- 1. Re: Course Designs (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:20:26 -0800 (PST)
- Nice to see somebody in the same camp as yours truly, though I accept that there may be no "right" answer here, only opinion. Somewhere in the rule book it says something to the effect that course n
- /html/autox/1999-03/msg00350.html (8,563 bytes)
- 2. Re: SP rules on catalytic converters (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:53:14 -0800 (PST)
- I think you're probably reading more into that word than is there. The item simply refers to cars that seem to be legal. The reason for publication of this item is probably to elicit calm, fact-base
- /html/autox/1999-03/msg01192.html (10,840 bytes)
- 3. Re: Course Speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:08:43 -0800 (PST)
- Here's what I was told (if somebody knows otherwise, please pass the info along): Our ability obtain coverage, and the insurance rates we pay, are based largely upon the perceived risk level of what
- /html/autox/1999-03/msg01875.html (8,356 bytes)
- 4. RE: DM & EM minimum weights (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:32:13 -0800 (PST)
- Bill Schmidt (I think) said, without any line breaks: Me: "If you build it, they will come" has long been an argument posed by those who would like a class "made over" to provide more competitiveness
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg00351.html (12,295 bytes)
- 5. RE: Loti in all classes, corrected data (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:27:58 -0800 (PST)
- Let's try that math again: 1470 lbs / 170HP = 8.6471 lbs/HP for Lotus. 1900 lbs / 8.6471 = 219.7 HP for what the Fiero theoretically needs. Yes, overall weight is a factor too. But let's try to be a
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg00377.html (9,583 bytes)
- 6. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:20:57 -0800 (PST)
- That may have been done, but the authority for doing such a thing really only rests with the SEB. The line between "reasonable" reading of the rules and "tortured interpretation" usually falls in th
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01073.html (11,933 bytes)
- 7. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:53:10 -0800 (PST)
- Yep; if someone comes up with better/alternative/conflicting information, would you want the SEB to stand by a ruling which in reality permits a configuration which is actually illegal? It's the comp
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01086.html (17,811 bytes)
- 8. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:04:01 -0800 (PST)
- That's probably a good point, but how do you allow someone to substitute something in more or less unlimited ways, and yet restrict them to using it for its intended purpose? What filtering action i
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01095.html (13,309 bytes)
- 9. Fieros & Mr2's (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:33:35 -0800 (PST)
- Doug Chase: This is a scary commentary on the reality of Fieros. I think I still had the overkill bar on the front when you drove it. I can't imagine putting up with worse. You need to get some rides
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01099.html (6,744 bytes)
- 10. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:39:42 -0800 (PST)
- Good technical info, I didn't know that. I'd bet a set of (used) Hoosiers they aren't. SP is generally seen as a perfectly reasonable domain for old, cheap-to-build cars. KCB
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01100.html (8,951 bytes)
- 11. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:37:44 -0800 (PST)
- As a whole, yes. But the SP rules don't address the entire "fuel supply system" as being "unrestricted". For example, they do not authorize a fuel tank swap, or a fuel cell. If the fuel line is desi
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01182.html (13,654 bytes)
- 12. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:00:10 -0800 (PST)
- Why? You start with the Stock rules, which permit the OEM configuration, and then you add the SP update/backdate rule at the front of Section 14, and then you go to the item-specific parts of the bo
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01183.html (12,224 bytes)
- 13. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:51:56 -0800 (PST)
- Johh Hadler: A "fuel cell" is not the same as an "alternate fuel tank", and this allowance has specific GCR connections, so there are safety requirements to meet which may not be all that optimum in
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01187.html (11,867 bytes)
- 14. Re: Non Autox Content. Marriage or Mud Wrestling (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:56:45 -0800 (PST)
- Hey, if I'm gonna 'rassle anyone it's got to be BOB. I usually agree with Jay... :-) Come to think of it, sometimes I agree with BOB too. Have to work on that consistency-of-politics thing. What, th
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01188.html (7,951 bytes)
- 15. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:09:39 -0800 (PST)
- Tell ya what; I'll acknowledge what they do say if you'll acknowledge what they don't. :-) Of course not; where did you get that? I was making an example of what would be a "safe" implementation. Sh
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01189.html (10,683 bytes)
- 16. Re: Non Autox Content. Marriage or Mud Wrestling (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:01:53 -0800 (PST)
- Roger NoSheep Johnson has a nice set of viewfoils, which I believe are available for Web viewing via Houston Region's web site (and somebody will be sending the URL, no doubt). Or SCCA can send them
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01193.html (8,997 bytes)
- 17. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:19:14 -0800 (PST)
- And you may be correct, so perhaps it's more realistic to simply write an allowance, rather than a prohibition. Go for it. How can there be? You say that there's a one-quart OEM filter unit on a VW.
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01200.html (11,730 bytes)
- 18. Re: sp changes in fast track (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:28:09 -0800 (PST)
- Ooooh, you're good. Watch out, somebody'll remember that next time the SPAC has an opening :-) KCB
- /html/autox/1999-02/msg01202.html (8,429 bytes)
- 19. Re: Spridgets in DP (score: 1)
- Author: "K.C. Babb" <kcb4286@hps13.iasl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:56:30 -0800 (PST)
- Y'all might want to back off a bit on making assumptions about people you don't know. Chris and Larry are fine folks, and Chris is a terrific driver. The car they now have was built by Bob King (of E
- /html/autox/1999-01/msg00183.html (7,784 bytes)
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