[Vintage-race] FIA Spridget and Webber Question

[charles christ]

so much for a big block chevy with injection mated to a transaxle midship in my saab?   LOL!  ;)  (we now posess 3 '60 saab 93F's!  look out next season!  *grin* )


SVRA group 1 official "greeter" car (evryone passes me at least once per track session)...LOL!   
chuck
'60 saab 93F #251

-----Original Message-----
>From: Stewart Smith <56887 at msn.com>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2007 11:39 AM
>To: JWoesvra <JWoesvra at aol.com>, dmeadow at juno.com, franks97 at verizon.net
>Cc: vintage-race at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] FIA Spridget and Webber Question
>
>I thought the FIA allowed any carb as long as it was fitted to the unaltered
>original manifold. There is always someone who knows of a Sprite that ran with
>twin Webers and eight port head, or that 1480 cc engine and 6" wide
>tires...... like the Spitfires and GT6's that run Webers because Triumph ran a
>GT6 with Webers in the Macau GP (honest according to Kastner that was it in
>1967?) which would make that an interesting car but doesn't grandfather Webers
>for all Spits and GT's. Out West here there is a 1967 cut off date in HMSA and
>CSRG and I know that CSRG tries to check cars for proper configuration when
>they join (they don't make guest cars toe the line ) but many good people will
>update their cars after their vehicles are accepted.
>
>The thought is that it's a gentleman's sport and gentlemen will not "update"
>and gentlemen won't complain. I always figured if your car wasn't raced at
>Lemans then maybe the SCCA guide lines should work? Or if you want to go
>faster find a different car? The only pain is self inflicted.
>
>Stewart Smith