The diference is that there may not relly be a difference. If you want to
put a cheater engine in any thing it is damn hard to detect.How do you
really know the engines in all the "stock" Neons are stock? You simply must
trust all the people. We do trust our competitors until they tell us
differently.
I have seen lots of gray market cars and lots of questionably stock cars.
Grey Market cars or any cars fitted with proper running gear for the street
need to be classed away from the pure race vehicle (no lights, carpet, dash,
interior, windows, top, fenders, license, state inspection, exhaust,
alternate un-streetable engine etc.).
This is not uninformed speculation. I have autocrossed for 28 years and
been a tech inspector for the past 15. We get about 3 Grey market cars a
year in our local club events, not to mention the countless engine swaps
etc. They always end up at the top of the class list (mod) and they usually
do not compete well even in our hard tire stock class (where they do not
belong).
They might do better in prepared after some experience and we would get more
customers coming back.
Ray Colbert
Steel Cities Region
Oakmont (Pittsburgh) PA
> ----------
> From: Jay Mitchell[SMTP:jemitchell@compuserve.com]
> Reply To: Jay Mitchell
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:49 AM
> To: Colbert, Raymond J.; Kent Rafferty; autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Kit cars in Prepared
>
> Colbert, Raymond J. wrote:
>
> > I bet you could not get an emissions ilegal engine in a car but
> I bet you
> > could order the engine and slime it in your self with out any
> one else being
> > the wiser.
>
> Instead of providing anything resembling real information, you're
> reduced to "betting." And your bet doesn't support your position.
> Even IF you're correct, you've failed to distinguish between a
> Lotus and a BMW (or a Mercedes or a Peugeot). If you could do
> this with a Lotus, you just as easily could do it with any car
> made overseas in which a non-US version had a different engine
> from the Federal one. AND such a car wouldn't be legal in Stock
> or Street Prepared anyway.
>
> Ever hear of the "gray market?" I've personally seen two BMW
> 323is of early '80s vintage and one Alpina 2002 brought to Solo
> II events and entered in Stock, even though those cars were never
> legally sold in this country. Do you really believe this practice
> only involved British cars?
>
> Nothing you've said has supported your assertion that certain
> cars should be prejudicially excluded from Solo II competition.
> If you actually have facts and supporting evidence, it would be a
> refreshing change for you to offer same. Otherwise, you have only
> uninformed speculation.
>
> Jay
>
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