NHRA no longer aknowledge Chrysler

D-mailman said
The TF And FC engines are not Mopar engines..BUT, the heads ARE the BASIC Mopar desisn and THAT was the point ! No body is saying they are 'Dodge" motors, what they are saying is that they ARE Mopars design,..and they ARE ! IF there was something better out there , they would be running them. NOTHING flows like a HEMI ! I talked to Herb McCandles at lenght one day at tri-State in Cinncy. a few years ago and he said the cry-babies (GM, Phord ) camps, were So loud that NHRA factored and re-factorerd (three times in one season) Mopars to the point they were uncompetitive . This is in Prostock in 1974..that is why he got out of racing. He said the Mopars had to be heavier and with smaller engines . He said " AND we were still winning" , What a statement against GM , Phord ! The last thing he said was that "the NHRA was going to have the Mopars pull a sled with bricks stacked on it so they could adjust the amount of bricks to suit the different tracks to keep Mopar from winning" ! We know he was joking..but the image of that is hilarious !! How embarrasing to GM and Phord to have to win that way ! Just about like the situation today with Harley Davidson and NHRA. HD's are 2600 CC and Suzuki's 1500 ?? The HD's are overhead cams and four vales..just like the Suzuki's !

Back in the day they were closer to a Chrysler Hemi, but you also had guys running the Keith Balck Chevy engines too. The Hemi engines used in the modern fuel car era have evolved way beyond what Chrysler produced & with no help from Chrysler. I'm talking about the purpose built blocks & heads designed solely for Nitro racing. These were designed & improved on by guys like Brad Anderson & Allan Johnson among others, with dual plug heads, stronger webbing in the blocks diferent bore spacing etc. So really there isn't much of Chrysler's design left in it anyway. It's a product of evolution. The hemispherical combustion chamber's main advantage in Nitro racing is it's ability to support the extreme amounts of cylinder pressures generated by Nitromethane. A wedge simply wouldn't hold up. The power generated by the different teams is more reliant on the fuel systems & the tuner's abiltiy to match it with the load of the clutch during a run than anything. You can trace it's roots to the Chrysler Hemi, but for them to say they are running Chrysler engines in them would be a stretch anymore. I don't think giving any credit to any of the automakers now would be fair. I just think it grew beyond that.