MMPS (11 Viewers)

[Cliff]

MMPS FIGHTING TO KEEP FROM BECOMING HOMELESS | Competition Plus

Unlike Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Modified, which have multiple places to compete at the professional level, Mountain Motor Pro Stock suddenly found itself

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[mick]

can a MMPS, with it's large displacement engine, race in comp? one of the altered classes for V8's?
or if they do or can, do they end up detuning to as to not wreck the index?
(i.e. a car that was not constructed and built around a particular comp class)

 

[Mike]

Cliff, not sure what class they fall into but no reason why they couldnt.

 

[Funnycarfanatic]

Amazing class hoping the nhra can adopt it

 

[Rasn1320]

Amazing class hoping the nhra can adopt it

Could be more amazing if they ran qtr mile

 

[Mike]

Jeremy, not a chance. 3 IHRA races this year and a 16 car field was within 8 hun with 23 plus cars trying to make the field. Why mess with a good thing.

 

[Dennis]

Could be more amazing if they ran qtr mile

They ran them to a quarter mile in Epping. Fun class to watch, I've always liked MMPS.

 

[Cliff]

Always thot this class was the descendant of the old A/Gas class.

 

[Butch]

Jeremy, not a chance. 3 IHRA races this year and a 16 car field was within 8 hun with 23 plus cars trying to make the field. Why mess with a good thing.

Yep but the rich boys club won't like not being the big dogs.

 

[Cliff]

What if MMPS merged w NHRA P/S and they all ran 900" motors? Maybe the stands wouldn't empty.

 

[none]

Cliff,

Are you suggesting that all the NHRA 500CI guys just throw their stuff in the trash and start over?
The cars, engines, transmissions, rears, even wheels and tires are all different.

Alan

 

[Chili]

Cliff,

Are you suggesting that all the NHRA 500CI guys just throw their stuff in the trash and start over?
The cars, engines, transmissions, rears, even wheels and tires are all different.

Alan

Didn’t NHRA consider combining the two classes a few years ago? Just guessing they were trying to slow the MMPS down and not speed up the 500 CI racers. I don’t think the majority of the MMPS racers want to go quarter mile. When they were running NHRA I don’t remember more than a dozen showing up.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Cliff,

Are you suggesting that all the NHRA 500CI guys just throw their stuff in the trash and start over?
The cars, engines, transmissions, rears, even wheels and tires are all different.

Alan

Just get rid of Camaro Stock all together, most of the 500CI guys are all multi millionaires anyway. Then we could have all those different body styles like we saw at Norwalk's Night Under Fire. And the place will be packed!

 

[none]

NHRA did sanction some testing trying to find a way that they could run both in the same class. They didn't find a formula to do it.

The financial staus of some of the teams not withstanding, nobody wants to make millions of dollars worth of stuff obsolete.

Alan

 

[65 Goatboy]

My idea was a pipe dream!

 

[none]

Racers will always chase performance, even at the cost of excitement.

True story, I spoke to a Pro Mod racer a few years ago about torque converters and two-steps. (I'm not a fan) and told him they were refining some of the excitement out of the class. He said: It's more consistant.

I asked: If mufflers and no burnout would pick up .05 would you do it?
He said: Damn Straight!
But would it make the class more exciting?

I was watching some old footage yesterday and thinking how much I miss Dry Hops. I get why they quit doing it, but it didn't add to the excitement when they quit.

Alan

 

[Chili]

Racers will always chase performance, even at the cost of excitement.

True story, I spoke to a Pro Mod racer a few years ago about torque converters and two-steps. (I'm not a fan) and told him they were refining some of the excitement out of the class. He said: It's more consistant.

I asked: If mufflers and no burnout would pick up .05 would you do it?
He said: Damn Straight!
But would it make the class more exciting?

I was watching some old footage yesterday and thinking how much I miss Dry Hops. I get why they quit doing it, but it didn't add to the excitement when they quit.

Alan

Dry hops were cool but I really miss the long smoky burnouts.

 

[Chili]

Just get rid of Camaro Stock all together, most of the 500CI guys are all multi millionaires anyway. Then we could have all those different body styles like we saw at Norwalk's Night Under Fire. And the place will be packed!

Yes the place was packed but it wasn’t because of the MMPS. Jets, Nitro, and fireworks sell the tickets.

 

[Mike]

Chris, you beat me to it............

 

[65 Goatboy]

Racers will always chase performance, even at the cost of excitement.

True story, I spoke to a Pro Mod racer a few years ago about torque converters and two-steps. (I'm not a fan) and told him they were refining some of the excitement out of the class. He said: It's more consistant.

I asked: If mufflers and no burnout would pick up .05 would you do it?
He said: Damn Straight!
But would it make the class more exciting?

I was watching some old footage yesterday and thinking how much I miss Dry Hops. I get why they quit doing it, but it didn't add to the excitement when they quit.

Alan

I also miss throttle wacks too, they really got the attention of first timers including me. When someone who had never been asked me what a throttle wack sounded like I was stumped. After thinking about it for awhile I came up with: Imagine a huge stack of one inch thick steel plates dropped off of a 10 story building.