According to our rules, you must prepare the car to the production car regs
of the year the car was produced. So if you have a 59 bugeye, you can only
do things that were available in 59. What this means, in practice, is that
you run the 948 engine, use period speed equipment or modern equivalents,
use the suspension that came on the car, with stiffer shocks, springs,
bushings, etc. No 'Improved Production" mod's is actually one of the rules,
although Alexander heads are listed as allowed in another rule.
Go figger...I just build my cars the way I want to, which seems to not
offend any one, but doesn't actually meet the rules either. It's my
contention that 9 out of 10 VARAC production cars either bend or break at
least one rule somewhere, in spirit or in fact. So I don't worry about it!
Brian
At 11:03 AM 21/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Brian,
>
>When we ran a Bugeye in the mid/late sixties we ran in the CASC "improved
>production" class. This meant Alexander Cross flow head, Webers etc. If I
>remember correctly, it also meant we could have used a 1275 engine and disk
>brakes from later Spridigits. Is there a Vintage equivalent class?
>
>Just curious.....
>Ken Lee Oakville Ontario
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>> >> 6. Aftermarket heads and blocks
>> >
>> >Please, no, not in the old prod car group. I feel guilty enough with my
>> >carillo rods.
>>
>> Even the rods are OK in my book - most everybody could have run them or
>> their equivalent even in the mid - late fifties. And rods, cranks, etc,
>are
>> a legitimate fatigue life wear item, in my book. Later blocks and heads
>are
>> ok only if they are functionally identical to the early ones. And I
>really
>> mean identical!
>> >
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