The nhra.com website shows two additional races on the calendar noted as "TBA":
June 21-23
July 12-14
2024 will be a 21-race schedule.
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I’m watching.I didn’t mention any names. I
Just have to remember not to post NHRA drag racing stuff on here as there is little interest. Im
A slow learner.
Same with Nascar also !!I used to try to watch the NHRA events when they were broadcast on Sunday's finals. NHRA, NASCAR, both did everything they could to keep MOPARS from being competitive with the bowtie cars. Don't watch anymore.
I used to try to watch the NHRA events when they were broadcast on Sunday's finals. NHRA, NASCAR, both did everything they could to keep MOPARS from being competitive with the bowtie cars. Don't watch anymore.
hey dumb ***, they were going 338 prior to 2008.At 330 mph you are traveling 1 foot in.00444545 seconds, so you travel 320 feet in 1.42255 seconds.
Yeah that extra 320 feet is going to do you alot good Fred Flintstone.
Maybe you can get an ocean liner anchor to put in your car. Put things into the proper perspective dumb ***.
I've always loved watching drag races, but when you're a MOPAR guy, it's no fun watching the bowties racing each other. Pro Stock has always been my favorite category, so, as I said, I don't get any satisfaction watching Chevy against Chevy, or maybe a Ford or 2. If NHRA would quit bowing down to the Chevy or Ford teams, I could get interested again. Check back through the history of NHRA and you will find there is a very definite bias against MOPARS. Rules are made to give Chevy and Ford competitive advantages.I record and watch every NHRA race. I’ll watch it later in the day so I Dont have to hear about John Forces dog. Fast forward is your friend.
I've always loved watching drag races, but when you're a MOPAR guy, it's no fun watching the bowties racing each other. Pro Stock has always been my favorite category, so, as I said, I don't get any satisfaction watching Chevy against Chevy, or maybe a Ford or 2. If NHRA would quit bowing down to the Chevy or Ford teams, I could get interested again. Check back through the history of NHRA and you will find there is a very definite bias against MOPARS. Rules are made to give Chevy and Ford competitive advantages.
Back when Allen Johnson and a few others were running pro stock, they were running hemi's, and their torque range is higher than the chevy engines, so setting the torque limit at 10,000 rpms took away the advantage the hemi has above 10,000. At least as I understand it.In pro stock they are generic engines. They aren’t Chevy, ford, or Mopar. The day of walking into your dealer to buy pro stock parts are long gone. I follow drivers in pro stock and usually fast forward till the last two rounds if my driver is still in.
Back when Allen Johnson and a few others were running pro stock, they were running hemi's, and their torque range is higher than the chevy engines, so setting the torque limit at 10,000 rpms took away the advantage the hemi has above 10,000. At least as I understand it.
Obviously they aren't available in any vehicle that can be purchased at a dealership, I'm just saying that it's the best racing engine if it's allowed to work in it's peak torque range. I hate watching a Chevy racing another Chevy for the Pro Stock class. Everyone already knows it's gonna be a Chevy that's gonna win. That's not a competition, that's a foregone conclusion.But it wasn’t a Hemi that you could walk in a dealership and buy. They were a totally different animal.
I know some things are different now as compared to when this article was written, specifically, WJ is retired from racing. I'm reasonably sure a lot of the engine specs are the same, but there are some changes. No drag engine is an off the shelf engine. So much testing are modifications are continuous endeavors to create the ultimate engine. I understand that, but it's more to the fact that NHRA has, at least in my opinion, made the rules Chevy friendly, and targeted the MOPAR teams with the restrictions placed on the Hemi engines. It's sorta like when I was a young guy, the Chevy teams were running Vegas with small block engines, the Ford teams were running Pintos with small block engines, and the MOPAR teams were running Dusters and Demons with Hemis. The Chevys had to carry, if I remember correctly, 6 pounds per cubic inch, the Fords had to carry 6.5 per cubic inch, and the MOPAR had to carry 7 pounds per cubic inch. So doing the math, a 350 Chevy would have to weigh 2100 pounds, the Ford would weigh 2281.5, and the MOPARs would weigh 2,982 pounds, based on a 426 Hemi. Lighter means faster, so the MOPAR teams were penalized from the start. Ford and Chevy had body styles that were comparable to the preferred MOPAR bodies. My frustration is that the rules for pro stock have always favored Chevy and/or Ford. By the way, that was a very interesting article, but way over my head.Read this and you will understand that even a Chevy engine isn’t a Chevy engine. And this is an old article so imagine how bad it is now. I to don’t follow pro stock like I used to but I will usually watch the last two rounds if someone I like is still in. It could go away tomorrow and I wouldn’t miss it.
Inside Warren Johnson's Pro Stock Engine! - Hot Rod Engine Tech
Yep, forgot about him. I don't know if he was very successful or not, and I know Don Carlton was testing a small block colt and die in a test run crash at Bristol. I happened to be working a construction job in Bristol the day that happened. Broke my heart to hear about it.Ya but you said it yourself small blocks to big blocks. Don’t forget about Bob Gliddon with the small block Arrow.
Yep, forgot about him. I don't know if he was very successful or not, and I know Don Carlton was testing a small block colt and die in a test run crash at Bristol. I happened to be working a construction job in Bristol the day that happened. Broke my heart to hear about it.
Thanks for that. I think that period of time, I was busy trying to make a living to support a family, plus didn't have access to those events, no cable TV where I lived. What engine was in the Arrow?With a performance like that, one would assume that Ford would do anything in its power to keep Glidden happy, but when the then three-time champion approached Ford for additional sponsorship money, the automaker balked. Plymouth wasted no time in stepping up to the plate, and for the 1979 season Glidden found himself behind the wheel of a Pro Stock Plymouth Arrow. Despite his inexperience with the car and its drivetrain, Glidden lost just three national events over the entire season, posting seven national event wins for the second season in a row. The performance was more than good enough to earn Glidden his fourth title, and he returned with his Plymouth Arrow in 1980.
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John Force and Bob Glidden in 2005. Autostock photo, courtesy of Ford Motor Company.
Unlike the previous season, where Glidden had dominated the field in Pro Stock, 1980 was anything but a walk in the park. Heading into the Winston Finals in October, Glidden trailed points leader Lee Shepherd by two rounds, and likely would have lost the title had Shepherd's transmission not failed in the second round. Though the margin of victory wasn't what Glidden had grown accustomed to, it was still enough to produce his fifth championship
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Thanks for that. I think that period of time, I was busy trying to make a living to support a family, plus didn't have access to those events, no cable TV where I lived. What engine was in the Arrow?