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kendirt (Offline)
#113 3/11/17 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by DAD:
Roy

Goes to show you that there might still be a little interest in Midget racing. The D2's have come a long way. Automotive motors and M/C motors continue to race well with one another. My only observation is that the race in both Georgia and Illinois were run by M/C powered cars. Like I said I do not think that M/C engines are the wave of the future however. The race in Georgia was won with luck, driving, being at the right place and the right time, and an engine that was so old that by Mini Sprint standards it would probably have a had a hard time even finishing up front at a weekly Mini Sprint event.

The reason that the M/C engines are not the way to go is they are getting more expensive and harder to find all the time and design changes are making them harder and harder to get into a car, and then you always have that cantankerous chain to mess with.

Here again don't let facts get in the way of your story:

Pretty sure DuQuoin was won with an Ecotech.

An 06 R1 is more than capable of running to the front of any D2 race.

In what world is a torque tube + quick change less expensive, less maintenance than a chain and two sprockets?

Guys like you do more damage to this deal. Anyone who's not real technical and thinking about getting into this class reads threads like this and says "Whoa, looks like a cluster." When in fact it's pretty simple and inexpensive to race one of these cars if you've got your stuff together at all.

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