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Date Posted: 22:42:29 11/25/03 Tue
Author: Andy V.
Subject: Consider this.
In reply to: Frenchman 's message, "It's all about streetable horsepower to me." on 11:40:02 11/25/03 Tue

Your opinion is well respected French. However, earlier, just this year, a guy from Canada upped the MPH and ET records in Superstreet with a nitroused small cubic inch BBC in a late model Firebird. This was done against highly refined turbo combinations that seemed to be dominating the class in similar cars. What I am trying to point out, is no one has eclipsed the true potential of ANY combination. That is the technical exercise that I love the most about this sport. Every time someone breaks a record, it is almost inevitably said, that no one will ever beat that. But year after year, the determined racers find a way to do it. Some bend the rules, some use their heads and find power no one else has. The NMCA rules are not archiac. The are still very much in effect. They are based on how much horsepower can be built per cubic inch. A larger inch motor (given all other things equal) will always make more power. Put a small block in your car and throw weight in it to get the weight back to where it is with the 572(?), then see how fast it is. See how it compares to your car the way it is now. Not much competition is it? This is the way that I forsee the rules. No matter what is decided, in the end, there will always be "Groups" of cars that will compete with each other. You with JC, Mali, me, etc... Jen with Amy, Dave, Hooptie, etc... The rules are almost non relevant, right. We are all going to race (even without rules if we wanted), and we are all going to get faster and faster. We were all street racers at one time or another. There were never any rules in street racing. You showed up with whatever you had. Negotiations for car lengths was between drivers. That was it! I too respect weight and how it effects the performance of the car (not the engine). Yes, a heavy car with respectable numbers (such as yours) is very impressive! If you were to show up to street race, then you'd be racing whatever the other guy had. Even if it was a V8 on a skateboard. When we show up in Unice, it is to race, whatever we have. Regardless of what kind of heads we use, or how much nitrous or how many turbos, or even if you can drive it to the track! That is all very cool stuff, and it does not go without recognition. But at the end of the day, the fastest car is the fastest car. Flyweight cars will be put in a racecar class. I have to agree with JC on a minimum weight for each class. OK Chris Rock... I'm shutting up!

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