Then let the proposal stand on it's merit - ask for an allowance to drill
holes to allow shock adjustment. That seems more straightforward than
trying to leverage the C&C rule to put faux speakers in, then remove them
to adjust the shocks.
KeS
>From: Smokerbros@aol.com
>Reply-To: Smokerbros@aol.com
>To: msirota@isc.upenn.edu, ottocrosser@hotmail.com
>CC: autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: (insert location) Shock Access for (insert car)
>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:36:08 EDT
>
>In a message dated 8/18/2000 11:39:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>msirota@isc.upenn.edu writes:
>
><< Is it a performance advantage? Yes, it can be. Some cars just have
> some weaknesses, and access to the top of the shock towers might just
> be one of those weaknesses. If that means that you can't make
> adjustments between runs on that car, that's part of the design of that
> car. There's nothing in the rulebook that says that you're allowed to
> change that. >>
>
>I maintain that:
>1) it equalizes cars that can't make the adjustment without the hole to
>those
>that can.
>2) it's comfort and convenience to not have to A) either drive around
>every
>day on your autocross settings or B) take things apart before and after the
>autocross.
>
>I do accept that making adjustments between runs is an advantage, but when
>I
>ran C/S in my RX-7 I had to run against Miatae and MR-2s that can adjust
>shocks without panel removal. Didn't seem fair, until I was given the
>"tweeter" idea...
>
>CHD
>
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