I know of a few ITC CRX that will be making the FI Si swap to B. My Civic Std ITC car will eventually become a ITB Civic, just have stop spending the money on the A car.
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Everyone getting off the ITC bus? UNINTENDED - eh Kirk?
Only one of ours is going to become a B car, so we'll have an A, B, C. B may not be ready this season.
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ITC was a dead-man walking w/o the VIN rule. No new cars being classified except for fat VWs. No new cars being built for the US market that it makes sense to turn into an IT car. Heck, you can almost buy a ready to race ITB car for what the shell of the VW costs. 25+ year-old cars requiring body parts... I know of a couple of C cars that got parked because the last set of clean body panels were on the car.
With the VIN rule going away, there at least will be a few survivors that get the Jesus treatment.
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CRX Si is basically the same car as the Civic Si, there's at least one of those in the norteast that is very competitive in ITB. The car that we're VINing to B is a Civic.
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I'm sure a few ITC rabbits will be jumping to 1.8's and heading for B as well.
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That was actually one of the desires people were expressing when we first started talking about it, to do exactly what we're seeing the Honda guys do. So, no - not unintended at all.
That said, I've long been an advocate for proactively listing some new ITC blood...
K
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Since VW didn't make a GLI with a 1.8 until 84 I won't be able to take advantage of this rule. Correct?
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This is a bit of thread highjack, but this thread is already poluted.
Seems that the VIN rule is getting us closer to dual classification. If the VIN rule appears to be a good thing, why not re-open the dual classification can of worms?
Take Rob's request to toggle his BMW back & forth. As an ITS car running in ITR he is at a known disadvantage for HP & brakes. As Andy said, he'll beat some, not all and anyone who protests him is doing so out on the weenie card. The advantage is more entries and cars that can run in more classes, therefore making the car more appealing. I'm not proposing cars to run down a class, just up. More cars in a race is a good thing, otherwise we're just doing time trials.
Matt
No way, I (still) say.
On the one hand, I hear IT drivers arguing against including SMs and V8 in IT because "they already have a place to play." So apparently one place to play is enough. But then they want their own cars to have two places to play, just in IT? Can't have it both ways.
One listing is enough for every car in IT. If a REGION wants to get additional race entries, actively encourage drivers to double-enter in ITE or another class they create. That's what we do here in SFR and it works great. Lots of people take advantage. We have ITX, which includes anything that's ever been classed in SS (allowing IT suspension mods), plus SM, ITA, ITB, and ITC cars. And then for ITS and ITR cars, they are encouraged to dual-enter in ITE.
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If you can build an EXACT replica of the "target" car with what you have, you're good to go. I know I'm not answering your specific question but it's because I don't know my Jetti well enough to be able to say for sure what differences might exist...
And "what Andy said" about the dual classification question. If a region wants more entries, there are all kinds of options available.
K
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