David moved out to the SF Bay Area, never autocrossed again, but went road
racing successfully in Sports 2000. Still is, matter of fact.
--Pat Kelly
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>From: "Tom Holt" <tholt@ccsi.com>
>To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>, "Eric Salem"
<eric@mail.brown911.com>, "'autox'" <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Rules of order
>Date: Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 7:33 PM
>
> I can't recall the particulars of it, but several years back I remember
>David Ferguson losing a protest in FP because he had a 2 plug head on his
>914-6... I want to say he wasn't even running two spark plugs, but he still
>lost. He came back the next year, fully legal, won and never returned.
> So... at least on the 914-6... it has been found illegal before.
>
>Tom
>FP29
>(not a decade older than Eric!) ;)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rocky Entriken <rocky@tri.net>
>To: Eric Salem <eric@mail.brown911.com>; 'autox' <autox@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:35 PM
>Subject: Re: Rules of order
>
>
>> As I read it, yes, you do. However, what that really means is you cannot
>be
>> GCR-illegal. There is a number of things you are permitted but don't have
>to
>> do. By the same token, if the Solo book permits something the GCR does
>not,
>> you can't do it if you are claiming to be a GCR-prep car.
>>
>> I.e. You present a twin-plug car, someone protests it, you claim legality
>as
>> a GCR-prep car. Better not be anything else on it that is GCR-Illegal, or
>> anything missing that is GCR-required, even if allowed under the Solo
>rules.
>>
>> I'm reading into that, Comp Board permitted the twin-plug heads. Solo
>Board
>> is not bound by that, other than through the GCR-legal option.
>>
>> --Rocky
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>
>> To: "'Rocky Entriken'" <rocky@tri.net>; "'autox'" <autox@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:30 PM
>> Subject: RE: Rules of order
>>
>>
>> > Well here's the skinny.
>> >
>> > In February's Errors & Omissions they gave GT2 911's and 914's twin plug
>> > heads. Well there's not much of a HP difference between single and
>> > twin-plug, but the drivability difference is huge. Since my car is
>> > driven to the events twin-plugging would be a nice touch.
>> >
>> > So if GCR legal means FP by default do I have to go all the way to GCR
>> > legal just to get this one item.
>> >
>> > Wondering,
>> > e
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net] On
>> > Behalf Of Rocky Entriken
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 6:54 PM
>> > To: Eric Salem; 'autox'
>> > Subject: Re: Rules of order
>> >
>> >
>> > Nope, not quite a mirror. GCR was merely the starting point.
>> >
>> > Of course the rules for GT1 are not quite the same as for GT5, never
>> > mind Production.
>> >
>> > These solo people seem to have the silly idea that just because
>> > preparation rules were originally created for road racing cars they are
>> > somehow unsuitable for solo. Actually they are quite suitable, just that
>> > given a certain allowance you might go this way for a road-race
>> > application and that way for a solo application, but it is still the
>> > same rule. Any prep rule is basically arbitrary -- doesn't much matter
>> > what the rule is only that there is a rule so limits are established
>> > that define the car/category.
>> >
>> > That said -- the Solo II Prep rules are mildly different from the GCR
>> > GT/Production rules. IMHO, not so much that it makes a significant
>> > difference. But there also is a paragraph in there somewhere that says
>> > if yours is a GCR-legal car, it is therefore a Solo-legal car. The catch
>> > is you have to be all one way or all the other, no taking the best from
>> > each book and mixing them. My DP Solo car is really a dual-purpose GP
>> > race car. I could care what the Solo II prep rules say. A long as I am
>> > GCR-legal I'm good. You too if you like the GT rules better.
>> >
>> > --Rocky Entriken
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>
>> > To: "'autox'" <autox@autox.team.net>
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 5:43 PM
>> > Subject: Rules of order
>> >
>> >
>> > > Somewhere I got the silly notion that Solo Prepared engine rules
>> > > should be a mirror of the GCR rules for GT 1 - 5.
>> > >
>> > > If that's the case there is an Errors and Omissions I WANT in my FP
>> > > car.
>> > >
>> > > 1. Am I way off base?
>> > >
>> > > 2. How do I start the process?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > e
>> > > #72 FP
>> > >
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