what do you do when a guy brings a fast mini stock to the track for an invitational?
teching mini stocks for anything but basic things like ride height and weight is next to impossible
I'm feel for the track on this one.
which tech knows what parts came stock on a Honda for instance? so much mix and match that the best Honda guy around couldn't keep up. they say at Sauble, tech doesn't even open the hoods any more. Any 16 year old kid with a laptop can program the ecu so teching that is out.
do any mini stock techs know there is a way to alter the dizzy on a 240 to fool the computer on timing? or a racing cam for "stock-lift" classes is readily available and very hard to spot?
what the heck is going on under the hood of an old vw? some sort of weird German fuel injection? good luck figuring that out.
What is the stock lift on a cavalier from 199? or 200?.
can you tell the difference between a stock neon computer and a $299 internet racing one? unlikely.
point is, when you have an invi that has 20 wildy different cars show up, tech doesn't have a chance. then you have guys looking over rules from tracks all over and saying "I'm a peterboro car" because that track gives them the lowest weight, softest rules, etc.
it sucks for 240s but i have no idea how to fix this problem. this doesn't seem right though.
Or maybe it's not a problem. weren't the MRE mini stock races pretty good?
btw, did i hear right that there was a Mini stock DQ saturday at Sunset?
Is RPM not mandated for these cars or are the engines so different that it is hard to enforce or specify what the RPM max should be for each model at each track? Each car in LM and SS needs a chip so why not minis? Instead of weight penalties why not different chips for different cars? Maybe this is already the case. I don't know that is why I'm asking.
Is RPM not mandated for these cars or are the engines so different that it is hard to enforce or specify what the RPM max should be for each model at each track? Each car in LM and SS needs a chip so why not minis? Instead of weight penalties why not different chips for different cars? Maybe this is already the case. I don't know that is why I'm asking.
RPM is generally limited by the computer. As one guy above stated it's very easy to tune a computer in most of the cars. Some are easier to detect than others. Problem with trying to limit every car to say 6500rpm is that the honda's need to rev higher than that to have any chance of competing. The only way to limit the RPM on a broad class range is if every car was the same, but that isn't going to happen at this point in the mini-stock game.
The only way to come around this would be for the tracks' to own every computer for every car and switch it up every week in a pool of computers. Problem is for example. will a 92 240 computer work for a 94?
And unless the track(s) did this and came together for invitationals, this idea of computer swapping would never work.
Ya this penalty is thanks to one car.