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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Keith Tedford</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's amazing that 45-50 year old technology is even remotely competitive. Imagine a 1925 model T trying to be competitive with a 1965-70 muscle car. Anyone want to let me in on what it takes to make a street L78 quick? I have a 10K mile set of bare 840 heads waiting for whatever it takes. I already have the Ferrea valves. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img] </div></div>
The fact that there are different classes (based on pounds per horsepower) makes it so different era cars actually *can* compete against each other...or at least that's how it's *supposed* to work, assuming the NHRA and the manufacturer were using honest weight/hp numbers, and not stacking the deck. But that's not happening with the Cobra Jets or the Drag Paks. NHRA went with the absurdly low HP numbers submitted by FoMoCo &amp; Mopar, which means these cars rolled off the transporters waaaay too light and running just shy of 1.0 under the index without even a hint of work, thus bumping a ton of guys with literally *decades* of work on their combos out of the field. And the fact that they're even *allowed* to run is the main rub, as the rule for Stock for what, 40 years now(?), was that the car had to be showroom available to the public, DOT legal and licensable, but neither the C/J nor the DP even come with a vin or can be licensed.