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Cheaters

I've been fortunate to be pretty good on the tree thru out my career. Very early on in N/SS I tried a delay box. We contacted the race organizer and were granted permission to use it. When we got there, foul was called by other racers. We used it with permission that weekend amongst protests. It didn't work out well. It was connected to an air throttle stop and line lock. Never used it again. Fast forward a few years. Weve now finished #2 in NMCA 1997. Won NSCA championships in 1998 and 2000, finished 4th in 1999. During this time the line lock button was on the steering wheel. With 5 turns lock to lock the cable would get tangled up. So I added phone jack at the lower dash and wheel. When I staged I'd plug the cable in. At the end of the track I'd yank it out and let it lie on the floor. There started to be delay box rumors, which we encouraged. My son was set to graduate from High School on a Friday before a NSCA race at Virginia Motorsports park. So a buddy towed my car there, we came after the H.S. all night party. On Saturday I asked if he got the car teched? He said yes but they spent 45 minutes looking it over. Finally he asked what they were looking for. They told him a delay box. He laughed. Told them they'd never find it. As I kept it in my jacket. Oh did that start the rumors. We really got into some people's heads. And yes my current car has been scrutinized more than once at NMCA.
Doug
Love this kind of stuff! lol. I mostly ran Super Street and without ANY electronics and did pretty good but that was in the early mid 80's when the electronics stuff was just getting a foot hold in the class around here and the rest of my time was spent just running ET brackets. I loved the guys that did all the smack talk trying to piss one another off while in the staging lanes then throw it back at them just before the run by taking my sweet time with the burnout unless it was slow enough to not need to then I'd drive around the water and go click on the top bulb and wait the allotted time to fully stage once they fully staged. Hard to beat a slow but very consistent car when their tires are getting cold and watching me drive off. Not really cheating but not gentleman like but it stopped them from trying their bs with me in the staging lanes but that still didn't bother me when someone tried. One time it started out on the street at a traffic light on the way home from the track one night. He laughed at my car and then I left on him when when the light turned green. Oh he was much faster but I put two cars on him before he could gather it up and then a week later he was at the track....and he got put out by yours truly! He was one pissed off guy but he never laughed at my car again :D Never did care for the Mustang guys anyways lol
 
I wouldn't call it cheating but we enter some nostalgia races where we have to look period correct ('64) and they go so far as you having to submit pics to be approved. I do my best to disguise modern tech and it sometimes takes some foolery. I upgraded to Viking Crusaders this year and the aluminum bodies on the shocks would stick out like a sore thumb. The solution? I found some 2" shrink tube and fit it over the shock bodies...

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I wouldn't call it cheating but we enter some nostalgia races where we have to look period correct ('64) and they go so far as you having to submit pics to be approved. I do my best to disguise modern tech and it sometimes takes some foolery. I upgraded to Viking Crusaders this year and the aluminum bodies on the shocks would stick out like a sore thumb. The solution? I found some 2" shrink tube and fit it over the shock bodies...

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I took a similar approach with my Vikings and simply painted them matte black. To the naked eye, they remove themselves from scrutiny.
 
Fred the original owner of MAX had taken the bigger 3705 AFBs and ground off the numbers and stamped the numbers of the correct carbs, 3447, to get past the tech guys!
 
I've seen a guy who is the master at changing casting numbers. We he's done they are perfect even with no paint on them.
Doug
 
Fred the original owner of MAX had taken the bigger 3705 AFBs and ground off the numbers and stamped the numbers of the correct carbs, 3447, to get past the tech guys!
Well, I was racing a 63 426 Max Wedge in 1963 with 3705 carbs and the motors that were SUPPOSED to have 3447's, the tech inspectors would just open the throttle bellcrank and look down into the carb to see if the carb had 4 BIG THROTTLE PLATES (3705'S) or little ones (3447's) ... problem solved without looking for carb numbers...One of my best friends was an NHRA tech line inspector and they knew most of the tricks the guys were playing...and there were a lot of them...
 
The one guy I knew said they would show up with 2 sets of carbs and ask which ones were legal today!
 
Well, I was racing a 63 426 Max Wedge in 1963 with 3705 carbs and the motors that were SUPPOSED to have 3447's, the tech inspectors would just open the throttle bellcrank and look down into the carb to see if the carb had 4 BIG THROTTLE PLATES (3705'S) or little ones (3447's) ... problem solved without looking for carb numbers...One of my best friends was an NHRA tech line inspector and they knew most of the tricks the guys were playing...and there were a lot of them...

I recall seeing a '64 Dodge rear bumper on a '63. BIG difference in weight and size. One racer told me they would put the later K-frames in the early B's to move the engine back in the chassis until another racer ratted then out to a tech inspector.
 
Sure as heck doesn't look like a 68 Chevy to me. I love race cars. GREAT IS GREAT and if that isn't GREAT, enough GREAT IS GREATER. But, this self-proclaimed expert has no credibility if he cannot tell a 66 or 67 Chevy from a 68. What a weenie! I could only listen to this smacked *** for only a few minutes until my head was about to explode. I want some of the Smokey Yunicks he's smoking.
 
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