Quote Originally Posted by JeffYoung View Post
No claim rule. This is not a spec class. We all spend too much time, effort, money and love on our cars to have some joker claim them for X dollars.

The RR rule was just an attempt to lower costs, and in our class, I don't see that as a valid reason for regulation. People can already spend an unlmited amount on areas where the rules are already free - wheels, new tires, exhaust (lots of dollars there), flow bench work on allowed head porting, etc. etc. etc. Why dampers got selected for "cost regulation" I do not understand.
At the time they were disallowed there was a huge gap in price. High end shocks were almost exclusively RR. It contained cost for those that had not spent the money and doubled the cost for those that had. As with every rule we engineered an alternative and put the same damping inside the unit and heat dispersion was the only loss. No difference in a sprint and very little in an enduro. On average it cost $1000 per set more to do the custom units rather than a more generic RR unit anyone can purchase. Times change as do cost.