Originally Posted by Jrp4554:
Without just using the phrase "it's against the rules", will someone explain the advantage of leaving the transmission on. All I keep hearing is how its against the rules. No one has offered a valid reason as to why other that's just the way it is. It sounds like he took a stock motor and put it in a tq. What's wrong with that? Stock motors off wrecked bikes can be bought off ebay for less than a grand. Then you're eliminating having to take it to a machine shop and having it specially cut down. Just curious. Not trying to sling mud. (no pun intended)
Jeremy, isn't that good enough, it is against the rule, something that most of us are required to live by, I explained the rule, as it is written, and that is what we live by. And, as a side note, we run a "traditional TQ Midget", we are allowed clutches, but no gear boxes. The object is to not push the cars out of the pipeline, that adhere to this, and other rules, we know going in, that when we pick another engine, other than a long stroke, SOHC Honda motor, that we are at a disadvantage, because of the rule, we can't multiply the RPM by going thru ANY KIND of gear reducer, except in the rear end. I am running a 600cc Yamaha, the old 600r, and it is very competitive, and very inexpensive, I have less in 4 motors, than a set of rods for a Honda costs, the first engine I put together, and is still in good running condition, had over 80 nights of racing on it, before I pulled it, and put another one in, and these are motors out of bikes, with a minimum of 7,000 miles on them with no new parts put in them, before they go in the car. Like I said, this is what the MAJORITY of the car owners want, so it will probably stay that way for many years into the future. And, nowhere does it say you have to cut off the trans, several of the guys just unload the gears, use that space as a sump, so they don't have to go to a dry sump, hook up to the crankshaft, bolt it to the motorplate, and go racing. How easy could that be?
Bob