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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Subject: Re: DOHC on a V8 possible? (IROC vs. Trans-AM vs NASCAR)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.210038.17903@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <507.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> <BvpIBo.EC7@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Oct06.195610.22540@i88.isc.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:00:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct06.195610.22540@i88.isc.com> dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye ) writes:
- > Thanks. Of course, I was referring to the "high performance"
- >cars that these series run (*not* their production namesakes). All are
- >purpose built, tube frame, RWD live axle cars.
-
- > In the SCCA, the GT class allows you to run a live rear axle
- >in cars that originally had IRS.
-
- actually, for new GT class cars, my reading of the rather badly worded
- passage of the rulebook is that you _have_ to convert IRS cars to live
- rear ends.
-
- but then, nobody has ever accused the GT classes of being designed to
- keep costs down.
-
- richard
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