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Originally Posted by Dean
They can't ban them, but they can ban external resevoir, and any external adjustment that is not OE.
You can also require that they be sealed non-rebuildable shocks unless the OE were otherwise. That would eliminate all but the most die hard would be cheat. Yes, sombody could carry 10 sets of sealed differently valved schocks, but you couldn't change those between runs like you can a set screw of some form.
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Good ideas. I guess something along the lines of "shocks must be of the same basic design" would be a good rule. Kinda like STX's rule for suspension that states you can use any struts/springs as long as they're the same layout as stock. The current rules sound like yet another hold over from the fact the rules are so old... I'd guess when they made the rules, no one ever ran adjustable or remote resevoir shocks.
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i think Stock should be as close o the way they rolled off the assemply line as possible, including that it should be a street tire class.
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Street Tire for stock class would be a great idea, but considering how tight the competition is, and how arbitrary the wear ratings are, it really wouldn't save anyone money at the higher levels of stock competition. Nationals would be full of cars running $300/tire Eagle F1's and the like. Granted they'd last longer than a set of Hoosiers, they'd still cost as much and would be slower. I think for simplicity sake, SCCA decided to make the stock tire spec simply "DOT Approved".
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Powere to weight would be a great method, but who has a portable 4 wheel Dyno to bring to Tech?
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When I mentioned power to weight, I was actually talking about the rules for the Modified classes that specify displacement vs. weight. Actually limiting power would be way expensive as you'd have to do random dyno sampling like Spec Miata does.
The one thing that doesn't make sence to me about stock is the front swaybar rule. I guess the reasoning is that so many cars come setup to push for saftey purposes that it kinda makes sense to allow a front bar to dial that out... but doesn't that go against the idea of "stock"... shouldn't you have just purchased a car that doesn't understeer so bad? And why just the front swaybar, why not the rear, or both?