CHEVY GUYS GET CAUGHT CHEATING AT INDY
Four of the top five, non-chevrolets! No wonder chevy cheaters were punished by giving them more horsepower!
Yeah, don’t tell them tough titty go find some power.
Just factor the fast cars. It blows.
And don’t anyone be fooled by this. When NHRA killed Pro Stock Truck it was because (one of the reasons and I got this from a reliable PS source) NHRA knew that Dodge was making more HP than the Ford and Bow tie junk .
The only reason Dodge wasn’t winning was the design of the body. Had Dodge did the modifications the racers wanted they would have dominated the class.
Dodge would not budge so they weren’t winning because of the aero package. Not from HP. Plus the truck class was wildly popular on TV and that was a reason to kill the class.
That is NHRA thinking. In TV ratings when it was on TV PST was second only to top fuel in ratings.
Better than PS, FC and PSM.
And NHRA knew the fuel change was going to hurt the Dodge, but they did it any way.
And of course, the switch to EFI hurt the Dodge. Bad. Because of valve layout the ports in the heads are very short. To get the intake length where it needed to be, the Hemi (it wasn’t a Hemi but that’s the moniker it got) had longer manifold runners than a GM intake.
With EFI they took away the scoop (just stupid and a case of Warren Johnson being dead wrong on hood scoops) they couldn’t get the runners long enough.
And with that shitty rule change we also got the RPM limit. And that killed the Dodge and buried it in the trash heap.
The Dodge would out rpm the GM garbage by a ways. Now with the EFI and the rev limit the Dodge was sunk.
It needed even more rpm than the 11,500 plus rpm the Dodge was at.
And NHRA knew exactly what they were doing when the pencil whipped the Dodge right into obsolescence.