DOUG:
BOTH OF YOU RASCALS ARE BRUCE FURGESON'S KIDZ...RIGHT? I'M A
FRIEND OF YER OL' MAN, SO YA BOTH BETER TREAT OL' DAN RIGHT.
RIGHT DAN? -YEAH DAN' YOU'VE MET ME ON THE SALT; -BACK IN '89-'90 WHEN I
CAME DOWN FROM MONTANA WITH GEORGE CAMPBELL AND HANK LAW'SHE AND THE WHOLE
CRAZY BUNCH! SMALL WORLD HUH? HI TO ALL OF YA .
I AM FOLLOWIN' YOUR DISCUSSIONS WITH MUCH INTEREST......
"DIRTY DOUG" IN NY
>From: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
>Reply-To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
>To: land-speed@autox.team.net, dwarner@electrorent.com
>Subject: Re: Fw: spoilers
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:28:49 -0500
>
>hi dan, i took a walk out to my car to get my scta rulebook and noticed all
>thes cars with air gaps between the trunklid and spoiler in the parking lot
>- ford escort, pontiac bonneville and grand am, volkswagen jetta,
>mitsubishi eclipse, nissan maxima, acura integra, dodge colt, i could keep
>going but i think you get my point. it is safe to assume that all these
>cars have production "wings" according to the scta rules ? . my apologies
>that i dont know you better but i would assume you play an active part in
>the scta rules, so i'm probably "shooting myself in the foot" based on the
>2000 rules have yet to be determined and will quite possibly change because
>of this dicussion, but i guess i might as well die trying to prove the
>legality of the spoiler on our vehicle. section IV 26 h) states a couple of
>things. first, it states that "when the spoiler is laid flat" - i assume
>that this means it can be adjusted for "angle of attack", which would
>probably require some gap unless a cheesy piano hinge setup or similar is
>used. it also states that "plates are permitted to fill in horizontal
>spoiler/body gap." so right there the scta acknowledged in writing that a
>gap may exist right in the spoiler definition. we just chose not to fill
>the gap on our spoiler - it says "permitted" , not required. and as you
>mentioned your interpretation of "a single aerodynamic surface" is
>different from ours. i guess it gets philisophical how many surfaces are on
>a flat sheet of metal?, teardropped shaped? , egg shaped?, spherical? -
>well, at least we can still run the spoiler at the drags if the rules
>change. by the way, i'm darrell's brother doug in cased you are confused
>
>regards-
>doug @ black radon engineering
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