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RE: Stock class for Firehawk

To: "'Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com'" <Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com>,
Subject: RE: Stock class for Firehawk
From: "Stevens, Kevin" <kstevens@ventritex.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:31:26 -0800
> These cars (SS, WS6, and Supra TT) are a couple of cars that 'cheat the
> classifications' in my mind.  ESP has a softer factor than SS (.830 vs
> .822).  This would allow you to take one, add all the SP goodies and go to
> a better PAX class...if I had an SS, WS6 or Supra in stock form, I would
> be
> running it in ESP locally.  Problem with the stock classing or the SP
> classing?  I think both in some cases.
> 
> AB
> 
The f-bodies aren't a problem in SP - they have essentially the same types
of modifications from the factory that would be allowed in ESP anyway, and
fit right in.  I view them as being conservatively classed in Stock, more or
less to "push" them to SP.

I've been saying the Supra was mis-classed in ESP for four years, and am
glad to see people taking advantage of the loophole.  It looks in the
rulebook as though the classification was created for the older-gen Supra
Turbo, and simply never updated when a more capable car with the same model
name was introduced.

KeS


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