"Maybe you should read your rule book. Mid and mini pickup, modified or production may NOT run anything larger than a C motor."
Those are GAS classes.
Stan
You're absolutely right Stan. There's not much cross-over if any between the Production or Modified truck rules and the Diesel Truck rules. We revert to Gas Coupe rules on body mods and the book clearly states up to a AA engine.
Believe me when I tell you, I do wish all the best for Pat and I have all the confidence in the world that he will be over 200 this year, and to do it with a production truck stock body is outstanding, will be quite an accomplishment. We will not be at Speed Week with our truck as we have committed to being there for another team to make sure they do well. Our race team however does have a target and a plan to run various engine combinations from E all the way to AA over the next few years. The truck will run in both gas and diesel and hopefully at the same event which should be interesting. We have some great technology to flaunt and will take advantage of the aerodynamics available to us as written in the class rules.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, perhaps the time is right to have a production class in trucks, rather than trying to rally the troops to change the rules to suit one individuals effort.
Putting things into perspective to some who haven't known the history of this sore spot....
So what would you think of someone running a 2/3rd's scale roadster? 66% of the frontal area of OEM?
There are subtle aero differences and there are huge ones. With trucks, they tend to be huge.
Nobody even dragraces the duallies seriously. They give up a full second against the SRW trucks. Yeah, you could LSR a duallie. And you'd find out why they lose 3-4mpg highway to the SRW trucks at the same weight. We call them Fat-Bottom Girls.
It's like complaining that someone is running a BB Chevy or Hemi in a roadster and it didn't come stock with one....totally bogus. I thought the sport was trying to push the speed envelope....not limit it. We are setting out a plan to run this vehicle beyond the limits set by previous trucks and raise the bar if we can. We will run within the rules written in the book, not the rules rumored on the internet.
Curtis Halvorson
