Public Service Announcement - A friendly reminder on the lack of parity in TAD

You are my hero Will.

 

too busy

too busy "WORKING " on our hot rod to comment , !!!!! WILL

 

how many blown cars?

during the race in BRAINERD MINN.nat event every a-fueller on the grounds was inspected by MR. COLLINS OF THE NHRA , for a leahy fuel management controller , all cowls & body panels removed if near management , why not any blown cars ? that could be an advantage to that combo as well ? & if i am wrong please correct me , as i didnt see him stop @ any blown car pits near me ,

 

I have worked with both a/f and tad and thoroughly enjoy the challenges they both present. Thinking about the parity issue I am reminded of a story of a young man I once heard about. He had a hard time controlling his speech and was often in trouble for it. Standing by a stream one day, he picked up 3 small stones and thought "I'll put these in my mouth, so that I cannot speak unless I remove them. That will give me time to think about what I am about to say." So he did. Most of the time after taking the stones out of his mouth, he would simply put them back...

 

Russ:

You have to stop posting stuff that goes over people's heads. LOL.

Why don't the alky guys get a tooth or two added to the bottom pulley or removed from the top pulley to see what happens? Cheap, quick, a few more pounds of boost and might make a difference.

Or, better yet, there are a lot of C blowers out there. Put one on O'Bannons and see if they can match the low '20's of the A/Fuelers on a more consistant basis. Or borrow one of Jay's short blocks and run it with the current TAD overdrive rule to see if adding cubic inches will help. Maybe with the extra cubes comes a little lower RPM and some parts savings?

I agree with the A/FD owners. Leave them alone.

RG

 

Stones


HAVE TO GO AND FIND THREE STONES THAT WILL FILL MY BIG MOUTH!!!!!

 

Why inspect the blower cars they werent gonna win unless like us someone screwed up. Yeah I was there working on one and seen what was going on. No reason to check a car that was almost 2 tenths slower.

 

NHRA wants T/F & AA/FC because of the noise, flames, speed, low ET and P/S because of the factory tie in. Everything else is just fill in stuff. Alcohol cars is & will always be my favorite class. The blown alky & A/F days are numbered, which is a shame. The current leadership in NHRA doesn't understand the history & the roots of what NHRA is & what it came from. All they see is dollar signs, like selling out the US Nationals as the Mac Tools US Nationals or Indy Raceway Park as O'Rielly Racewy Park. I will never call call IRP or the US Nationals what they choose to call them now!!!!
Just my fricken .02 cents worth.

 

Freak,
Is this the FIRST TIME you have been inspected for this device???? Mr. Collins has looked over our BLOWN alcohol dragster at nearly every national event we have attended this year lookiing for the leahy fuel management controller. Do not think that you are being singled out...
Honestly, I do not know why it is illegal to have one in the first place.

Chris

 

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Honestly, I do not know why it is illegal to have one in the first place.
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Probably because hes behind on the vig.

 

In all reality there is NO WAY to have parity, at every track-altitude-temp, etc etc.....you might as well run t/f against s/c, just throw in a bunch of restrictions, limits..blah blah and Ta-Da!! "parity". You just aint NEVER gonna have it.

 

Parity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post of the CENTURY in my book!

 

Do any of you guys even want to try?or what is your answer to the problem please?

Or are you just going to be negative no matter what?

And please put your real name on what you say so i can know you are a real person.

 

RG, I had suggested NHRA allowing the Blown cars to run 500 CI with the 125% overdrive. David Wells responded "Do you know how much three 500 CI motors would cost?" My question is; would running 125% on a 452-460 motor make that much difference in performance?

 

Way to put it Bobby....oops I mean Langenhammer...LMMFAO

jOkEr!.....I mean Kevin Brown

 

Will is wright. I thought that at the begining of this year we could run with these a fuel guys in just about any conditions. I was always under the thought they just would have a advantage in really good air. Well look how things have changed. I have raced Massey in hot air at Seattle and he had a best e.t of 5.448 where the best blown car was 5.444. For thoes of you who were not there the air was 4000' plus at times. So the days of the blown car having the advantage at high altitude are over. Reichrt's number at Brainerd in the final was out of this world I dont care if you put the gismo on it would not of made a blown car run 5.24 in thoes conditions. We have made a sugestion to NHRA to give us a little overdrive about 6% its one tooth on a pully. It would cost little to nothing for anyone to do. I dont want to hurt any of the a fuel cars I know how much they have struggled over the past two years to get their combos going. Is there is any a fuel racer who is worried about what a little overdrive can do for us blown guys? In the best intrest of the class I would hope that most of you a fuel racers would want to help us out a little is not good for the class as a whole if one of the two combos go away. We all need to work together and get this class back on track.

 

I think PROMOTION of the entire class would be a big help as well...

KB