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Originally Posted by mkorgan
I hope none of the people ever got to a NHRA event. They will think the whole field is cheating.
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Been to a couple . . . and I guess it's become the normal situation since the last time I went.
Philosophically, if everybody is running the same general engine configuration it doesn't matter, but I'd sure feel like I'd been suckered if I was to line up in my NA car and discovered that the car in the other lane had some sort of power adder. Needing to use a handicap head start would take the satisfaction out of "winning", should such an unlikely event actually happen.
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Since when it there a right way and wrong way to produce HP??
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Believe it or not, just like there's more to motorsports than drag racing and street challenges there is more to car enthusiasm than "moar HP".
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Not saying this is your opinion but that is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard and those that have that opinion are about as closed minded as anything I have ever heard of.
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And for most driving purposes, forced induction on 5+ liters of V8 is a bit like using a sledge hammer to drive a tack. For a dedicated drag race car or a strip/once-in-a-while street car it's a slightly different story.
I own a car with forced induction, and yes, I still consider it to be "crutched" with its turbocharger.
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They would role over and die if they saw what a NHRA team does to the engine between runs. If FI is cheating, what is rebuilding your engine from scratch between every run considered?? OH THE HUMANITY....idiots.
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And you call me closed-minded?
Of course I know what goes on there, and of course I know that 1000 HP per cylinder is going to use stuff up pretty quickly. And that is so far removed from street driving or any combination-use dual purpose car that it might as well be from another planet. Perhaps you might try considering 1000 total engine revolutions between rebuilds in terms of something you can drive more places than just between trees and traps.
Norm