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Re: 1999 Cobra Autox Classification

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Subject: Re: 1999 Cobra Autox Classification
From: Walter Fooshee <wfooshee@csi.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:46:02 -0600
The same platform doesn't make them comparable cars...  Witness the
Dodge minivan and the Aires/Reliant, not to mention the Daytona. Same
platform (K-car). Should they be classed together? As to the Stealth and
the Mitsubishi...  They ARE the same car, different equipment.

A little off the beaten path of Nustang IRS in F-Stock.  The question is
not whether to move it because it has IRS, the question is whether to
move it because IRS makes it too much better of a car.

Walter Fooshee
Dixie Region Probe GT


Carl Couric wrote:
> 
> At 07:51 PM 1/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 11:10 AM 1/7/99, Carl Couric wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I would like to remind the "board" that the T-Bird with IRS is already
> >>allowed in FS.
> >
> >and it weighs ... how much more???  It's wheelbase is  ... how much
> >longer???
> 
> Hello, MCFLY... Its a FOX box... Ford used the same platform on the
> T-Bird as it did on the Mustang... As to weight, the T-Bird has bit more
> but its a better balance. We use to have a guy race one in F-Stock
> and ran really good. He then switched to a X-COP LTD and did even
> better...
> 
> >  And the torque/hp numbers are ... what again??? What???
> >massively LESS than the 99 Cobra???
> 
> The older T-Birds matched the Mustang back in 91/92/93. My Point is, they
> already have allowed a IRS car into F-Stock. I am defending against "Lets
> move it to X-Stock because it has IRS" (where X = Super or A).
> 
> >> Just because no one raced them at Nationals is not a reason
> >>to kill the Mustang with IRS.
> >
> >Uhhh, Carl ... I don't know how to tell you this ... but they are NOT the
> >same car.
> 
> Same platform, same parts, different body styles. True, they are not the
> same car, but from the same argument nether was the Dodge Stealth the
> same car as a Mitisubishi VR4.
> 
> >Jim Rohn
> >feeling fiesty today :-)
> 
> I really don't care, I run CP/ESP. I'd just use it for wheel chock (no,
> that's what a miata is for <grin>).
> 
> feeling fiesty today as well <grin>.
> Carl
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