So while are - once again - bitching about turbos versus non-turbos in STU, can someone take a quick moment to answer the man's question...?
Jeebus.
- GA
So while are - once again - bitching about turbos versus non-turbos in STU, can someone take a quick moment to answer the man's question...?
Jeebus.
- GA
Eric - I wrote in with my thoughts about the general idea of the class when it was reimagined a few years ago. the path I like and the path the club chose to go were pretty significantly different. yes, I've been vindicated on some occasions but other than following along at home and perking up here very now and then I don't participate on any level in ST, so wont be writing in (I'll let those with skin in the game ask for such things). I have refocused on IT where I'd been playing in some form or another since the early 90s. I am on the ITAC, and appreciate the "write a letter" comment as it is what we should be doing with our ideas.
tGA - I think Eric did, to the best of his ability. the OP's question is valid, the rule doesn't make sense. might be that you STAC guys can shed light on how it came to be but clarifying it does seem to be improbable.
Completely concur. I don't remember the origin of the reg; it was something Eric brought up as a distinct possibility in reference to a letter/request, and another committee member said something like "let's just say you gotta keep the same number of throttle bodies" and we said "Ok, sounds good; next question"...
Honestly, as Kirk pointed out, this is kinda chasing our tails. We cannot possibly think of all situations and make individual rules to account for each...
- GA
Well, here's MY answer (note the signature).
If you install a STU-compliant 4TB engine into a STU-compliant 1TB car, you can run the engine's 4TB intake. If you install a STU-compliant 1TB engine into a STU-compliant 4TB car, you can run the 4TB intake. And, per the regs, you can build a 1" spacer to make it all fit.
Now, WTF this all means in the very unhappy world of BMW owners is beyond me (and, very quickly, going beyond my interest).
Eric had a reason for bringing this up in committee; if we can't remember why, then the point is moot.
- GA
So Greg, IYHO the rule is non-sensical and thus isn't enforceable?
I guess I should write the paper then.
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What makes the rule ambigous is somehow the words "for the installed engine" got left off of the TB limitation.
Therefore, the BMW in question would not have the option (assuming 6cyl) of using the ITBs from an engine that is not allowed in STU, even though it came in his chassis at some point in time.
I will submit a letter to get this clarified
Good call, D.
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