LAWS SCHMAWS! Changing a thermostat is ILLEGAL!!!
>Shouldn't we all also remember that in order to operate any
>vehicle on a public roadway in the US, the Federal
>government mandates that the entire emissions system be
>intact. This includes the catalytic converter if so equiped
>when originally manufactured. The addition or removal as a
>deviation from the originally designed system is considered
>a federal offense.
shouldn't we leave legislative function to the US EPA, and perhaps remember that the Feds regulate NEW CAR SALES, or should we perhap incorporate the entire CFR42 (Code of federal regualions chapters about motor vehicvles)(as far as i can remember, YOU look it up,)
It seems only reasonable to me that the
>rule book require the competitors to meet the bare minimum
>of the federal statute in this matter.
Why the bare minimum?
Why pick and choose?
ANYTHING which deviate from the way the car originally was run on its EPA "combined urban cycle" certification test is ILLEGAL, and that includes thermostat, the thermo switch for the electric fan, all ducting and all those weird thing tht look like Japanese sex-toys on the intakes, tire overall diameter, all gear ratios.
You open the door to destroying the sport with endless litigation.
Again for the final time for all your folks thrashing around defending a pointlessly dangerous mandate
WHICH NOW IS BEING DEFENDED FOR PURE OBSTINACY AND TO SAVE FACE WHICH IS SO OFTEN THE CASE WITH SCCA
IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRDOOD, THE PRBOARD, OR SCCA TO DUPLICATE LEGISLATION OR MAKE REFERENCE TO NARROWLY SELECTED PORTIONS OF FEDERAL OR STATE LAWS.
It is er overstepping the madate and they have no authority to enforce, so it is pointless to refer to law.
Imean what are they going to do, call the cops on Higgins?
ENOUGH OF THIS LAW CRAP, _EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDER EXEMPTION FROM THE NORMAL LAWS.
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>Is this a great reason? maybe not, but its a real reason.
No it is constantly repeated half truth selectively applied, to quote that man of few words Boris Badanoff "It's Hooooey!"
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>Brad Odegard
Again I state the main reason now is SCCA trying to save face and not back down after yet one more poorly thought out "Brilliant" idea cooked up without any thought and dropped from above.
And Brad, do you understand that the three way cat works only whren the stociometric ratio of HC/CO/CO2 is within a very very narrow band and a variation on one leads to huge swings in the others?
So allowing any mods to compression, camshafts, fuel quantity, boost rev limit and the things _wont_ work SO THERE IS EITHER NO POINT TO REQUIRING A CAT or maybe there is NO POINT TO ALLOWING _ANY_ MODS??
Do you understand the three way cat fiunction?
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
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