In a message dated 7/9/01 6:23:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
marka@telerama.com writes:
> Its not an ideal world though, and front swaybars are relatively
> inexpensive.
Escept that some people have 3-4 bars @ a couple hundred dollars each. One
desirable F-body bar is $440.00
> I haven't seen good data that indicates that weight == cost for alternate
> wheels. If the goal is to keep costs down, I think this is a poor
> approach. And with CCW's and the like only costing $400/each max or so,
> we're again not talking about saving a heck of a lot of money.
I disagree, the lighter wheels almost always cost substantially more.
Besides, if there is no real advantage (weight), there is no incentive to
spend the big bucks.
> one of these are workable except maybe A), and that has the same problems
> as C). Limit the adjustments and now you've gotta spend more on re-valving
> / having alternate shocks. The only way you're gonna fix this is to have
> a claiming rule at divisionals and above, but without a series points
> championship it wouldn't work all that well IMHO.
Claiming is ugly and hard to make work. Even if you re-valve an allowed
shock, I doubt you'd be at $1500/corner on a Stock Miata (the price I've been
told Penskes cost)
> Agreed, as long as you can still get rubber lines or provide a way for
>
If you have a car with no rubber brake hoses available, I'm guessing you need
to buy another car.
CHD
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