Originally posted by roadRacer
If you finished first your first time out at a Pro Solo, you might get protested for something like the taillight cover, but probably not. Now if you went to the Solo II Nationals it is a different story. I know of one car in the past that in Street Prepared was protested over removing the windshield washer bottle. There was another one that was protested in Stock over a seat cushion that had been added. It happens and if it does, the protest committee usually goes by the letter of the law, they don't say that it is something that only weighs less than a pound.
Someone mentioned the cover over the spare tire in stock class. Let me explain what happened with that one time. The rules say that you have to remove all loose items from your car. It also says you can remove the spare tire and jack. In a MR2 of some vintage apparently if you remove the spare, there is no way to hold down the spare tire cover, which you can't specifically remove. But since it is therefore a loose item, someone removed it. It only weighed about a pound, but the initial ruling was that they were DQ'ed, but a clarification later came out saying that it could be removed if there were no provisions for securing it in place.
Most protests are not really about cheating so much as they are about defining grey areas in the rules (like this example). Plain and simple, most people don't cheat, but they interpret things differently. Very seldom will you find someone running say a ported cylinder head they know is illegal, but they will see some area of the rules that is not quite defined and try to do something there. The rules are not perfect and they never will be, but it is up to the competitors help define these things.
thanx for all the info. i guess i have been cheating. a taillight cover and two plastic pieces in the trunk. hell, i think i'm missing a plastic snap on one of those too. the differences a pound makes, lol.
but anyways, i got my promotion and more of a raise than i suspected so mods are gonna be coming, like the engine finally. guess i might as well find some plastic snaps also, lol.
next time i see you out there, hopefully soon, i'm gonna have to ask you something about the intake i'm gonna make. i can't explain it on here, but I want to see what you have to say about it.
Originally posted by blah
We all know how fast Dave is in that damn accord. ( think he is sprayin) I have heard of people being protested in a stock class for drilling a 1/2 inch hole in there interior panel in order to adjust rear struts.(illegal weight reduction) So my recomendation is that you have your car fully legal to go to the pro b/c when you piss some of those top guys off they wont be very happy. I mean look what I did when you pulled away from the WRX on the off ramp!
'bout damn time you got on the board. and you still complainin' about the onramp? good, hehe. you want a second chance?
oh yeah, let's not forget, that was on the chromies
