The condescending tone is completely uncalled for. I have not said one nasty or condescending word to anybody in this discussion.
I understand, and agree completely, that certain aspects of vehicle construction need to be factored into their race classification and that additions or subtractions need to be made to cover that.
If you go back and look at my original post, you would see that my one and only point of argument here is that using different multipliers for percentage HP increase in IT trim opens the "process" up for question.
Based on the specs that Andy gave me - what weights would you have come up with? Where is my math on those examples flawed?
I know that VTEC is a performance gain and that FI is (typically) better than carbs. My point is that those features are why a car has X hp and torque and they likely do not need to be further penalized (or rewarded) for the features that resulted in those ratings.
Here's an exercise - you've got two cars sitting next to each other, both with identical chassis, drive configuration, brakes, gearing, aero, etc. Both have 170 hp and 150 torque. One is VTEC DOHC, one is DOHC with "traditional" valve timing. What are the weights? Of course that is an unrealistic example but I'm curious to see the answer.
EXACTLY.
That is what I was trying to say, but couldn't come up with the right words.
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