James,
Also note that threaded bodies run alot cooler
than your standard steel tubing.
More so of an advantage.
jack ~
> From autox-owner@autox.team.net Wed Jun 7 06:03:43 2000
> From: "Burns, James B." <James.Burns@jhuapl.edu>
> To: autox <autox@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Coilovers in SP
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:02:20 -0400
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> In Improved Touring, the "coilover" rule is also confusing, and is
> interpreted to mean that a threaded shock body is illegal, but a threaded
> collar over the shock body is okay since it is not a coilover shock but
> rather an adjustable height spring perch. The threaded collar cannot be
> welded to the strut. The rule seems pretty silly since you end up with
> pretty much the same thing whether you have a slip-on threaded collar or a
> threaded shock body, but I think some folks are afraid that costs could
> escalate if the threaded body shocks were allowed (even though some IT cars
> already have triple-adjustable custom-valved remote-reservoir shocks that
> cost more than a front-running SRX7).
>
> I don't know if the SP rules are the same, but I just thought I'd give the
> IT perspective.
>
> Brad Burns
>
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