpotts : there is or was a strong rumor going around that at one time the possibility that NHRA was thinking about moving the modified cars in Super Stock to Comp to increase the car count in Comp > Nothing more nothing less

[RPM5595]

Originally Posted by BPotts

Why is everyone wanting to throw rocks at the hood scoop cars?? Is it just because of the looks and wanting SS to get back to it's roots or does every one just THINK because it has a hood scoop it's faster? I don't have a qualifying sheet in front of me, but if you were to take a sheet and block out the people that can spend big money, where would most of the modified cars fall on that list? The scoop car is NOT always, automatically the faster car. The honest reason why I have one is because I don't want to be subjected to tearing down like the true SS and GT cars have to and I certainly don't have the money to go run comp. So I guess I would be one of the ones that would just quit and I assume there are several out there just like me. Then, like Beard said, you've not helped comp at all and in the end you've just hurt the SS count. I remember counting one time and assuming everyone could run one second under the index (I can not by the way) SS/CS was just barely in the quickest half. It would also be interesting to see how big of a percentage of the true SS and GT cars run around one second under versus how many of the modified cars can do the same. OK, go ahead and beat me up....

Agree 100%

[RPM5595]

Originally Posted by CBS

Being a beginner in this super stock thing....I wouldn't mind the faster cars out of super stock.....then ours would be the faster car more often....but given the current economic situation...any rule changes are not good...they just cost money....and nobody wants that....

I have always been a bracket racer mostly in s/g and s/c....but this class thing is a lot of fun....it consumes you....its all we think about...its a riot...and I have a 170 mph super gas car...............(we have a new challenger going together...SS/HA)

and for the guy that said the CJ's need a hit....in case nobody noticed...Brian Oakes and his awesome big block 69 camaro...handed our butt to us...that car is every bit as fast as we are........maybe someday we will get to run him....but until then we can verbally jab on the internet...(all in fun)......you don't do that bracket racing....

.....not to mention several rules added to the rule book for us...nice...spend more money

so leave the rules alone......

I like the little grey mustang with the hoodscoop anyway....

Rock Haas
SS/DA 08 CJ

I'm the guy that said the CJ's need a hit but I was referring to the Stockers. I should have specified. As for this comment , "Being a beginner in this super stock thing....I wouldn't mind the faster cars out of super stock.....then ours would be the faster car more often...."
I just don't understand why you and others think that other people should be punished or moved into another class just so you can have an easier time of it. Didn't you know that the Modified cars were in Super Stock when you built your car? As I said before I am a Ford Man and I'm glad to see the new CJ's involved but I don't like it when people start trying to change the class just to fit them better.

[jarn05]

Originally Posted by Don Kennedy

Since NHRA Competiton Eliminator car count is down what about moving any car in Super Stock that has an after market Hood scoop on it to Comp eliminator . this would be a good move on NHRA part to help save Comp Eliminator to help increase the car count in that eliminator would be a wise move or a bad move ??.

let it rip boys and girls

ps The post has absolutely nothing to do with anyone personally Just a simple post so Please no one read into this other than what was posted .Just maybe a way to save comp if it is in trouble with car count , just a simple statement nothing more everyone wheww

don i have a car that i am trying to run in both classes, comp does not run everywhere nor does super stock,instead of having two race cars i chose to have a car that will fit in two seperate catagories running one engine combo and only minor weight change (ss/dm-g/sma).
did you ever ask any s/s modified car owners why the chose "hood scoop cars" in s/s, i bet everyone you ask has the same answer and it is not soft indexes, the reason my father and i built the avenger was to eliminate the tear down bull *****, check the carbs and pump it! pass go collect $200.00!!!!
after years of tearing hemi's apart at the track and at home and everywhere else owning a modified car is a walk in the park, maintenence is no more than enyone else should be doing.

[randy wilson]

Ditto