Prep Differences Between SM and ITx

[Dano77]

how about "different".

The question isnt which makes more power, it whats different between the 2 classes. My belief was that STx would allow compliant IT cars to compete at IT weight. SM cars and IT cars have different compiance issues and weights. They arent the same.

I have no dog in either fight but its a good discussion so far.

Dan
77 IT7

[Andy Bettencourt]

The question isnt which makes more power, it whats different between the 2 classes. My belief was that STx would allow compliant IT cars to compete at IT weight. SM cars and IT cars have different compiance issues and weights. They arent the same.

I have no dog in either fight but its a good discussion so far.

Dan
77 IT7

100% true...and this is why it was the right decision years ago to NOT allow SM cars, in SM prep to be automatically legal for their respective IT class. Why? The ITAC has no control over the SMAC and what future allowances they will implement in the name of parity or whatever.

At the end of the day, a full-tilt-boogie 1.6 SM will have 5-10 things done to it that are not legal for IT...but at the current time, those things do not eclipse the IT performance envelope. I would think that this would hit the ITAC's desk well before it was a bother to the STAC.

[Chip42]

The question isnt which makes more power, it whats different between the 2 classes. My belief was that STx would allow compliant IT cars to compete at IT weight. SM cars and IT cars have different compiance issues and weights. They arent the same.

I have no dog in either fight but its a good discussion so far.

the question I was answering was which set of rules makes more power..

but you are correct, they aren't the same. there ARE cars that are compliant to both SM and IT (maybe with a RP in or out) but a more full-on built to either rule set makes the car illegal for the other. determining which way a car is built and using that info to establish what weight is allowed for ST, rather than allowing an "IT like" SM to run at IT weight w/o RP is, I think, what tGA is trying to prevent.

the weights aren't hugely different though, at most ~100#s, so I worry more about an SM rules head on an IT rules short block in an IT car with IT bolt-ons making more power still and running at a weight not representative of the car (SM or IT)