Andy
I for one am for letting the TQ's race with us if they wish, they are in a time of flux right now. The old 750 Honda's are drying up and they are in search of a new power plant. They are stuck between a newer design MC motor that they can't get geared low enough without resorting to the little bitty micro wheels and tires or a Briggs and Stratton Vanguard Motor. They kind of boxed them selves in a hole thinking back 40 years ago that no one would ever produce a motor that needed to be run at 15,000 RPM's to make any power and outlawed any kind of gear reduction. So now they are going to have to take an antique U-Joint that wasn't designed to run 8000 rpm's and spin it up to 15000 rpm's. Should be interesting. I suggested switching to a slower revving 1000 cc motor and they almost had a heart attack.
Reminds me about our argument about the BMW motor? What the heck did you say in the above post and has Mark been reading any more magazine articles about how powerful the BMW and New Kawasaki was supposed to be and had another hissy fit.
To me it looks like the automotive motors will be most viable and the cheapest way to go racing, and will save us a whole lot of sweat in the pits changing gears. As far as the 2 year deal goes been there done that>>>even the most enlightened of us can't tell one from the other and them numbers on the back don't help a bit.
Like old Rodney King once said can't we just all try to get along? We are all addicted to the same drug>>>>we all for the most part want to and some of us have to do it on the cheap. Rules cost money!!!!! We have three classes of race cars TQ's being the oldest>>Mini Sprint being second oldest>>>and the stock block Automotive Midget being the youngest. There is not 10 cents worth of difference between them all. TQ's have kept growing over the years using Midget components and wheels and tires until they are more like 7/8th Midgets. The Mini and Automotive started out midgets...Why not consolidate and make it easier on all of us. It doesn't have to happen over night. Race cars have a very high attrition rate>>>when this old Kaw of ours goes and it will and if our new old Kaw that we have laid up is outlawed we will probably retire or get an Eco tec and race up north.
Honest Dad himself
