MSNZ - Schedule K and T&C and maybe FIA HTP related questions info etc

[Howard Wood]

nzeder,
Your read of the document is exactly as I understood it too. Specific examples probably better illustrate the process for obtaining a Sched K classification and your example of a Datsun 240Z is a good one.For that reason I will briefly explain the background to some date and specification decisions I needed to make over the '02 build and subsequent application.

From about 1972 to 1975 BMW and Ford were engaged in a furious battle involving homologating all sorts of "optional extras" for the 2002, CSL, Escort and Capri in an effort to win both the overall European Touring Car Championship and the 2 litre class. In theory to become homologated 1000 examples had to be produced. The game changer was the arrival of Ford's BDA engine so for 1974 the FIA changed the rules to allow 4 valve heads if 100 examples were built together with virtually unlimited bodywork modifications. The 1974 BMW works 2002s had the 295 hp M12/7 Formula 2 engine, rear mounted radiators, wings and 14inch wide rear tyres! Not an easy car to replicate even if you have a spare 50,000 Euros to buy an M12/7 engine. Plus they are butt ugly!

My research suggested that the last of the 2 valve M10 engined Group 2 cars from 1973 had the best combination of homologated components and by a happy co-incidence the factory build date of my car was late 1973. At this point I started trolling through the 250 odd pages of (in German) Homologation pages and supplements kindly given by BMW Mobile Tradition and compiled a build sheet long before putting a spanner near the car.

This process obviously is easier with a "new" build. Almost any car with competition history, unless abandoned in a barn will have been modified, often dramatically, in order to keep it competitive or because the expensive pukka bits broke and were too expensive to repair.