Ron,
Im familiar with the car your brother pilots.
Very nice Stock Eliminator car if Im not mistaken?

One of the rules 422 has and this can be an advantage one day and hurt you the next is:
At least at BSD they do a zero ending dial. Meaning your dial has to end in 0 regardless of your cars performance during time shots.

During the York 30 Nationals we were running 9.71 & 72s all day. This was a no brainer according to their rules. We did our dial at 9.70 We never got to run first round of eliminations because of the rain.
During Flash Back Friday..same rules applied. However this time we were running 9.54, 9.55 during time shots. We decided to go with a 9.50
As luck would have it we got matched up with a faster car and was a former National Champ.
The only way we were going to win was to beat her at the light and that didnt happen. She ran a near perfect run RT & dial. She earned it, we did not. Yes giving away 1/2 tenth hurt us before the lights even dropped but doing the math we would have lost anyway.

Doug