Quote Originally Posted by Storm Trooper View Post
not to mention increasing the capacity of the oil, cooling the oil, supporting the bearing caps.
Again, all that crap is overkill and a waste of money (on a 230 hp car with shit tires). At the current state of things, does this need to be revisited? Probably.



Quote Originally Posted by Storm Trooper View Post
Big brakes were not needed, 260 hp was not needed! But people wanted them so.....the rules are telling us where not to waste our money?

NASA, not the CMC management, mandated the S197 Mustang and the LS Camaro. Neither one of them could realistically get to the 230 hp number. Once you've gone there, along with wider and stickier rubber, big brakes actually save money over the old crap that had to be replaced often if you do enough events. Do I like where the whole thing has gotten to? No, and I don't believe many people do. If crap tires were mandated way back when, we wouldn't have needed big brakes and we wouldn't be hurting transmissions, rear ends, etc. at the rate that we are. We are literally tearing the tubs apart on these ancient cars. And we are spending a lot of money doing it. The whole thing doesn't make much sense...


Richard P.