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  #18 7/8/15 8:18 AM
Originally Posted by xoxide:
To some, ti or carbon isn't about the lightweight advantage.... Some people just live having nice parts.

Grade 8 bolts are bulky and ugly. We had a surplus of ti bolts from our aprintcar days so a lot of those got put on our midgets just because we had them, ttheyre stronger, and they look nicer then some bulky gold grade 8 bolt.

I've been harping on Wayne for carbon for months now... again- because I like the way it looks. Luckily we met a mutual ground for that subject but if he allowed it, I'd run it- not for the weight advantage since I'm already right at 1125 but for the looks.
Xoxide

You ain't seen my grade 8 bolts after about 15 minutes in my lathe (a 1/4 inch hole all the way through it machined bevel for rod end side of the head for clearance and an under cut on the head to cut down on weight and make it look trick). The problem is a lot of guys race out of magazine articles and their back pocket. Sometimes a little ingenuity goes a long way in racing. Wayne's heart is in the right place but it makes him come across as a bleeding heart liberal. Let the guys with more money than brains run what they want (make them put the weight in the most un helpful place) . The next season some good old boy will get a heck of a deal on that race car that did not perform up to the rich guys expectations and he can move on to another "Hobby".

Wayne most of them guys don't plan on crashing>>>in fact If my memory hasn't failed me they are usually the guys that complain about some aggressive young kid when he taps them to move them over to get by them. Perhaps a better racing Hobby for a lot of guys might be Vintage Racing.

Honest Dad himself
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