If you were king for a day?

[rlward]

Heck in 20 years let make a class of motorized micro-cars. any power unit allowed, as long as it was governemt approved. I could hook my pacemaker battery to the GMC-Obama green micro motor and get up to 25 MPH on the straights, 5 MPH faster than the national speed limit on the interstates.

[Bob Roth]

1) Allow ABS, other than airbags, they are the most highly tested, most failsafe parts of a car. Considering that these cars are capable of 150 mph, I find it highly unlikely that ABS is as unsafe as some suggest. Now if it is, fine, make it optional to remove for those that think othewise. However having locked up rear ends and fronts dry and wet, if its already on the car, let me use it if I want it.
2) For power based weight adjustments, do the area under the curve plus provide some adjustment for high and low HP/liter engines. A 1 hp per liter 160 hp 1.6 Del Sol does not have the same development potential as a 0.6 hp per liter 150 hp 2.5 liter porsche. The only honda's entered in quantity in IT today are non-vtec ITA Civic's and Integra's. There's something wrong when people are building VTEC honda's for every other class of racing but SCCA IT racing.
3) Let people disable and remove power steering, same with remove non essential engine compartment stuff like wiper systems (at least in spec classes - See below)
4) Work on more single make spec classes . In the field's I am seeing, 60% of the IT cars are Spec/ITA Miata's. Like it or not IT is already a majority spec series. Accept that the future is more spec racing and not class racing. Go to Spec 944, BMW 3 series, Honda. We are approaching the end of times where there are cheap plentiful varied new cars that are very good (other than Miata's) coming into IT. Most cars are too heavy, and heck, many are ending supply of manual transmissions. Also they are just getting tough to develop into reliable, good working race cars. Rather than pit the Honda Vtecs vs BMW 3 series vs 944's leaving everybody unhappy, make them race within their own spec for their own trophies. I am not arguing about eliminating the present classes, Just add new ones using NASA templates try to grow IT fields.

I have been around to see VW rabbits, Dondge Chargers, Dodge Neon's, and CRX's be the next hot thing in IT and then wane. Someday this will also happen to Miata's. If it does and the IT committee hasn't found a next act, I don't see how IT will continue.

[lateapex911]

Work on more single make spec classes . In the field's I am seeing, 60% of the IT cars are Spec/ITA Miata's. Like it or not IT is already a majority spec series. Accept that the future is more spec racing and not class racing. Go to Spec 944, BMW 3 series, Honda. We are approaching the end of times where there are cheap plentiful varied new cars that are very good (other than Miata's) coming into IT. Most cars are too heavy, and heck, many are ending supply of manual transmissions. Also they are just getting tough to develop into reliable, good working race cars. Rather than pit the Honda Vtecs vs BMW 3 series vs 944's leaving everybody unhappy, make them race within their own spec for their own trophies. I am not arguing about eliminating the present classes, Just add new ones using NASA templates try to grow IT fields.

I have been around to see VW rabbits, Dondge Chargers, Dodge Neon's, and CRX's be the next hot thing in IT and then wane. Someday this will also happen to Miata's. If it does and the IT committee hasn't found a next act, I don't see how IT will continue.

Let's be even more simple. Have a class for every entrant.

I can't remember when a Dodge Charger was ever THE hot car in a competitive field.. Rabbits are still out there and doing well, and you should get out to the IT-Fest and the ARRC..there was this car called the CRX there. Did OK.