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Put Injected Nitro in IHRA Top Fuel?I agree that A/Fuelers like Michael Gunderson's Under The Gun and the Bartone Brothers could win on the IHRA trail. Given a slick track in the heat of the day the A/Fueler with less power could pull an upset over Millican or Litton. Below is the top half of the Alcohol dragster field at Pomona compared to the Top Fuel field at Buds Creek. Any of the injected nitro cars could have made the show. I enjoy your site and thought for some time the Bartone's of the world could compete in IHRA and have brought up the subject at Bristol Dragway where I work a second job. I work the Div 2 event in the water box and can tell you the A/Fuelers are a show at night and they are a nitro car for sure. 1. Alan Bradshaw Back Attack Racing A/FD 5.291 254.76 2. Bill Reichert Bar's Leaks A/FD 5.316 271.68 3. Duane Shields Shortline Express A/FD 5.331 269.56 4. Morgan Lucas Lucas Oil A/FD 5.352 265.06 5. John Haley Haley Motorsports B/AD 5.391 263.46 6. Dave Hirata VP Racing Fuels/Hirata's A/FD 5.392 268.49 7. David Wells Blue Bunny B/AD 5.419 261.62 8. Steve Federlin Impatience Racing B/AD 5.419 260.16 1. Clay Millican Werner Dragster 4.680 312.13 2. Josh Starcher Colhart Motorsports Dragster 4.798 299.40 3. Bruce Litton Lucas Oil Dragster 4.859 300.80 4. Bobby Lagana Jr Twilight Zone Dragster 5.011 261.47 5. Roger Dean Barry Allen Engines Dragster 5.493 189.26 6. Todd Paton Tim Horton's Racing Dragster 5.668 187.03 7. Jack Ostrander Dragster 5.915 177.60 8. John Sipple Palmer Chiropractic Dragster 9.700 76.65 Thank you - Mike Carrico
I have been a fan of injected nitro burners since the days of Junior Fuel and believe the proposed step allowing the A/FD cars to compete in Top Fuel is the right step.Allow a multi stage clutch, no nitro limit and adjust the weight of the A/FD to fine tune the combination with an agreed capacity limit then look out. I think they are the most underated drag race machines on the planet. - Honeybob@bigpond.com
If Bader is a good business man, he is aware of the performance of the A-Fuel cars and the potential they have with clutch management and less weight. IHRA has received many emails from A-Fuel owners on this subject as well. I agree with you that it would make for an interesting situation and there might be a lot of A-Fuel owners willing to make the necessary changes to increase their performance in the IHRA arena. Probably won't happeen but lets keep trying. - Bob Holley
I can't speak for all A/Fooler teams, but I've talked to teams who have thought about the different ways to run our cars. Whether you know or not, in 1999, 5 A/Fooler cars ran at Norwalk for no charge. I asked IHRA if I could run with Top Fuel. The answer of course was no, even though there was no real reason. Around that time, the A/Fuel deal was just starting to come around. It was right on the verge of breaking or surviving. As we see now, we've survived, but without change, money, and controversy every year. Just the thought of 500 cubes at 2000 pounds, straight can and clutch management makes me drool. Like Pro Mod, good controversy has helped the interest in the class. We could provide that also, but it comes with nitro. - Dave Hirata
A/Fuel with clutch management is a great idea. The noise, flames
smoke and Ooooops, We GoofedIn the story by Bobby Bennett, Jr "Once a Warren Johnson crewman, Anderson becomes the first
driver to ever Gary Stinnett worked for WJ and won a NHRA S/C World Championship,
(and Let the record reflect that Greg Anderson is the only "Pro Stock" driver to have worked under Warren Johnson and won a championship. We stand corrected Donnie, thanks for the tip. - Editor
Whats Going On With Tony P?Hello. First off, great website...enjoy being updated on all the goings-on in NHRA in the offseason. Congrats to Tony Pedregon and also Cruz for bringing Quaker State back into the Funny Car wars.Just wanted to ask about Frank Pedregon where does he fit in this equation? Another team in the works for Frank? Keep up the good work. - Tom Wright.
Tom, we made a few calls and your answers are in our cover story. - Editor.
We Have Gained A FanOne web page with the interview with Dean Skuza, another with Cory Mac, and the article on the new Shelby. And there is even more where that came from! Good stuff, keep it up. The more I see, the more often I hit the page. - Alan Ganger
This guy needs some help(We're running this letter unedited.) have a problem on a friends car it is a chevy 350 671 think 14%
overdrive mthoanol man injection well this car was being built buy
this older guy that paints cars and does body work and works on
engines well just a few weeks ago he died in his sleep and they
dont know what from and he still had the car well he showed us how
to run it but he didnt get to explain how to adjust it well he had
it all adjusted and running ready to go and then he died well we
got the car and it runs good well he told us to take the belt driven
fuel pump and take it off put in house keep it good and blow air
threw the lines to winterise it so it doesnt carode well we were
taking the lines loose and the barell valve got turned when we were
taking the line loose and we have no idea on adjusting it and that
guy said never mess with it cause it can mess the engine up Anyone out there know how to help him? - Editor
Bring on 32 FuelersWOW! Like the good old days. If you can find the payout money.... 1/3 to 1/2 the races running 32-cars fields would force the tracks to double the ticket window. Increase seating... and make more room for press and ESPN (who wold raise advertisings dollars). I can't find the bad side. - Ed Davis
Roger Gets PropsI just wanted to give Roger some atta boys for the photos on your site. His flame shots in Part I are just spectacular!!!! As you know I’m a camera buff and these shots are just out of this world good!! There are three of them that I keep rotating on my desk top because I just can’t pick which one is the best. I think it’s the Cruz shot. Give Roger one of those new Cannon 6.3 Megapixel digital cameras with the interchangeable lenses and you will dominate drag racing photography because your photos will print as posters. I love what you are doing with you site, please keep it up. - Paul Fink Thanks Paul, we love Roger's Photography too. - Editor |