Originally Posted by kdobson:
I know you have listed this in an earlier thread, Dad... but let's do it again. If I was going out to our area car dealers and Powersports dealers (Hello SDHill if you read this) and wanted to round up some bonus money for racers that win with various badges... knowing that the Ecotech is probably the most common direct drive option... list for me the production engines from various manufacturers that are realistically capable of competing in a DII class like we had last week at Jacksonville.
It would be nice to get some old fashioned battle of the badges on production-based engines going again.
Kdobson
Well Chrysler has the Neon and Ford has the DuraTec, however I think the late model versions have been raised up to 2500cc that makes them 6 cubic inches too big. That little Honda does a pretty good job also. And like I said now the manufactures are making smaller motors and forcing the air in all by itself and then squirting the fuel into the combustion chamber like the diesel does. Times and engine design is changing at light speed. The rule makers need to learn to change also. The only way to make money however is to sell racers expensive race parts. Whenever a new class comes on board the "Speed Merchants" are in hot pursuit of them. Mini Sprints and the 600cc Sidewinder have had great success running basically stock Motorcycle Motors. But sure enough they can find ways of throwing lots of money at them also. Seems like they always have a ready made market in the racer.
Honest Dad himself
