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Keith,
I'm going to play devils advocate here, but these are the first questions that come to my mind.
How are you going to overcome the problems you had when building the Focus Engines? There was often a long wait to get motors, especially in the beginning?.
Will this be like the Focus Series where the rebuilds had to be sent back to your shop?
Will the motors be tagged like the Focus Motors?
Maybe you don't have all of the answers to these questions yet, but these are some of the questions that people will ask.
In the USAC Focus deal there seemed to be alot of finger pointing on both sides, but I have to say that from my experience and until Ford really got involved, engine delivery times to the midwest where eratic.
Frankly, If a powerful and REALIABLE spec motor can be delivered for $10,000 and the purses are $175 Start and $1,200 to win, then I would be very flexable to the idea.(Not that I am a person of power, but a skeptic on this subject as a whole.)
I wasn't happy with the way the Focus Series was brought in and implimented, but it did do one thing that Keith was right about all along and I have to say history proves my fears to be somewhat misplaced; it brought people to midget racing. The Kenyon cars should not be overlooked in this area as well and Powri was able to use the micros in that same way as well.
My fears were that the Focus Series would take races from the mdgets and it did to a degree, but in the areas where the Focus,Kenyon and Micros all competed along with the midgets, many of those areas have fairly healthy car counts for the midgets.
I just am always uncomfortable when rigid and one set of specific rules on things such as engines are put in place because then that means there has to be a good and easy way for someone to tech them and someone willing to do so.
Good Luck
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