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So Andy, alternate parts have to weigh exactly the same as stock parts. What do you use as your standard? Do you think stock brake rotors all weigh exactly the same? Heck, stock rods don't all weigh the same (if they did, there would be no need to balance them). What's the allowable tolerance? And I seriously doubt that you'll find a factory spec on something like brake rotor or hub weight. BTW, I believe the piston rule states that the forged pistons can be no lighter than stock (not 100% sure w/o pulling out the book).
As I said, I find it the ultimate irony that you take such a strict constructionist stand on something like this, when you trampled all over the rules w/ your own ECU. You claim that you feel that what you did was legal, and that when you asked others, they agreed w/ you. Point of fact is, it was never actually put to the test via the protest process or the clarification process. And there have been enough people just on this board that are not convinced that it was legal. You used a modification that you claimed was legal, but was never actually vetted, as justification for a rule change. What's even worse, is that by your own admission, it was not consistent w/ your interpretation of the intent of the rule (others have stated that they didn't feel that it met their interpretation of the intent either). You've got the guy that's supposed to be guiding the IT ship, leading the charge for rules creep, in what is arguably the biggest departure from the IT philosophy that we have seen to date. [/b]
Bill, you just don't get it. All I was doing was agreeing with Joe that the method of mfg is not specified in the rulebook. Flaw in the rules? Certainly up for debate.