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Originally Posted by 1795
Paul,
Scat is grinding a crank. I am trying to stay within the rules and would have to prove that prior racers had stroked their engines, something that would be hard to do as not many people would admit to having stretched the rules previously.
Jim
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If I am interpreting what you are saying correctly Jim, the original racers were prohibited from running a stroker crank. Regulations not withstanding some chose to run the bigger cranks anyway. In addition to running the bigger cranks they made a conscious decision not to advertise the fact they were doing so.
It appears that nothing has changed. The rules still prohibit the cranks and, like the original racers who did use them, a current user could build his motor with the bigger crank, just like the original racers did and then race the car with the illegal crank, making a conscious decision not to advertise the fact they were using a stroker.
It is hard to get any more period correct than that — replicated vintage cheating without advertisement, pretty authentic ...
Ed
p.s. Follow on thought. If you get tagged for an illegal stroker crank (which shouldn't happen if you don't tell anybody), you should maintain you were replicating what some of the better known 'rules optimizers' were doing back in the day soooo, you are not cheating!
Your argument would continue, positing that in actual fact you are using a well known, period correct, true to life (and form) performance enhancing technique from back in the day that anybody can still do today — which obviously means the car is not only period correct, but a legal vintage racer from that time period inder the rules.
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