Chuck, I think you are right. I used to have a great working relationship with Penske when I was in Ford Racin. Just befor the Runoffs I got in touch with them & they sent me a great little shock that they make for small race cars. Long story short, I will post a picture on the F500 website. The shock is available retail for $189 inclding a spring. I am trying to get them to work out a deal to get this off the ground at a lower cost.
This could be the real difference to help us make F500s "real race cars" for a very low cost. I will post the picture in the next couple of days. Thanks ... Jay Novak -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Voboril Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [F500] Pucks again Why not go for the "real" thing and ask for damping as well as springs. Low cost is NOT undamped rubber pucks when you consider frame and body damage. In the long run, easier to tune by every racer and every race prep shop out there. Should the knowledge of all the little tricks to make rubber pucks kinda work be in the hands of a gifted few? Geez, Formula Vee is supposed to be low cost and they all have at least low end Penske's on them. I see retaining rubber pucks as just a cheap way to get new cars out the door by the F500 mfg. Every autocrosser of a stock or street prepared car knows the value of good shocks on their cars. No wonder they sneer at the rubber pucks in a F500. "Not a real race car" comes to the lips. Chuck >From: "edward capullo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [F500] Pucks again >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:25:39 -0400 > >You all may remember that I had mentioned that I would see both Q and Bob >Introne at the final NARRC event at Lime Rock and would clarify Q's feeling >about the pucks and also question Bob about the BOD rejection of the CRB >recs. I never saw Q as I don't think he came up for the weekend. However I >did have a lengthy and informative conversation with Bob. It appears that >1) the BOD never saw any info on our survey that Joe Palmer moderated. 2) >he said a member of the board ( I think he said from SanFran) was not in >favor of the proposal as he felt it would increase the costs and not be in >the spirit of keeping F500 a low cost class 3) they did get a letter from a >mfg and also from several members of the Dallas region? objecting...but the >two most important things he said was that A) the CRB never "fought" for >the changes and that B) it was his feeling that if the proposal came up >again at the Dec meeting it might be approved!! >I guess the ball is in our lap again. Another thing he told me that I found >interesting was that he feels the BOD should oversee the business functions >of the SCCA and leave the rules changes to the CRB >Ed Capullo ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
