Here’s my perception of how the dyno standard will be implemented. I had this wrong, but an email from Carter a couple minutes ago help me understand better.
The dyno standard is pretty much the “honor system”. Then one day there will be a dyno at the track and your car will get dynoed per the procedure in the CCR. Based on the result you may get reward weight or if you have >162.9 it’s a DQ.
Note that there is no requirement that you do an annual dyno run like the hp/wt classes do. So if you know your buddy has 155hp and he gets a couple car lengths on you on the straights, I don’t know if I’d bother doing a dyno run on your own. When the day comes that a dyno shows up at the track, you’ll dyno 153hp and you’ll be good.
It remains to be seen how dyno runs will be paid for. It won’t be cheap to entice a mobile dyno to one of our tracks once or twice/yr. One way or another, we can expect to pay for it. The class doesn’t have a bank account and it’s not reasonable to dip into the Pantas family Christmas fund. With a bit of luck NASA can keep a dyno event busy at the track all weekend long so maybe we can bring the cost/run down quite a bit. If the cost for our 3 run inspection is <$100, it’s because someone got a good deal for us. Therefore if we get that deal, it might be a mistake to whine about paying $100.
If you’ve not been to VIR, you may not realize that there is a dynojet dyno at the track. For those thinking about VIR in the next 6-9 months, that would be a very convenient opportunity to confirm their hp before a mobile dyno shows up unexpectedly at a SE event. Which it will. I’m going to put my car on the dyno at VIR in Oct. If some others are interested and willing to commit, I bet we can get a price break.