> Rich I agree with you- everything was OK till you thought outside the box,
> found an area where you felt you could excell, and tromped the record by
> 61 mph (hats off on that by the way), but next thing you know, turbos are
> illegal. Instead of allowing everyone in the class to run turbos (which is
> how the rules were and no one persued it), you were forced to remove your
> turbos. This is the sort of thing my brother and I are talking about,
> we'll pull some radical idea out of the hat that no one had thought of or
> tried, and now we're forced to run comp coupe, or change the design of our
> car because one guy couldn't accept a radical idea. This is what we're
> trying to avoid. The flip side of that is there has been instances, where
> a rule was changed, and it just so happened the SCTA inspector, who ran in
> that class, had the modification on his car that this new rule allowed. I
> think it's great that the SCTA is open to new ideas as they come on the
> scene and that is why we chose to persue land speed racing as opposed to
> drag racing. But I'm fearful that it could also backfire, and cost me some
> money, or a record. The other problem, is that I've been told to check
> with the Tech inspectors before employing a radical new idea, and it's
> almost a case of asking them to say no to you. If I say hey, I have this
> radical idea I want to try, it's borderline, what do you think, typically
> they'll so no, But if I employ the idea, and show up at tech, argue the
> rule, that yes, this modification is in fact legal per the rules, they'll
> say ok, it's already in the car, we'll let it slide.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: V4GR@aol.com [SMTP:V4GR@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 1:03 PM
> To: dfergus@bactc.com
> Subject: Re: Altered Cars and Aerodynamics !
>
> In 1978 I came out with my 32 5 window coup running a 270 GMC and 2
> Corvair turbochargers. This car was built exactly to the rules. Everyone
> thought it was nice BUT turbos would not work on vintage engines. Others
> had
> tried it and it did not work. So the coup put 61mph on the existing
> record,
> which was only 97mph. Now if you look in the rule book you
>
> will see turbochargers are disallowed in vintage classes. They were OK
> until
> someone rocked the boat. Other things
> aren't
> in the rule book because no one thought of it until they saw it in line.
> Rules grow as new stuff shows up. Rich Fox
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