Jake,

The "even up" comment was not meant to be a declaration of the potential of the car, but rather a description of the way the car ran at that one event. The upcoming MARRS / SARRC at Charlotte will give another chance to see how the car runs.

As to "...why deal with the headaches...?", you answer that question yourself in your post when you make reference to the ITCS rulebook. In rare instances, parts substitutions have been allowed in IT when there is no availability of the original part. Those substitutions have been the minimal amount required. The carb version is an attempt to address the parts shortages with the least deviation from the ITCS rulebook. As I stated in my original post, take out the Renesis based engine and put a 12A back in, and you have a fully legal IT car.

The FI version, while a neat concept, is NOT an IT car.