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Re: need clarification on a rule, please...

To: Charles <cfgold@intrex.net>
Subject: Re: need clarification on a rule, please...
From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@foo3.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:11:07 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Charles wrote:

> I believe you are correct on all counts sir.
> The downpipe moves you into street prepared, a programmable CPU puts you in
> SM. You will not be competitive in ASP. See if your local group runs a paxed
> street tire class.

yeah, apparently they do in the bay area.. hmm i'm going to need a lot of
magnetic material to put in "274 SM2-ST-N" (street-mod 2, street tire,
novice)..

i believe i'm allowed to run in novice since i haven't raced for 9 years
and never won anything at a national/regional level.  Went to the 94
wendover regionals and got my butt handed to me, but it was fun :)  that
was one week after I had gotten all fired up because i actually won my
class (BS at the time) locally :)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott M. Stone <sstone@foo3.com>
> To: <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:31 PM
> Subject: need clarification on a rule, please...
> 
> 
> > i remember this was somewhat debated last time i was a part of this sport,
> > so let me ask here and see if it's been clarified any since i last was
> > involved :)
> >
> > My Rx7 had 124,000 miles on it when the water seals blew.  I had the
> > engine rebuilt, new turbos, a bunch of other stuff.  the pre-cat on the
> > car (Rx7s have a pre-cat and a main cat, at least starting in 1986 i
> > believe.. my 88 had one too...) was very plugged, as they tend to get
> > after 124k.  My mechanic put on a down-pipe to replace the precat, which
> > is a fairly common thing to do on these cars.  Does this automatically
> > disqualify the car from "stock" even though it's still smog-legal in this
> > configuration?  My mechanic is also recommending a new computer for the
> > thing, he says mine is running the car a bit too rich and it could use a
> > new one.. he wants to put in a 16-bit programmable FCON that can control
> > boost and stuff.  IIRC that puts the car into *mod* since it alters the
> > boost... is that still the case?
> >
> > Now, that said, i haven't raced in 9 years, i'm not going to be beating
> > anyone.  Would people be upset if i ran in SS-Novice with this car (it has
> > street tires, stock size on stock rims) or should I just go with
> > ASP-Novice?  even though i haven't done any suspension work.. i'm
> > concerned that there's no way to be competitive in ASP without doing a lot
> > more work to the car...
> >
> 
> 

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@foo3.com>
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Sun Solaris Certified Systems Administrator

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