Okay Dennis. I've been an interested and amused lurker on this thread, until
now.
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION - Don't get caught up on what you have done or not done
with regards to update/backdate - Why should the DSMs be allowed to
update/backdate across the different body styles? Do you propose that when the
new Eclipse comes out later this summer that you can update/backdate to that
as well?
Otherwise, perhaps F-Body and Mustang owners should petition that they can
update and backdate across the different generations. Just think about the
potential of a third-gen or fourth gen F-Body with a 3.70 rear gear and a LS1
engine!
Al Chan
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> From: dg50@chrysler.com[SMTP:dg50@chrysler.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 1:36 PM
> To: Joshua Hadler
> Cc: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Turbo guys get screwed again
>
>
>
>
> > But change the way the cars are listed. Right now the DSMs are listed as
> > a single line entry. Why not break up the listings so that 1st and 2nd
> > gen DSMs are listed on different lines? That achieves the same results.
>
> Oh, sure. Take away EVERYTHING ELSE I (and other DSM owners) may have
> updated or
> backdated too.
>
> The prevailing attitude may be that the DSMs are new on the scene, but that
> is
> NOT the case. These cars have been around for a while, and their owners have
> been happily modifying, updating, and backdating - LEGALLY - for at least 4
> years. And now you want to tell these guys "Whoops! Sorry! Illegal now!"
> because
> a couple of people are suddenly doing OK - not "dominating" or "winning",
> but at
> least not stuck in the back?
>
> There's a message to send to club members "Do as well as you can, but don't
> start winning in a different car than was has in the past, or we'll take it
> away
> from you!"
>
> >Ideas? Anyone?
>
> Yes, a very simple one. LEAVE THE RULES ALONE, AS THEY EXIST TODAY. If the
> SEB
> is _really_ that worried about an interpretation of the current rules
> allowing
> turbos to be added to non-turbocharged cars, then WRITE A RULE THAT
> EXPLICITLY
> FORBIDS PUTTING TURBOS ON ENGINES THAT WERE NOT AVAILABLE WITH FACTORY
> TURBOS.
>
> This does not have to be difficult, or to inconvience anyone in any way.
> Nobody
> _has_ to get screwed.
>
> DG
>
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