Didn't know there was a car count issue? All you need is 20 or so?

Yup & we still show up... 🤷*♂️
chilibowl has paid 10k to win for how long..
silver crown in the 80s paid more to win than now.
#itsAboutTheTrophy

If a $40k midget engine has 390+hp..why would those teams be worried about a $2k 350hp engine?

Put a $3k claimer to stop the spending on the bigger cube engines.

Not sure why you think it would obsolete anything except for the outrageous engine cost?

Show me a midget engine legitimately making 390+ HP and I will show you ocean front property in Arizona!

you are

Everybody makes the feature then! (which is good, cuz everyone that shows up gets the feature $!) ...but ya, I ran B-mains at Angell Park for a few years...never knew anyone cared about them, until they didn't have them; THEN (...there were more the last year or two, I'm not gona go back & count how many...lol); & people talked about how they missed them (meaning that was kinda cool that people liked them/did care about the B-main. Not saying anything bad about if there is or is not one at any track/sanctioning body, just my observation in regards to car counts being around 20 or so).

Agreed... heats have less meaning too if everybody makes the A

Maybe instead of changing the specs on the engines per se, why not allow an alternative engine package like a low comp V6? Then add weight to the "Hot" 4 banger cars as needed... Just spit balling.

What if, instead of increasing the cubic inches, they increased the volumetric efficiency of the production based engines via turbo/supercharging?

I wasn't going to do this, and I know I'll get burned, but my feelings on the D2 midget, is first of, come up with a better name, do kinda what Montpelier is doing, and make it a kinda run what you brung class, as long as it is an engine out of a production passenger car, 4 cyl, stock block, no bigger than 2.5l, no bigger than .030 over, stock stroke, but allow rods, pistons, valves, springs, cams, port work, mostly what a guy can do on his own, no race based engines, possibly the older ones, but I've done some research on this, and I've built a 2.0 for less, a lot less than 5k, which is in the ball park for a good, competitive midget engine, IMHO. Plus, look a bit closer at the pay out, get it at least as much as the Tq's and mini's pay, when I was a lot younger, a long time ago, midgets were all the rage, because they provided the entertainment that people were looking for, they were a lot less costly than most other forms, and a good team could stuff some $$ in their pocket for an evening of fun, I don't see how owners can justify the cost of the National engines, plus the costs of the cars, it simply doesn't calculate for me, and evidently many others. I think in the hands of the right people, this could happen, I never did like "stock" classes, have you ever had to tech a "stock" engine, it isn't pleasant. Make it easy, or KISS if you want, and you might just get surprised. Just my thoughts.