Re: Alfa Spider Performance

["Gregory S. Youngblood" <greg@domain.elided>]

I can provide a place to put it..

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Scott Fisher wrote:

> --- George Schweikle <schweikg@domain.elided> wrote:
> > Digesti,
> >
> > This is a great thread Russ has started, especially
> > in identifying different preparation levels. My
> > suggestion would be to organize a modification list
> > for the categories listed below.
>
> I'll be happy to edit, organize, and HTML-ify all
> these articles, and I'm sure SOMEBODY can find us a
> reliable place to put it -- I don't have a Web site of
> my own any more or I'd toss it there.  (Joe, what are
> the space/bandwidth limitations of AROO's Web site?
> Should I just talk to the Zaitses directly?)
>
> One nice thing about doing this on the Web: we don't
> have to organize it ONE way, we can organize it in
> SEVERAL ways.  So for example, George suggests a
> reasonable structure here:
>
> > 1. Street use (emissions compliant and who cares)
> > 2. AROC Autocross & Time trials
> > 3. SCCA Stock class Autocross (Solo II)
> > 4. SCCA Street Prepared class Autocross (Solo II)
> > 5. SCCA Time Trials (Solo I)
> > 6. SCCA Improved Touring racing (IT)
>
> But I can also imagine it organized so that you could
> follow links to suspension, engine mods, safety,
> reliability, etc. for each of those classes.  Get the
> idea?  It'd be like a big matrix (the spreadsheet
> idea), with "Classes" down one axis and "Systems" down
> the other.
>
> For example, here's something that would go there.  In
> the earlier message George responded to, Russ Neely
> had written:
>
> > Since the 82 is a street car and occasionally
> > autocrossed in Street Prepared, I could modify it
> > further.  The SCCA Street Prepared class allows
> > pretty much unrestricted intake.  That means Webers
> > are legal.  I am not sure what all can be done
> > legally with an EFI in this class.  I guess I need
> > to read the rule book I just bought.
>
> Google pointed me, in a few seconds, to this site:
>
> http://www.moutons.org/sccasolo/Rules/index.html
>
> I followed the links down to 14.10.C in the Street
> Prepared rules, which I have copy-and-pasted here:
>
> "Carburetors, fuel injection, intercoolers and intake
> manifolds are unrestricted. "
>
> In conversation with SCCA tech inspectors in the past,
> I have verified that they do NOT permit the logical
> extension of the sentence, "If INTAKE is unrestricted,
> and EXHAUST is unrestricted, then if I somehow
> CONNECTED them with a few tubes and a little spinning
> thingie..."  :-)  However, in Solo II SP classes,
> induction is really free -- use stock, modify it,
> replace it with something else, build a custom Haltech
> programmable FI system, you name it.
>
> I also know that the IT rules on fuel injection have
> just recently changed, and I don't know what they
> changed to (since I don't follow IT).
>
> >  Both cars have modified suspensions and
> > wider sticky tires. I could write a whole other
> > article on that.
>
> Clearly... So, shall we start collecting wisdom about
> what works, what doesn't, and most important what
> works *with* other things?
>
> Let's start putting the information together, and I'll
> play with some schemes for organizing it as it starts
> to collect.
>
> --Scott Fisher
>   Tualatin, Oregon
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