Gene, this is very good dialog!!!
Commercially available I think is the key, I don't think you want home brewed
shocks...
If a guy has a set of really trick looking shocks, and he backs it up with
paperwork that looks bogus, then you as the competitor can protest him, and he
would have to prove that those shocks were purchased for that price and ANYBODY
could buy them from that company for that price.
Do you see any loophole in that?
CR
Aglet Racing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Limit? And just how could that be enforced? As I've said before, one of
the things I do in real life is write ordinances and we NEVER put a rule in
unless we already know how to enforce it. Are you confident that someone
who can get bespoke shocks made from unobtanium with super-duper magic
springs won't be able to back up the "purchase" price with bogus documents?
Or just lie straight to impound that he made them himself and the raw
material cost was under the limit?
I don't think the safety argument is a good way to go with the CRB and BOD.
If you can convince them that the cars are unsafe without the rule change,
the easiest way for them to address the concern is to shut down the class as
"too unsafe to race." That has the added benefit to them of one less class
to bounce from the Runoffs. Besides, if shocks would prevent suspension
failure, none of the other formula classes would ever have a suspension
break...
Gene near Seattle
On 10/25/06, Chris Reinhardt wrote:
>
> Jim, cost is definetly a concern, but i don't think a "spec" shock is the
> answer.
> It will more expensive to redesign the car around a spec shock than it
> would be to design a shock around a car. There's too many different cars,
> and different suspensions within those cars, to make one shock work. Add to
> that pulling shocks off your car, and having dyno'd going through tech.
> Limit what a person can spend on each boinger, and I think that will
> cover it.
>
> CR
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