Ok, maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but this restricter thing keeps getting under my skin. It's kinda like watching lemmings go off a cliff, or sending in my tax money, I know it's all a lost cause. I just have a gut feeling that we are all gonna put the smaller restrictors in, spend a bunch of coin respeccing the motors, and nothing significant will happen. Sure, we'll go a little slower, but the accident rate, cornering speeds, lopsided competition, etc.. will remain the same.
I'm also a little miffed at our leaders on this one. I was told that using the Jemba stage models, they were gonna plug in different car specs (40mm open car, GrN car, 34mm Open car, WRC car) and determine the relative speeds. The restrictor decision was supposed to be made according this analyis. But apparently this never happened. Maybe it's because it's impossible (I.e. the Jemba system won't do it), or maybe someone dropped the ball. The most I found out was that our 40mm cars are about as fast as a WRC car (according to Jemba), and coincidentally about a quarter of a million dollars cheaper. So here's the miffed part...Why can't we drive cars that are as fast as WRC cars (and cheaper!)? Are we too retarded, us stupid Americans? Why must we have slower cars than the rest of the world? There is talk in another forum of preparing a US driver for the WRC, but now we won't even let him or her drive a car of similar speed. Same speed as WRC car, 1/4 the cost, and this is a bad thing?????
But, I think it's counterproductive to complain on this forum without offering a solution. WE HAVE TO SLOW THE CARS DOWN. It's probably a function of the roads, but our TOP SPEEDS are getting way to fast. So here's an idea I floated to Doug Robinson to slow the cars down:
Gear limit the cars to 125mph. Why can't this be done? The Evo "short" box already does this. And putting a different trans in an open class WRX is already a forgone conclusion. It would be real easy to spec out dogboxes or final drives that limit the top speed. I'd rather dump $5k into a bulletproof dogbox that will make my car stronger and quicker (while still limiting top speed) instead of dumping it into a 34mm motor that is testy, weak, sluggish, and won't necessarily limit top speed (given enuf road and gearing). We theoretically have to tools in place to check gear boxes for the GrN cars, so testing Open cars shouldn't be an issue, correct?
I dunno, just a thought. There has gotta be a better way. Any other ideas out there??????
Dennis Martin
[email protected]
920-432-4845
I'm also a little miffed at our leaders on this one. I was told that using the Jemba stage models, they were gonna plug in different car specs (40mm open car, GrN car, 34mm Open car, WRC car) and determine the relative speeds. The restrictor decision was supposed to be made according this analyis. But apparently this never happened. Maybe it's because it's impossible (I.e. the Jemba system won't do it), or maybe someone dropped the ball. The most I found out was that our 40mm cars are about as fast as a WRC car (according to Jemba), and coincidentally about a quarter of a million dollars cheaper. So here's the miffed part...Why can't we drive cars that are as fast as WRC cars (and cheaper!)? Are we too retarded, us stupid Americans? Why must we have slower cars than the rest of the world? There is talk in another forum of preparing a US driver for the WRC, but now we won't even let him or her drive a car of similar speed. Same speed as WRC car, 1/4 the cost, and this is a bad thing?????
But, I think it's counterproductive to complain on this forum without offering a solution. WE HAVE TO SLOW THE CARS DOWN. It's probably a function of the roads, but our TOP SPEEDS are getting way to fast. So here's an idea I floated to Doug Robinson to slow the cars down:
Gear limit the cars to 125mph. Why can't this be done? The Evo "short" box already does this. And putting a different trans in an open class WRX is already a forgone conclusion. It would be real easy to spec out dogboxes or final drives that limit the top speed. I'd rather dump $5k into a bulletproof dogbox that will make my car stronger and quicker (while still limiting top speed) instead of dumping it into a 34mm motor that is testy, weak, sluggish, and won't necessarily limit top speed (given enuf road and gearing). We theoretically have to tools in place to check gear boxes for the GrN cars, so testing Open cars shouldn't be an issue, correct?
I dunno, just a thought. There has gotta be a better way. Any other ideas out there??????
Dennis Martin
[email protected]
920-432-4845