David Shreve wrote:
> Okay, I have a friend who has a '99 Miata. He has installed the Racing Beat
> front sway bar and the tie bar that goes between the stock mounts and
> stiffens them. There is no drilling or other modification made to install
> the stiffening tie bar. This bar serves the sole purpose of stiffening the
> flimsy stock mounts.
>
> It is my understanding that under the rules both the mounts and the sway bar
> are open provided no modifications other that the drilling of holes is done.
> Thus, to me, it would seem that this is a legal addition. However, one of
> the local Miata drivers did not agree(but didn't press the issue). Anyone
> know whether this bar between the mounts is legal?
>
> It would seem to me that if the car came with no sway bar or mounts, it
> would be legal to drill holes and mount two sway bar mounts with a bar
> between them to siffen them. So it should be legal on a car that came with
> flimsy mounts, no??
>
> Please cc me or respond privately as I am on the digest and pretty slow
> about reading them.
Front swaybar is free in stock class, probably even if the car came
without one, though I'm sure a Miata did. Strut braces are not
swaybars. If he wants to run his Miata in CSP, he can run his strut
brace.
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