JD in clean air is unreal…

[Rajflyboy]

Eldora is coming up and my boy from Gray Court, SC is going to put a whooping on the 49 😁 You know that team is at the shop every day getting the car perfect for this race.

[lurker]

MasterSbilt_Racer,

Thank you very much! Droop is more understandable now. “game the process” is much-much more understandable too. Smart thinking types always figure a way around whatever it is rules wise. What if the LR quarter panel is damaged during the race? What then? As messed up as the bodies are, not everyone is going to measure the same droop? Correct? Sound like this conversation could go on forever. haha

Thanks again for the insight.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Lurker,

You are welcome. Yes, some guys have the lr quarter panel tapered more towards the center of the car than others. More taper will allow the left side of the body to be higher than those with less taper. There are a million setup variables that will change how it measures out as bump travel induced in the front wheels from jacking the chassis will influence the t bar height. You can change how the rear hangs under the car. You can even game the position of the jacking point a little bit. The measurement has become much more complicated than they envisioned. I think it was a knee-jerk decision that was implemented for the wrong reasons. That's why I listed the question and answer process that should have taken place. Personally, our cars will not even come close to passing. I could make it pass, with no impact to the cars handling or deck height on the track, but I have no need to. We quit racing with these guys 4 years ago. We got tired of buying all the new stuff they required of us every winter.
I'm fairly certain a lot of current racers have done a similar thing to make the cars pass, but in their case they need a trick shock or their handling was affected.

There are racers saying the rule is dumb because they can lower the t bar and then pass. In their mind, the rule is then a failure because it didn't address the suspension travel directly. I go back to the question process again. Is it to address suspension travel or spoiler height? This again shines a light on the failure of the rule as the rules makers have failed to properly inform the racers of what the goal is.