By my interpretation of the rules a lightened flywheel is illegal - what does everyone else think? It's not specifically mentioned as an item you're allowed to change and the catch all statement about mods not specifically mentioned are not allowed seems to cover it?

I could be wrong ...

"Lightened flywheel - £80"-you'll not be doing that of course young Tim since it's outside the rules..............??

John

Surely 'blueprinting' is outside the rules too?

IN FACT - There is no reason to have an engine taken apart/re-built by anyone as you can't do anything to them according to the rules.

So it kind of begs the question, what are these tuners doing?

The rules allow you to fit an exhaust, air filter, PC3 or Dynojet kit and set the cam timing... nothing else.

How engines range from 58-68 is a bit confusing considering the lack of mods allowed.

Must be some good engines and some not so good engines I suppose.

Thanks John - you've just saved me £80 ;)

What about if you remove the flywheel all togeather?

That saves you 2 pounds :lol:

Not all dynos are equal. Not all are calibrated. Not all are calibrated or maintained to the same std and some tuners add "the bling factor" to the readings to gain business. I have personal experience of this myself.

As 600 Pantah racing engines in the early 80's were delivering 80+bhp then I suppose it's not beyond the means of some to attain more than 70 now...whether those means are legal or not is open to question.
If people are getting 65-68 now then they are in minitwin territory (most sv's are in the 65-69bhp bracket) which, for an old air-cooled 2 valve motor is pretty good going!

[Edited on 14-9-2005 by twpd]

Looks to me that its time to strip some engines at cadwell.How much does a protest cost ? X 20 = ?

Who's gunna check them and know what they're looking at?

Could be the most fun all year :D

...who's not coming to Cadwell now? :lol:

[Edited on 15-9-2005 by domski]

quote of the year imho.