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Originally posted by REAL 1
My only thought would be to allow the Shelby 427 compete with a standard spec 427 either aluminum block or iron block. If thats the way the car is made stock/standard spec let them compete and see how it stacks up and other stanadard 427 cars stack up against each other and 351 cars.
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Real 1,
It's OK with me that Shelby brings a standard 427 car. It is OK with me that any manufacturer brings their car with a 427.
If that is the standard offering, so be it.
My point was to try to take out the horsepower part of the equation in order to compare chassis’s on an equal footing. (And to avoid the spending contest/ringers that one sees at events like the R&G.)
If you have 200 more hp then the next guy at Willow on the big track, you are going to hide a lot of sins as far as how the chassis’s work. The track is a high speed track and horsepower means a lot. (We both know that a 427 car is going to have more than 385hp. They are going to be 525 at least.)
I guess that the best solution would be two classes.
427 engine cars
351 crate engine cars.
Run both the long track and the streets of Willow.
Put them all on the skid pad at the Streets.
Tyres must be Hoosiers on the standard (As offered in sales information) size rims.
If you offer a larger rim and wheel size, run it. (If 50% or more of your sales are in this size.)
Or, everyone run the
standard wheel and street tyre configuration that you offer in your sales literature.
But, the chassis must be as advertised.
NO trick bits.
NO bump steer kits,
NO Penske dampers. Etc.
You must run what you sell, with no modifications!!!!!!!!!!!
In other words,
CHEATING is not allowed.
If found to be outside of your standard offering. You are out of here.
And it will be published as such!!!!
Now, I would like the rest of manufacturers to chime in as to the rules.
Let's get down to brass tacks.
Wait a minute folks!!!!!!!! It just hit me
Jeeze, this is like our congress and Senate, amendments to every simple bill.
You start out with a pure idea, and it gets lobbied into something that nobody recognizes the next day.
But all of the special interests are happy and everyone comes away with nothing.
Boy, was I stupid to start this or what???
Nevermind, think of it as a brain fart. 
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