Costs associated with pucks? Grade 8 bolts and rod ends are more expensive than pucks!!! Will we just weld everthing together?
----- Original Message ---- From: edward capullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:00:19 PM Subject: Re: [F500] Pucks again Chris I do not believe you will have to worry about this as the impression I got from speaking with Bob is that they still want to keep this a low budget class and one director had already objected to just the costs associated with pucks. I can see what the reaction would be to a proposal to go to spring/shock combinations... Ed Capullo >From: "Christopher Eveland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [F500] Pucks again >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:44:19 -0400 > >On 10/24/06, Chris Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think we already went through this but.... A inexpensive oil/spring >>shock is about the same price or less that the current puck/shock >>assemble. And ANY oil dampened shock would be better than none. > >OK, I'm just a newbie here that doesn't even have an F500 yet, but >I'll throw in my $0.000002 just because this gets at _why_ I'm a >newbie here. I'm coming from stock class autox to F500/club racing, >and I have to say that the 2nd* most frustrating thing about running >stock class autox is the price of the shocks you need to be >competitive: about $3500. Thats why I co-drove at Nationals, rather >than take my own car. > >If any shock rule is going to get proposed, they've _got_ to do better >than they have for the solo2 stock rules. > >-Chris > >* #1 most frustrating is that you need a new car every 2-3 years. :P _______________________________________________ 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! *** ________________________________ 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! ***
