In a message dated 30/11/00 12:24:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
S800Racer@aol.com writes:
> I prefer more restrictive carburetor rules as per the SCCA PCS
> specifications. It helps to maintain some balance between various cars
> within the same class.
> Bigger carbs are not a "safety item" and I don't have sympathy with the
> argument that Webers are cheaper or easier to find since carbs generally do
>
Cheaper and easier shouldn't enter into it (you are far better off to rebuild
your SUs yourself in any case).
Should cars be limited to what they could or could not use in a particular
class at a specific time? If so, what do you do with the 215 powered Sprite,
that was built that way from the early 60s, or the MGB with crossflow and
Webers that raced that way, albeit having to run in a sports racing class
rather than a production class because of it? Tough decisions.
If you have a TR3 that has a Judson supercharger on it (assuming anyone is
crazy enough to want to race it that way), a nice period go-fast goodie, do
you have to prove that that very car had that installed on it from some early
date, or just that they were available for them in the specified period?
And how early must that car have run that way? Assuming that it had been
purchased as a 10 year old car and turned into a race car (pretty common
scenario in club racing), you would have a 1962 car that didn't turn a wheel
in competition until maybe 1972, but then served faithfully for a decade or
two in the same configuration.
Do you tell that guy, possibly the owner of a well remembered local race car
that he has to modify his car to a condition in which it never raced?
Want another tough one to add to the 215 powered bugeye? How about the D type
that ran at Westwood, fitted with a big block Chev motor (I believe after the
Jag motor went south, figuratively speaking). It ran A sports racing, in the
60s, just before I got involved, but was apparently a sight to see (and
hear). Would that be allowed to run in most organisations, or not.
(See how I love to posit hard cases without even trying to answer them? Much
more fun than being the poor organiser that actually has to make these
decisions).
Bill Spohn
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