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Re: ECTA Street Classes

To: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: ECTA Street Classes
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:02:31 -0400
Chuck

For Real Street it needs to be a single carburetor, 4 bbl or less. NO twin
carb anything or any EFI system. You can run anything in Super Street.

Street legal tires are required. Must pass a state inspection. H, V or Z
rated depending on speed.

JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:01 PM
Subject: ECTA Street Classes


> John, Joe & List,
>
>    Our new Real Street category calls for single 4 barrel carburetion
only.
> My assumption is that the goal here is to restrict multi-carb induction
> swaps.  How about cars that had been 4 barrel which were swapped to two
> barrel, factory EFI, or inline engines with dual side drafts?  Lots of the
> smaller displacement engines use other than a single 4 bbl, that's what
I'm
> trying to clarify.
>
>    Since all street equipment must be maintained, are tires with the
minimum
> 3/32" tread depth are also required?  How about DOT approved Z speed rated
> race tires which are 3/4 slick when new?  I've got a couple sets of
> autocross tires from last season that I'd like to get the last bit of wear
> out of before they get hard.  Bottom line is this, once we arrive at the
> track can we swap on a more capable and safer specialty tire or must we
race
> on street tires?
>
>    The thrash has begun.
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC
>




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