FIA stands for Federation International de Automobile
and the world H.Q. is in Paris, France. This is where
automobile manufactures homologate special parts
for international racing. To be able to compete in
most racing series sanctioned by FIA the car need
a certification document usually called FIA papers.
Automobile manufacturers have a long history of
cheating "special" products into their cars and even
not actually build the required minimum parts and
even cars. One of the best known cheaters in
automobile racing, Ferrari only built 39 of the 250 GTO
but said they made 100. I think there are now at least
100 survivors of the original 39 cars.
Thomas
RWM wrote:
> What is the origins of the generic term "FIA (this, that or the other)", as in
> "FIA Cobra", "FIA head", "FIA chassis", etc.? Were these performance parts
>that
> met homoligation numbers?
>
> - RWM, '69 2000 Solex - FIA nothing, as far as I know...
>
> datsunmike wrote:
> >
> > Wellll, you learn something new everyday. I have a real early Comp catalog
> > and never saw a FIA head listed for the Roadster motors. Now I know why.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stan Chernoff" <az589@lafn.org>
> > To: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>; "List Administration"
> > <lists@autox.team.net>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Forwarded: Nissan factory head for sale
> >
> > > There are at least two types of FIA heads for L series and also FIA heads
> > > and manifolds for R series engines and FI heads for U series and all sorts
> > > of things that didn't show up in Datsun Comp USA catalogs. FIA heads were
> > > not supposed to run in SCCA events.
> > >
> > > Stan
> > > ============
> > >
> > > At 09:32 PM 9/27/02 -0400, datsunmike wrote:
> > > >I thought the FIA heads were for L series engines running NLA manifolds
> > and
> > > >carbs.
> > > >
> > > >Mike
> >
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