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Re: Electric Autocrossing

To: Paul Cezanne <oblique@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Electric Autocrossing
From: Mark R Jahnke <mjahnke@students.depaul.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:55:04 -0500 (CDT)
What about the Honda Insight?  Is that a legal car to run?

mJ

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Paul Cezanne wrote:

> At 1:19 PM -0500 6/15/00, Steven N. Burkett wrote:
> >
> >I'm considering converting my '84 RX-7 to electric.  What class would I
> >run in?  It appears that NO class would allow me (not even mod).  Has
> >anyone ever autocrossed an electric?
> 
> A local driver in NER considered building an electric A-Mod car about 
> 5 years back.  He figured that he could run off of about 4 car 
> batteries for 90 seconds or something like that.  He woud then switch 
> to fresh batteries for the next run.
> 
> He saw in the rules about fuels and an electric car appeared to be 
> illegal.  He wrote the SEB and got permission to do it.
> 
> Alas, soon after his sponsors bailed and the free DSR chassis never 
> showed up and the project was sadly shelved.
> -- 
> pZ -- Paul Cezanne (formerly Czarnecki)
> 
> Please consider buying my wife's new book, The Illusionist, 
> (http://www.JeannetteAngell.com) and then help the UN feed the world 
> for free @ http://www.TheHungerSite.com
> 


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