>Ok, Derek, do engine displacement modifiers apply, or is it
>simply 2 Litres, regardless of # of valves?
>Maybe I could apply the displacement modifiers to the
>minimum weight? 1.2 (for 16V) x 2000# = 2400#
>
>Ahhh.. nevermind, I'm in G5 anyway...
KEVIN!!! Håll truten!
No, really displacement and compression ratio are the real things to control, and 2400cc as the SCCA does it is way too much an advantage over a 2000cc given all things equal.
Besides, the guys who want to do 16valve don't have such a huge inhereant advantge, and most can't source the rally nasty things to really make it advantageous. (Wanna guess who _can_?)
Look at the rest of the world and you see 1300cc, 1600cc, 2000cc and above 2000cc. Roughyly equal steps, and you know that everybody is at the class limit.
SCCA we have 1800cc Golfs (would the plural be GolVES?)(you know, one calf several calves, one half, several halves so one golf several Golves?) and overbored 2300 motors, almost 2400cc in the same class. 600cc is 33% of 1800, 400cc is 20% of 2000cc, a big difference.
Now typically the level of engine and trans mods in recent years in Gp2 and Gp5 have been pretty low relative to say the mid 90s, and some newcomers have suggested that there isn't much of a speed difference between the two, and I'll suggest that poor vehicle choice and low driving skills in the Big class and some OK driving in Gp2 have blured the situation, but we can't make rules to account for poor driving or prep.
As a long time agitator for the class I was pondering if we should ban aftermarket individual throttle plate fuel injector systems, and I don't know.
Allowing carbs ought to open the door to individual thottle body systems since there is a huge increase in what you can get into the motor thru carbs vs OEM intake manifolds, and aside from total intake valve area, the intake tract is the next big detirminant of max output in a Normal Aspirated motor.
Oh by the way, the original idea was called Formula 2000, to take effect in 2000. The big idea was comprehensibility, and hence marketability, and we might want to call it that so the the idea is in the name.
Formula or Group 2000.
2000cc
2000 lbs minimum
2 wheel drive
2 man crew
Geeze anybody can understand that.
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
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