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Originally Posted by Wayne Davis
If you don't like D-2 rules you can always go race a national midget.....damn give it a chance to work its self out before all you na sayers throw it under the bus. Why can't you just LOVE midget racing period and not ***** about it....most of you are not ever gonna race a D-2 midget or a Badger 2.4...
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Wayne, I have been an owner and/or a part owner of a national midget since 1973, and I have just finished up building (yes, building not buying) a Badger legal 2.4 engine. I have never been a “deep pockets” guy. I have sacrificed way more than I ever should have in order to own and run a midget. My car WILL be racing in Badger this season. I would say that constitutes a “LOVE” for midget racing.
As far as giving this D-2 thing “a chance to work itself out,” I simply pointed out SOME of the fallacies of the ideas people are posting on this board. Besides, I didn’t know your series was a part of the POWRi or IMRA/USAC D2 series. My intent was not to ruffle anyone’s feathers, it was simply to educate some people on writing rules and then trying to enforce them. Mandating “stock” cams, without having the knowledge and equipment to properly inspect them, is setting yourself up to fail. People are going to cheat, and honest people are going to leave the sport, never to return. How is that going to “work out?” Allowing $6000 ignition systems (whether they are a performance advantage or not) while banning parts that improve reliability, is ridiculous. One D-2 engine builder has been advertising his modified “stock” valves for sale. You can buy stainless steel aftermarket racing valves for these engines for almost the same money that new factory O.E.M. stock valves cost. But the more reliable stainless steel valves are illegal. Of course, if you allow these low cost aftermarket valves, (NOT titanium valves) who would buy this guy’s valves? Hmm, was there possibly an agenda here?
I have even read posts elsewhere from people complaining about coated bearings in the D-2 series. How ridiculous is it to worry about somebody running coated bearings, when they don’t complain about $6000 ignition systems? Do people really want to tear engines down far enough to find coated bearings?
If you find anything that I have posted to be untrue, feel free to correct me. I can take the heat. If I couldn’t, I would not have posted on this board.
Mark Ray