FredC

What time on Friday?

Jas0nn

How does from 2:15-2:40 sound? White enclosed trailer with "Popular Mechanics" decals - help yourself to drinks.

FredC

Shoot. I will doing the fun race as I haven’t started a race in 4 years. Will find you after. Keep one or 2 for me :-)

Jas0nn

That was a joke - 2:15 is our qualifying session!

Let's say 5:30ish?

White Enclosed - Bright Blue #27 car

FredC

Cool. Ya, looked at the schedule after. See you then.

Jas0nn

Reminder: 5:30 beers, were on the other side of the garages (towards T1), 2nd row!

FredC

Summit appears promising with 6 rows of E cars registered... and 3 E cars are listed in Vintage - could they move to E? 15 E cars would be a very stout field.

Jas0nn

Or at least double dip in E!

Cogito_Ergo_Zoom

Interesting thread. A lot of what has been discussed here applies to SP996 and how it was allowed to be killed off. The problem with PCA is class proliferation and a lack of effective scruitineering. Once people lose faith that everyone is playing within the spirit of the rules, the class is dead.

good hands

I think a big part of spec 996 or anything 996 is the fear of the dreaded IMS bearing that has unwarrantedly scared off a lot of people. I raced my koni 996 for 5 years with no issues and would happily buy another. Had it not been for the DFI Caymans in GTB rendering it a bit uncompetitive I'd probably still have it. They did drop the weight for the 996's since I sold and Andrew Gianone and his dad have proved it to be competitive again. It was also pretty sweet when Porsche was selling crate motors for 9k.

sbelles

Not SP1s, at least not here in the NE. There were none in NJ and there's only 4 signed up for the 944 Cup Nationals at Summit Point. SP3 seems to be growing though.

Cogito_Ergo_Zoom

I agree, the fears are overblown. The same risks apply to SPB and that doesn't seem to have stopped anyone either.

I know I'm courting disaster by saying this out loud, but the crate motor I put in my car in 2014 has been nothing but dead reliable. The only thing I've had to do to it is tighten up a few bolts on the oil pump housing. I just whipped it for 3 days in 103 degree heat at the Texas Motor Speedway roval and it never skipped a beat, not to mention it took home 3 wins. I credit a lot of that to the fact that it's had an accusump on it since day 1 and has been pre-oiled nearly every time it has been started. A Chrysler powertrain engineer told me one time what percentage of the wear and damage that occurs to an engine on cold start and I forget the specific figure, but I believe him.

Back on topic, I think a good idea would be to consolidate SP996, SP997, and SPC in a single class equalized by power/weight similar to the NASA formula. OK, sorry for the sidetrack, back to the discussion on E...

FredC

Good point about consolidation. D, E, F air cooled cars all in one class. Heck throw G in there too. All those aircooled cars run on R7s.... 944s can race in SP classes and boxsters with spbox. Just need a place for those boxsters who don't fit in. I do not advocate robbing from 1 class to pay another.

good hands

Consolidation seems to be a hot word, and rightly so. A/C 911 would be a really nice class. Spec 911 W/C would be awesome too.

Frank 993 C4S

It would be tough to do this fairly by weight only.