They did not invite me to the rules meeting, Go figure. But from my observations are the rods are not the weak link in either engine. Perhaps stronger rod bolts for the automotive engines but stock rods at 6500rpm's should work fine for quite a long time. Now pistons lets see, many cycle motors leave the factory at 13 or 13.5 to 1 compression ratio. some after market pistons might bump things up a half ratio or so, quite ample to perform well with Methanol.
The auto engine may be as low as 9 to 1 compression ratio. At that ratio they will probably drop off a little power when converting to Methanol.
So just like MMSA and most Mini Sprint groups I would mandate "Stock Engines" for motorcycle engines. Drop all the gobbly goop about ecm's and ways of altering them.
For the automotive engines I would allow them aftermarket pistons, in fact since most aftermarket pistons are for huffers or street cars and do not take into consideration Methanol powered Midget racers I would suspect that the piston makers come up with a piston with more compression built into them for this application.
Honest Dad himself
