Howdy,
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Patricia Kelly wrote:
> I understand that just after the BoD met early this
> week, the SEB returned a changed proposal, raising the
> minimum weight to 1100#, and the maximum weight to
> 2300#, a sort of sliding scale on the upside.
> There was a change in mulpipliers for number of
> valves, but why was the minimum weight raised 100#.
> And yes, the 7A can get lower than 1000#, not quite so
> easily since we rebuilt it 4 years ago.
> If the new minimum is suggested to be raised to 1100#
> and the multiplier changed to 1.3 (for 2 valve
> engines--I have no idea what affect that will have),
> just on the weight increase alone, I'm a dissatisfied
> long-time SCCA customer.. :(
Multiplier would be 1.13, not 1.3...
That would mean a 948cc Lotus 7A would need to weigh 1100 lbs (calculated
weight of 1071 lbs), which is still 25 lbs less than currently required.
Mark
|