On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Matt Murray wrote:
> Paul says that OEM shocks have already been tried in
> showroom stock, and they failed there because the protest
> shed couldn't enforce the rule. Okay, I remember the days
> that they had to go to 5th at the Runoffs to find a legal
> car to stand on the podium. But those cars that were
> illegal, weren't found illegal for shocks--they were illegal
> for engine modifications. Showroom stock racers were
> finding lots of ways to built illegal engines that they were
> convinced were undetectable. The protest shed found them to
> be quite detectable, and the cars were ejected. As far as I
> can remember, and someone please set me straight if I'm
> missing something, but I don't remember a single
> disqualification at the runoffs in Showroom Stock for
> tweaked shocks.
This may be true, I don't know. However I heard it first-hand from a
top-5 SSB finisher that *every one* of the top runners had modified
shocks. I suspect that the fact that it is so hard to prove a shock is
illegal or that it's easier to go for the simpler to prove illegality is
the reason that shocks never got anyone thrown out, they simply never
got that far down the "laundry list"!
BTW: This same fellow offered to sell me a balanced 1.6L Miata engine
that was "indetectable" by the protest shed. Needless to say I
declined...
This was back in '94 or so, I've heard that Showroom Stock may have
gotten cleaner since then but back in the early '90s cheating was
absolutely rampant and even drivers that some people regard as "gods"
like former soloist Randy Pobst have been ejected for cheating (a
modified Miata ECU in his case).
- Alan Dahl
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