Hi Jim,
But before FM the FV's were slowly changing little by little into SoloV's.
My friend had just built a very nice 1200cc engine when they changed to the
1600cc dual port. They were still using the stock VW wheels just like in
Road Racing. Running a GCR legal FV in Solo is a lot of fun because you are
rewarded if you a very smooth! At one point I should have joined them by
buying a FV from another friend before he moved, but I didn't. They should
have pushed for a Solo FV Class just for GCR legal FV's! I think it would
be one of the biggest classes like CM is today. But they didn't, everyone
went down the road of having 8" front rims and 10" rear rims. Then you run
into the problems of going faster with brakes that are hard to keep
adjusted. The thing that got me out FV/SoloV was doing the special trans
instead of using the short box. Bought my F440 for just a little more than
the transaxle would have cost. Also, I have been told by one of the best VW
guys in NE that with the SoloV rules a legal motor should only make about
115hp. But I have been told that one in my area puts out about 125hp. My
point was and is that everything below AM would be best to be GCR legal
Sports or Formula Cars even if a new class (GM for FV) was started! I would
give them disc brakes, maybe. But no way limited slip diff or anymore
weight advantage!
Jim I will send you a picture of what an early Solo V looked like in the
70d's when I find it and scan it into my pc!
BobbyJ
#5 Fmod NER SCCA
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Subject: [F500] A Little Additional History and an Equity Proposal
Bobby,
As one of the writers of the rules that established F Mod as a budget
class, we based this class on BOTH the F440/500's AND the SV's while the
FV's were the actual afterthought as they were deemed noncompetitive.
Most of our time was spent writing the SV part of the rules as we just
said that the F440/500's had to be GCR legal. Later, we found out that
there was a loophole in that the lighter Solo legal roll bar and chassis
stucture could also be used - examples of this are the Dave Phaneuf and
Art Trier cars. Our prime directive was and is the equity in HP/weight
ratio of 10 lbs per HP between the F440/500's and the SV. This resulted
in the SV engine allowances that would provide an output of roughly 100 HP
for their 1,000 lb minimum weight. The AMW was the 500cc motor back then
and produced with a good pipe about 80 hp, so 800 lbs was a good minimum
weight.
Now the 494 with a good pipe produces around 90 hp so do we raise the F500
weight up to 900 lbs to be true to the prime directive of 10 lbs per HP?
I propose that weight changes be used to bring equity back between the
SV's and the F440/500's because it is the cheapest method of doing this
and F Mod IS a budget class.
Jim
Been messing with these cars since 1982
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