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The interesting point here is that anyone who would protest this line (forgetting whether it is grey, legal or illegal for a moment) would be doing so because.........????
...........Because the ECU he chose works better with the MAP sensor..as in easier to integrate..than with the stock sensor?
He could have utilized the stock sensor, and spent days and buckets of money, but he chose not to, thinking his method was legal....and the on track...and on dyno result would be...........the same.
It's curious to hear of people wanting to protest such an item, when I look around and find grevious offenses pretty darm easily...ram air, cut header panels for cold air intakes, and on and on. Yet, those mods...clearly illegal and performance enhancing...... don't get paper thrown at them, yet this one would?
And if the reason is "because I think it is clearly illegal, and a malicious cheat, and whether the result is a performance gain or not is irrelevent", fine. Fair enough. But, I hope that the same sharp eye is writing all other spotted infractions as well.
Also, I give Andy credit for beign straight up on this, as it is clearly an item that opinions differ on. But...I can tell you, he is not the first guy to do this. I know guys in other classes who have done the same exact thing. And they felt the method of implementation was legal as well.
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*I* would protest because I think it's illegal (under the old rule) and has the distinct possibility of being a performance enhancement. More accurately, I would probably say something to the car owner first. This is gray enough, that they could probably say they think it's legal. At which point I'd say I'm going to file a protest and we'll see what the stewards say. I would also do the same thing for the other items you mentioned.