Scott, you nailed this issue. It’s not the money, it’s the principle. The vast majority of us don’t believe that at root, there is any merit to this change, and it is just change for change’s sake, and we don’t like being completely ignored. Steve F, you are absolutely missing the point.
Funny how things are different now that there are dozens of SE30 racers active.
Wasn’t that long ago that a noob would ask a question and we’d all pile on and say "SE30 is a dictatorship and it’s better that way", or "just drink some SE30 Koolaid and you’ll see" and similar. It was (and is) a dictatorship. I used to think it was a benevolent dictatorship.
However, even a dictator is a leader, and if the people won’t follow, you have problems. It seems that our leaders have gotten so used to being blindly followed that they haven’t noticed we are a critical mass, we have opinions, and we deserve to have our point of view considered.
We don’t seem to take well to hearing the dictator say "this is how it’s going to be" and not offer a well-formed argument as to why it is needed.
They could have presented this with a 1 year grace period or a grandfather clause, so that those of us who just bought exhausts wouldn’t be grumbling about throwing them away so quickly. They could have offered some reasonably scientific dyno results to show the relative differences. They could have talked about the "unofficial survey" of competitor cars, and told us what we already know, which is that the vast majority are running dual glasspacks, not singles. But they didn’t.
At the end of the day, one or two guys making decisions is still the only way to avoid chaos (lord help us if we ever form a rules committee) but you can’t take on that role without looking around to see if the serfs are lined up behind you.
This band of serfs seems disinclined to do that, at least on this issue.
