Vettes in AI?

[Rsmith350]

Start a new off shoot, let the s-197, the new camro, the Vette and others in! You can call it"AA" for American Aluminum

Then you can really freak your wife out when you tell her where you're going for the weekend

[BlueFirePony]

...and sounds like I can teach you a thing or two about how to tech a car been looking under all sorts of cars like this looking for stock stuff and non-stock stuff for years...

Great, then teach them how to tell the difference between the stock S197 ABS unit and the FR500 ABS unit.

[RichardP]

Start a new off shoot, let the s-197, the new camro, the Vette and others in! You can call it"AA" for American Aluminum

I like a twist on this idea. Kick the S197's out of AI into a new group with the Vettes, etc. Give AI back to the folks that built their cars to the intent of the class and didn't just buy a turn key race car...


Richard P.

[donovan]

I like a twist on this idea. Kick the S197's out of AI into a new group with the Vettes, etc. Give AI back to the folks that built their cars to the intent of the class and didn't just buy a turn key race car...


Richard P.

I agree

[marshall_mosty]

I agree

"AIV" and "Spec S197/Vette Challenge". I like it..

[Dulaney]

I like a twist on this idea. Kick the S197's out of AI into a new group with the Vettes, etc. Give AI back to the folks that built their cars to the intent of the class and didn't just buy a turn key race car...
Richard P.

+2

[Rsmith350]

I like a twist on this idea. Kick the S197's out of AI into a new group with the Vettes, etc. Give AI back to the folks that built their cars to the intent of the class and didn't just buy a turn key race car...


Richard P.

American Sport Series........

[Casey_SS]

Kinda like the GRM ultimate track car challenge - have a class for turn-key / professionally developed cars and another for those of us who slapped a cage in a street car and are "developing" it over many years as the budget permits. If it's not practical to move either group out of AI, maybe regions like ours should consider a split points system. Guys who built their own car could compete for a season "constructor's" championship and the turn-key guys could compete for a "manufacturer's" championship, at least at the regional level. Doesn't establish parity but it at least acknowledges the gap...

[BlueFirePony]

"AIV" and "Spec S197/Vette Challenge". I like it..

Where's fhe F' you emoticon?

[BlueFirePony]

Kinda like the GRM ultimate track car challenge - have a class for turn-key / professionally developed cars and another for those of us who slapped a cage in a street car and are "developing" it over many years as the budget permits. If it's not practical to move either group out of AI, maybe regions like ours should consider a split points system. Guys who built their own car could compete for a season "constructor's" championship and the turn-key guys could compete for a "manufacturer's" championship, at least at the regional level. Doesn't establish parity but it at least acknowledges the gap...

Just so its clear to everyone (should be, but there's some shit I keep reading btw the lines) - my S197 is a street car with a cage and I am "developing" it over many years as the budget (and just as importantly the time and talent) permits. Kyri and I were wanting to start the build on our second car and to run both in AI in which case its planned to be a salvaged S197 with a carb'd 351 5 speed, $1500 suspension, $2k brakes and home brew aero. We had planned to take the same approach as with the #404 (keep it a couple days work from CMC for a variety of reasons) but now the S197 fear/hate is full on in CMC and apparently creeping around in AI so I am really starting to rethink whether NASA is worth the effort....I'll surface again in December before I pull the trigger. Have fun at NOLA...see some of you in Austin.