----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sirota" <mark@sirota.org>
To: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>; "Nomad Trash" <NomadTrash@att.net>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: Forwarded: clarifications to FM exhaust protest
> --On Monday, September 16, 2002 12:00 PM -0400 "Mark J. Andy"
> <marka@telerama.com> wrote:
> > But we _don't_ currently have a requirement for silencers. So the
option
> > is (apparently) to either not run one at all and be loud & legal, or to
> > run one to keep the noise down, but you're open to a weenie (IMHO)
> > protest.
>
> Or run one in such a way that it complies with the packaging rules.
> Perhaps an elbow between the the pipe and muffler would have done it?
>
> What I don't completely understand is, if these competitors needed to add
> a muffler to make local noise restrictions, why didn't they do it in a way
> that met the rules?
>
> Mark
>
Probably because LOCAL rules are typically less fussy about such minutiae.
The purpose there was to get quieter, and the competitors complied. I can
see it a terribly easy thing to do, missing the pipe length issue completely
while trying to ameliorate a noise issue.
Where is that 24" rule (Solo rulebook or is it a GCR F500 rule?) -- and
couldn't it be amended in the Solo book to include language so that an added
muffler does not count in that measured length? Typically, exhaust length
rules exist in road racing so pipes at head-height don't become a hazard to
fellow racers -- not an issue in Solo.
--Rocky Entriken
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