The FIA portion was understood (they have a great clubhouse in Paris, BTW).
I was poking around for the numbers required to homologate an "FIA
version".
Also, odd (well, maybe not so) that SCCA would not accept an FIA version
head/manifold. I seem to recall several (what were claimed to be) remnant
FIA Cobras running in A Production in the 1970s.
- Bob
Thomas - Sweden wrote:
>
> 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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