Do you really think that any of us could create a class in which our own car
was not dominant? We are all competitve people hence our interest in the
sport. Vested self interest is the realm of the competitive person.
Regards,
Alan "I propose a class for Targa style 2 seaters under 1.6 liters" Pozner
'93 ES delSol
On Thursday, July 15, 1999 5:05 PM, Rick Cone [SMTP:conekiller@cwix.com]
wrote:
> > That's a good point mark. It does seem that this is evolving into a
> >class for cars that run over 1bar. The way it's laid out now, you kinda
> >gotta have a blower or a turbo if you're going to compete.
>
> My point exactly.... And all wheel drive to put all the power down. This
> seems like an Eagle Talon dominatrix class with a bunch of other cars
> allowed in to make it an SCCA class. If you are going through this much
> trouble why not find away to allow 2 seeters? With the rules you have now
> do you really think a 1.8 litre Miata or 1.6 litre MR2 is going to
dominate?
> The Fiero? Why the exclusion when you are trying to be inclusive with
such
> a broad range of vehicles?
>
> Rick Cone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Hadler <jhadler@rmi.net>
> To: Mark J. Andy <marka@telerama.com>
> Cc: autox mailing list <autox@autox.team.net>; Dennis Grant
> <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: STU Displacement Limit - An Idea
>
>
> >"Mark J. Andy" wrote:
> >>
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 dg50@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> >> > STU displacement limits are as follows:
> >> > - for overhead camshaft engines - 3.000 litres
> >> > - for pushrod valvetrain engines - 4.000 litres
> >> > - for rotory (wankel) engines - 1.500 litres
> >>
> >> Given no displacement breaks for NA motors, we could call this class
FIM
> >> for "Forced Induction Mod"... :-) (that's a good thing, btw. A class
> for
> >> modified streetable cars with forced induction seems to currently be
> >> lacking).
> >
> > That's a good point mark. It does seem that this is evolving into a
> >class for cars that run over 1bar. The way it's laid out now, you kinda
> >gotta have a blower or a turbo if you're going to compete.
> >
> >-Josh2
> >
> >--
> >Joshua Hadler '74 914 2.0 CSP/Bi - Hooligan Racing #29 - CONIVOR
> > '87 Quantum Syncro - aka stealth quattro
> >
> >jhadler@rmi.net
> >http://rainbow.rmi.net/~jhadler/
> >
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