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We each know about our own cars. But, what you're really asking is "...can all of us know all of the details of all cars, such that we would know when someone was cheating"?
The answer to that is, of course, "no". Certainly no more than we do about the mechanical equipment we're supposed to self-police. If a significant performance potential exists with a swapped chassis, we'd have no way to identify it, and in fact someone could be using that right now. Therefore, the current VIN rule is totally unenforceable, even less so than the proposed change.[/b]
Well, I see good arguements on both sides, however, since nobody can know or understand the unintended concequences of this, why do it? I am only familiar with Miata's and RX-7's. These are mainstream cars where tons of them are on track. What about the hundreds of iterations of Honda's and VW's? What about the weird and rare stuff?
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I'll be redundant and say it again: no one has come up with even one reasonable example of where this proposed rule would provide a performance advantage and encourage cheating. And, no one has come up with how we could stop that cheating if it were being done today. This resistance to such a change is clearly becoming nothing more than entrenched ideals of "the way things have always been done", sprinkled with a touch of "it will be used to create a model that didn't exist". Yet, no one can provide examples to support this case. They rely on the entrenched existence of the rule with no logical way to support it, deferring to fear and the unknown to resist change.[/b]
Well I gave you my example, and that is just what I know about. The fear is of the unknown. Just because YOUR car fits the mold doesn't mean everyone elses does.