vintage-race
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: 1275s in Bugeyes

To: <dmeadow@juno.com>
Subject: Re: 1275s in Bugeyes
From: Doug Meis <s800racer@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:19:10 -0400
on 5/15/03 4:35 PM, dmeadow@juno.com at dmeadow@juno.com wrote:

> I understand your point, Doug, although "the wrong motor for the car" isn't
> really the rule.  In fact, you can race (and the SCCA allowed) any square-body
> spridget with a 1275, whether it came with one originally or not (early ones
> could have 998 or 1098).  The quarter-elliptic rear spring cars were never
> originally supplied with the 1275, but the SCCA found them too similar to the
> later half-elliptic to bother making a distinction.  Therefore, no one is
> contemplating rejecting 1275 quarter-elliptic spridgets, thankfully

    I have no problem at all with 1275 motors in square body sprites.
That's always been accepted by everyone including the SCCA 35 years ago.
 -- 
Doug Meis <s800racer@earthlink.net>

///  unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net  or try
///  http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo
///  Archives at http://www.team.net/archive/vintage-race


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>