We know Tommy's car has the aluminium head.
My car has usually run about 20 over and I've been just out of the trophies :-(
I know Mark Sirota runs very close to min weight.
Standing by the scales this year at Nationals it seemed like most cars were a
comfortable margin over (low teens were common). I don't think many were more
than 30 over.
Greg Vincent
CM 27
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Rasmussen" <rasmussend@mindspring.com>
To: <autox-cm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: 30 Pounds
> Thanks to Mark for your input.
>
> Question:
>
> Mark mentioned the following FF2000 proposal:
>
> > In Solo II, the S2000 still competes at the old weight of 1280#, so it
> > would have a
> >30# advantage over the wingless FF2000.
>
> Personally I'm not impressed with 30# being much of a performance
> disadvantage for our cars for autocrossing.
>
> Why? Because "low budget, medium talent, no second driver, little old me"
> has consistently trophied at Nationals with a car that weighs in somewhere
> between 1120 and 1130.
>
> How many of the rest of you run "really close" to the minimum weight? I'm
> sure Gary G does but what about others?
>
> Also, what about the new aluminum head? Which of the top cars had it since
> theoretically weight placement could be a significant advantage?
>
>
> Dick Rasmussen
> CM 85
> 85 Van Diemen FF
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