Dennis wrote...
> Revisions Made:
>
> - Bump displacement limit to 3.200l
> - Expand engine swap language to allow "corporate family" engines.
> - Re-enforce language that engine mods are indeed unlimited
There needs to be some consideration in the rules for changing
corporate families. Scott Mitchell already mentioned this, but I haven't
seen it addressed. If I swap a VW VR6 into a Skoda, and then Skoda is
sold to Honda, is my car legal? When does it become illegal? Does it
depend on *when* I did the swap? How do you protest that?
Or alternately, a swap is legal between any two companies that have
ever been part of the same corporate family. Wow, is that a nightmare.
( I think the hot ticket a 3L Ferrari F1 motor in a Fiat Uno ;)
And, since engine modifications are 'unlimited', all you are doing is
restricting the original of the block. That doesn't seem to be worth all
the hassle, so I recommend dropping the 'corporate' language entirely.
> - On this being a "forced induction required" class: Yup, sure looks
> like that, don't it? Now go read the rules for STU as they exist in the
> back of the '99 rulebook. Say, that looks like a "forced induction
> required" class too, doesn't it? In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say
> that _these new rules don't change the essence of what STU is, based on
> the existing rules_. Neat trick huh?
Without trying to be antagonistic, this doesn't sound like the same guy
who has been calling new-STU an 'inclusive' and 'permissive' class.
I don't see a downside to forced induction displacement factor.
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