Pittsburgh Racer, John, you and I have had this discussion many times.
Try putting one on a Hemi B body......ain't no way. What gets me is that everyone makes a big deal out of this, then we all watched on TV the Hemi Shootout and watched Bucky Hess spin around in his own oil and hit the wall.....with an 8.30 second AH Cuda.....and, no diaper. And they spin those to over 10K. The average bracket guy is being busted for this, then we find the big money hitters don't have to have one. Why?
But, the biggest I wonder is this......what about the new cars? There are new Hellcats, and others that run 10.90s, easy. We've all seen the new Hemi Challengers and others do that at your local strip. Tell the guy he has to stick a diaper on his brand new car and see if he comes back. I'd bet he doesn't.
Although I don't have anything against them, at all, if one wants by all means use them.....but, I do think it's a money grab. One of the reasons I've kept my car at C/NSS at 11 flat index is to avoid the hassle.
I am really glad to get out of that dumpster fire that is the NHRA. I got so tired of being hosed every time I turned around. It's not like it isn't already a huge amount of time and money to field a weekly bracket car but then having to adhere to every stupid little rule and change at the whim of the NHRA is just too much. I totally get some of the rules but seriously, my aluminum trans shield didn't go bad in 5 years or did my window net. It just got stupid ridiculous.
