I never followed this back then to understand the drama, but the car has flat out run this week and lived up to the drama.

Now how does it work tomorrow?
I have a couple buddies who are there but 1 blew both head gaskets(bad nitrous backfire) yesterday and took a bye...will he be able to run tomorrow or is it only those close to the top in their class?

interesting

maybe one day they will come south and east a little

On their last attempted pass in Memphis the Aussie Charger broke their gear vendors overdrive, they said this was the 2nd one this week. They were under gear vendors awning changing it when I left today.

because of the rules change in the PRO STREET class 2 years ago, Eddie was cleared last year because the floor was done in bead rolled steel floor all welded in.

Since Freighburger approved Eddie's car last year, Keith Turk did what is done in the form of racing he participates in, Land Speed stuff and grandfathered any car that has competed in previous drag weeks in the same class where rule changes accured

End of Story

Keith Turk is a very fair guy but wont take any BS from anyone. Basically he is just like you Leon

You seemed to have left out the first line of rules for that class which state that the class is for STOCK FRAME SMALL TIRE CARS, neither of which you have...........Correct me where I am wrong

None of that other sounds the same as Turk told me today, because I asked him point blank about your car. He said you kept trying to justify that your car "should" be legal, because NHRA says this and this.......to which he told me he DID reply "we don't care what NHRA says you can do". So I guess that is where your "they don't care about NHRA rules" came from. I believe this, because you alluded to as much in one of your own posts that you told them it SHOULD be legal............... I also asked him, would Leons car have been legal for Pro-Street with the stock pans welded in, to which he said "100% legal"

I also asked about the alleged "Eddie Miller Rule" that you allude to..... which Mr. Turk replied that "Eddie Miller and 3 other Pro Street cars who had previously competed in several Drag Week events in the Pro-Street class, were "grandfathered" in with less than 100% stock floor pans, because they had previously been deemed legal for said class and the deviations from the "absolute" of the rule book were not considered a performance advantage". He also went on to say however, that "regardless of cars NOW competing, any NEW build(which yours is as far as Drag Week)would have to adhere 100% to the rules as written"...........So there you go, straight from the tech directors mouth today, so no need for a conference call. Now you may not LIKE the way they choose to enforce their rules, but it is THEIR rules and you exercised your option NOT to compete and that is your right...........I suppose it is also your right to accuse them of being biased and that Eddie and the other guys are cheaters, but you would be wrong. Those guys were deemed legal. Just because you don't like it and they wouldn't let you do the same, does NOT make them cheaters. That makes them past participants whose voice was heard, not just some complainer who doesn't like the rules and who has never been to Drag Week.

I have NO axe to grind with you and am sure no Eddie supporter........but I really don't care for you trashing Hot Rod, their rules, their staff, Keith Turk or accusing them being biased towards certain individuals

Monte

Sooooo.... In other news.... Joe Barry is out.

Boo.

i wondered what happened on that last run...john faraone is a very good friend of mine here in west australia and has always had the best damn mopars on the street-attached is one of his other mopars-he`s about to fire up my 500 cuber injected for the challenger vert when he gets back. i trust he got the charger back together and i`ll look for it on the live feed.
all the best
frank in australia

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On their last attempted pass in Memphis the Aussie Charger broke their gear vendors overdrive, they said this was the 2nd one this week. They were under gear vendors awning changing it when I left today.

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14 staples in his tummy because of a recent surgery.One tough dude.Joe had to be treated for heat exhaustion at Indy.Sucks he didn't make it back to BG.

Mike Kohlmans cool 31 Chrysler coupe is out, (he broke the dana 60 on his 1st launch and couldn't get it fixed before the deadline) I see that he made some exibition passes yesterday, does anyone know what his et/mph was? This is the first time he's ran it without the blower.

Eddie ran 8.58
Ahokas lifted pass 7.5x I think
Bailey hasn't made it down
Barnyard viper 11.4x I think they said (right timing board is NF today)
Mike Crow 10.13
I haven't see Ray run.
Mike Roy 7.83 182

Bailey just ran 6.78 217

Goldstone 7.94

Farone 7.93 180, first 7sec run for that car I think?