On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:21:34AM -0700, Allendorfer, Peter wrote:
> Got a quick question. Have you ever changed the shocks on the front of a
> street miata? In a parking lot? With Dwindling light? And, what is the
> MR2 owner that now has them supposed to do with them? Suspend his coffee
> table with 'em?
2nd question first: eBay.
1st question: I see that as the problem of the person who made the
decision to run shocks that were worth claiming. I'm sure that the
MR-2 owner who is about to own $2000 Miata shocks by paying $500 would
be happy to assist with the removal.
> Claiming only works when its in a class of all the same cars. The Before
> mentioned oval car classes, i.e. Grand-ams and DIRT cars all have the same
> engines. The engine is the only claimable part of the car. $800 for an
> engine. That's not too bad for a Chevy Small block. These are dedicated
> race cars, and the swap takes an hour or so (I assisted with a couple. I
> like to hang out in the pits at the Antioch 1/4 mile) Funny thing is, next
> week, the person that claimed a motor usually blows it up, or goes much
> slower because he's got the wrong gearing, or is just not as good as the
> other guy.
>
> The moral of the story, You will not get a claimer class off the ground
> unless you have a spec class and only allow one part of the car to be
> claimed. And if you go that far, you might as well have a black-box class.
> (Can anybody say Spec Racer Ford????) Everything is sealed, you must buy
> from approved vendors.
>
> Have fun making this work in auto-x, I won't be competing in it.
>
> -Peter Allendorfer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John J. Stimson-III
> To: Kevin Stevens
> Cc: Mark J. Andy; Smokerbros@aol.com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Sent: 7/9/01 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Stock Classes (was: Cheap Gas)
>
> > I don't see how all this machination achieves its goal; it just seems
> like a
> > communist way (from each according to his means...) way of everyone
> getting
> > good shocks, rather than paying for their own.
>
> It's not Communistic, but rather, charitable in a capitalist way --
> the supplier of the shocks does so voluntarily, to achieve a benefit
> for himself. He can stop selling used shocks at discount at any time
> that he feels that it is no longer a benefit.
>
> Yes, it would be annoying to swap the same set of shocks backs and
> forth at every event between the class leaders. With luck, one of
> them will become fed up with the practice, get a clue, and sell the
> shocks on eBay, showing up at the next event with more reasonably
> priced shocks.
>
> --
>
> john@idsfa.net John Stimson
> http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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