Quote:
as I can't see the image of the rabbit door bar, I really have a hard time, seeing how the 3-4 pounds of the door beam is a cheater tweak, that is going to make the car even .001 second a lap faster. and I hope nobody here has any beliefs that any early eighties car with door factory beams offer any semblance of side impact protection is kidding themselves, the ballast is a completly seperate issue and whether it was removed from the car. the number one rule for a cage is to provide occupant protection and the nascar cages do exactly that by adding the hard shell further away the driver.
As was already pointed out by many, we have rules. If you don't want to follow them, go race somewhere else! It has nothing to do with making the car faster, or anything else. I can't stand this attitude that it's ok to ignore the rules if you feel that it's not going to make the car faster, or that you're new, and won't be winning any races. It's really an insult to those people that try their best to prepare to the letter of the rules.
Quote:
As for the car passing it's original tech and being issued a logbook, I believe tech inspectors are concerned with safety, and not class specific rules right?
While some may place more emphasis on safety, they should also be concerned w/ rules compliance. The person that issued a log book on that car really did a disservice to the car owner. You would have to hope that every tech inspector took the same view, or you could be spending a lot of time in the tech shed and the tower.