Pro-Stock going "silhouette" racing?

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I feel really naive, I didn't realize that engine leasing was that prevalent in P/S ! Silly me for thinking that each team would have some sort of their own engine program instead of just deep pockets.
 
Pro stock is dead. nobody cares anymore. Please just kill it and start a new class. I bet more people would watch nostalgia pro stock than what we have now. I don't know the answer but pro stock has sucked for years.
 
Some how they think this will save the class, but it only alienates it from the fanbase even more.

What they need to do is kill PS and create a new one based on factory stock, but with looser rules. Call it something like Factory Super Stock.
 
Small tire run whatever you want door slammer class seems to be the way to go. I quit watching PS racing years ago. Too many electronics too.
 
Pro Stock has traditionally been my favorite class. If this is the way it is going to evolve then I am done with it. I don't know if any of the sanctioning bodies realize that many people cheer for their favorite brand more than a particular driver. NASCAR does not realize this NHRA does not realize this. Pro Stock was the one place I could root for MOPAR. I have said it before but maybe kill Prostock and replace it with Super Stock or Factory Stock. I think fans and manufacturers would love seeing a product on the track that has some direct lineage to the cars on the showroom floor.
 
Isn’t F.I, mandatory?
Why?

Why a rpm limit?
To make it more competitive as well as cheaper?

Yeaaaa right!
Wanting to make it interesting?

Go backwards about ... oh I don’t know, the 70’s & the 80’s were danm good decades

Just sayin....
 
That ain't the worst of it...it means a Ford can run a Chevy motor, or a Mopar, or any other make, just like Funny car. That is what it means to be a silhouette class - what's under the sheet metal for propulsion doesn't matter any more. They ought to let 'em run factory blowers and fuel injection, same make as the sheet metal, same as available on the showroom today.
 
451 Cuda'.s nailed it : Alienation of the car Lunchbox Joe appreciates . Same as NASCAR.
 
Yep bring back the stock part in Prostock. Make it a class with cars that look right,using actual carbodys and with the engines they came with (except boost) let them add tunnelrams and carbs and lencos i dont care but keep the body and enginetype somewhat identifiable as whatever it was at the dealer.
 
I watch stock, super stock and Comp eliminator. Sportsman racing is the bread and butter of drag racing but NHRA is determined to kill the sportsman classes for the John Force show. Drag racing will be dead like Nascar in no time.
 
Fans are leaving the NHRA for NMCA and heads up racing every weekend. It seems like top fuel, funny car, and pro stock is going the way of NASCAR.

I give it ten years and every car will be running the same exact combination and body. I’ll stick with my nasatalgia drags and heads up racing.
 
I don't participate in sticker racing, and when Nascar went to that Car Of Tomorrow, BS, I said fuggit.

The only way NASCAR could be interesting is if they went to limited fuel supply for any given race...and then reduce that fuel amount every season. I've advocated for years that if they want to get REAL fuel economy increases onto the street, that this is how they should do it.

As far as drag racing, I really only watch street legal doorslammers and top fuel. That way I still get to watch Chrysler engineering dominate ;-)
 
I would love to see all of the big 3 have competitive cars. That's what makes it interesting and fun to watch. Factory block, standard trans, NA cars. Give some power back to the mechanics and tuners and engineers to use their knowledge to win.
 
aaronk785 said:
Pro stock is dead. nobody cares anymore. Please just kill it and start a new class. I bet more people would watch nostalgia pro stock than what we have now. I don't know the answer but pro stock has sucked for years.
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I would rather watch modern day Pro Stock than Top Fuel of Funny Car.
 
Stopped watching circle track when they went Car of Tomorrow too. I haven't watched Pro Stock in probably a decade. Just boring to me.
 
There is a lot of things about current day NHRA racing that I'm not real enthused about it, but I still very much like the sound of power that the nitro cars and pro stock have.

I have a lot of memories from 40 years ago about how it was that I like a whole lot more than how it is today.

I first went to the Indy Nationals in 77. In 77 they qualified 32 cars for top fuel. Modified eliminator ran a lot of powerful high winding stick shift cars. Pro stock was still in the pounds per inch era, so some of those cars would really rev too.

It started changing in 82. The new pro stock rules mandated 500 inch engines and minimum weight of 2350 lb. for everybody, no matter what brand. Which was good in the respect that it motivated a lot of people to try and run pro stock. There must have been 50 cars show up to try to qualify for the 16 car field.

But also in '82 they dropped modified eliminator and replaced it with super gas, a big step backwards that pissed off a lot of people.

I went to Indy for 30 years in a row starting in 77. Only been back a couple times since '07, may not ever make it back.

These days I like the vintage or nostalgia stuff a lot more. Last summer I went to the meltdown drags at Byron, IL. over 500 entries, everything '66 and older, had a blast. Saw some cars out there I hadn't seen in 40+ years.
 
67redcudavert said:
There is a lot of things about current day NHRA racing that I'm not real enthused about it, but I still very much like the sound of power that the nitro cars and pro stock have.

I have a lot of memories from 40 years ago about how it was that I like a whole lot more than how it is today.

I first went to the Indy Nationals in 77. In 77 they qualified 32 cars for top fuel. Modified eliminator ran a lot of powerful high winding stick shift cars. Pro stock was still in the pounds per inch era, so some of those cars would really rev too.

It started changing in 82. The new pro stock rules mandated 500 inch engines and minimum weight of 2350 lb. for everybody, no matter what brand. Which was good in the respect that it motivated a lot of people to try and run pro stock. There must have been 50 cars show up to try to qualify for the 16 car field.

But also in '82 they dropped modified eliminator and replaced it with super gas, a big step backwards that pissed off a lot of people.

I went to Indy for 30 years in a row starting in 77. Only been back a couple times since '07, may not ever make it back.

These days I like the vintage or nostalgia stuff a lot more. Last summer I went to the meltdown drags at Byron, IL. over 500 entries, everything '66 and older, had a blast. Saw some cars out there I hadn't seen in 40+ years.
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Check out the Holley Hot Rod reunion in bowling geeen Kentucky.
 
I've been to the BG event several times, had a good time. Some people I know from the Detroit area helped out with a couple of the Cacklefest cars. Met and talked to some old time nitro racers.
The first NHRA event I ever attended was the Sportsnationals at BG in '77. The place hasn't changed much since '77 either, although the A/C in the bathrooms was nice.
 
Toyota is the "Official Car of the NHRA"
Within a year or two it will be all Chevy powered Toyotas.

NO THANX
 
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