{"id":20,"date":"2009-05-05T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/05\/05\/nhra-nitro-spec-engine\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T17:49:22","slug":"nhra-nitro-spec-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/05\/05\/nhra-nitro-spec-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA Nitro &#8216;Spec&#8217; Engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingonline.com\/burksblast\/xi_4-5.html\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Mandating another nitro \u2018spec\u2019 engine is a mistake!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> by Jeff Burk &#8211; Posted May 5, 2009<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Personal comment<\/span>: I have mixed emotions about this new &#8216;spec&#8217; engine being the answer. Burk is absolutely correct that the nitro cars must be quicker and faster than the alcohol cars or interest will dramatically wain. On the other side of the equation, insurance costs are driving up the fees to all competitors in NHRA not only because of the accidents in the fuel ranks, but in other categories that seemingly will never see a MPH restriction imposed by NHRA. Something must change!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Roger Young<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Related articles<\/span>:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog-mt\/2009\/02\/2009\/02\/2009\/02\/nhra_increases_membership_fees\/\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>NHRA Increases Membership Fees<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/update.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"10\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=10115&amp;Itemid=6\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>NHRA Spec Testing Update<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> &#8211; <em>Torco Racing Fuel&#8217;s Competition Plus.com<\/em> &#8211; May 29, 2009<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/update.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"10\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\/story\/2009\/11\/4\/nhra-competition-tech-departments-conduct-test-with-help-from-cruz-pedregon-racing\/\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>NHRA competition, tech departments conduct test with help from Cruz Pedregon Racing<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong> &#8211; <em>NHRA<\/em> &#8211; November 4, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/index.php\/drag-racing\/news\/14095-proposed-fuel-pump-change-has-the-nitro-pits-buzzing\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/update.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"10\" \/>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Proposed Fuel Pump Change Has The Nitro Pits Buzzing<\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span>&#8211; <em>Competition Plus.com<\/em> &#8211; May 3, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandating another nitro \u2018spec\u2019 engine is a mistake! by Jeff Burk &#8211; Posted May 5, 2009 Personal comment: I have mixed emotions about this new &#8216;spec&#8217; engine being the answer. Burk is absolutely correct that the nitro cars must be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/05\/05\/nhra-nitro-spec-engine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions","category-nhra-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}