Diesel Tech
#1 Crusty Old Fart
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Famoso is notorious for strict tech, test and tune or not.
You have got to be joking, but coming from you I would expect no less. I've been there more times than you have and I can tell you this is not the way it is. They are no better or worse than most of the tracks I've gone to all around this country. I've been there with cars that have tech in and then run well under what they were tech'ed for. It's the same at most all tracks around the country. Most of the time unless it's a national event tech is about who knows who and how often they see you at the track. Lots of things get let by until something happens then the **** hits the fan for awhile. The NHRA rules do have a flaw in that they assume MPH will come along with ET. The perfect example of people breaking that rule is posted on you tube. Guy roll the light and waits awhile then clicks off a 13.xx @ 147mph to get around the rule. NHRA will catch on and change that sooner or later.
Using Matt's math we can take the NHRA rules and use the speed and max weight for each section and back the numbers into what trucks currently do. It may not be perfect but it's a good place to start. Maybe Matt can take the current rules and give us the weight and speed in 500 lb breaks from 4000 lbs to 8000 lbs that fit the rule he is working with. This has nothing to do with diesel Vs gas, it's about Weight Vs Speed Vs Safety Equipment.