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it is fine to "allow" any cars to remain streetable (BTW, why would you remove your horn - that could be useful on the track), I agree that the rules should be oriented towards a "real" race car.
bruce
edit - just had a duh moment and realized that my car won’t have a horn either once I put the racing wheel on it, unless I go out of my way to fit a horn button …
screwynewy wrote:
[quote]Ex36 wrote:
[quote]Sorry to sound like an ass, but the idea that we try to keep these cars "streetable" is silly. They’re race cars, not street cars. My car has a growing list of stuff that would make it fail any inspection that follows the letter of the law (i.e. no horn, no DOT seatbelts, no cat, etc., etc.). If you want to keep your car street legal, that’s a personal decision that should not dictate the rules for the rest of us.
Sasha[/quote]
My sentiments exactly.[/quote]
And mine as well. I can speak as a guy who keeps his SE30 street-able. I raced it with NASA MA this weekend and had a great time. My car is probably 50-80 lbs heavy, but it doesn’t seem to be far-down on acceleration despite having the factory cat and muffler. While I have the brake duct kit in my garage, I haven’t installed it yet (I’m afraid i’ll rip it out on the street), but didn’t have many problems to speak of with brakes this weekend. If/when my racecraft gets as good as my car, then I’ll be more concerned about those last few details of "true racecar-ness."
Anyways sorry for the long post but was just making the point that a street-legal SE30 can still be an entertaining, race-able SE30.
I think it would be a mistake to change the rules in such a way as to preclude street legal cars or to adopt rules that would make street legal cars non-competitive. I can’t speak for anyone else, but part of the attraction that a Spec E30 configuration has for me is that it can be street legal. And I suspect that is attractive to others.
Being able to have a street legal car that can be driven to/from events takes a big chunk out of the initial investment. Not having to have a hauler & trailer and a place to store same makes this series more available. The potential problem with a spec exhaust is that it is a required part of the configuration. Unless carefully chosen a spec exhaust might eliminate the possibility of having a street legal car. And if the goal of a spec exhaust is to level the field you need to consider the front exhaust section…