Group:
Today I exchanged a number of e-mails with Carl Braun of VSCDA who has
taken on the tough and thankless job of making the cars legal as to
displacement, brakes and weight.
I have a Ford powered Elva Courier that has been a wonderful mid-pac car
in Group 2. This coming race season VSCDA wants everyone to come clean
and declare what there cars have for displacement, weight and brakes. To
see what the goal is VSCDA put up a list based on old SCCA GCR lists.
See it at: http://www.vscda.org/CarPrep/GCRcarSpecs06E.pdf.
Most specs seem very reasonable to me except for my Elva Courier.The
list states that I can run rear disc brakes but that I must be heaver
than the MG powered Couriers. My car came with the lighter Ford motor
and a lighter solid axle.
Dose any one have the history of how the SCCA specs were developed? I
have heard stories of SCCA favoring one car or another but I would like
to know where the weight specs came from.
Rich Stadther
St Paul MN
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