On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Chip Bond wrote:
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> And their attitudes towards the traditional older sports cars are less than
> you may expect. My request to the comp board to allow any available
> differential and axle assembly citing non existant spares was denied. Their
> reason was that suitable assemblies are "available". The unoffical version,
> acording to a member of the comp board that I know personally, was that
> they let the Jensen-Healey have any rear end in 1995 and he won EP! Guess
> they want to make sure nothing like that happens again...
Perish the thought! A non-Mazda winning EP? How can they let that happen?
;-)
FWIW, maybe at the next Runoffs we could get a "real engineer" to explain
the problems of metal fatigue on cars that are more than 30 years old. Also,
a picture of one of the "rolling TR's" or possibly a picture of one of
the X racers after a "big incident" might carry some weight. And try to
leverage the safety aspect, because that's what it really is. It's not
like you're trying to lighten your car, although having a number of
rear-end ratios availble would be a very good thing - and the old Ford 9
inch is relatively cost effective... compared to finding a good 4.10 big
TR ring/pinion...
And don't forget to use the "BMW" aspect - seeing that BMW owns the
Triumph trademark. Just a thought.
rml
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