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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
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.
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".
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.
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
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I think you missed my point or I did not articulate it well enough. Let me try again. If a purist wants to stay NA for their own view of the world then GREAT, let them do that. But for a purist to say that someone who has a different way to deliver HP is unacceptable is just plane silly.
Let me use another analogy....I love fly fishing. It is an art, requires lot's of skill, and eliminates lots of other people from doing it because of the time it takes to deliver a success result. HOWEVER, I don't think someone using a spinning reel or a bait cast with extremely heavy line to catch the same fish is cheating or using a crutch. I choose to use a fly rod setup because I enjoy it. If someone else can get the same enjoyment with equal or better results...more power (pun) to them. I don't hate them or look down on them. I could have done the same thing but I CHOSE not too. N/A -vs- FI is the same darn thing and those that say THEIR view is the only correct view are closed minded by definition.