Calling Howard Wood or anyone else who has a Schedule K Sports/GT/Saloon car.
Given all the work I have done to find out what was used in period and I have a number of supporting documents - FIA papers, Sport Option Catalogs, articles etc should I look at applying for Schedule K on my COD for this car?
Absolutely and in my experience it is not too difficult, easy in fact. As discussed, I can only advise on my experience with the '02. I built the car following to the letter a build sheet I drew up after obtaining Homologation papers, the FIA Group 2 regulations for 1973 (because you need to nominate the actual period/year the car represents), some info gathered on the net (Frank de Jong's "Touring Car History" http://touringcarracing.net was a good starting point) and the current sched K regulations (because there are some catch-alls in there not necessarily covered by the other documents).Originally Posted by nzeder
When the car was ready for its paperwork I simply filled in the MSNZ form which basically outlined the modifications with supporting evidence from either of the above sources together with photos. MSNZ emailed me back over a few weeks with a couple of questions, I assume from their Historic Committee. With the application I included a quick (2 pages) overview of the race history of the model, the Homologation history (because in 1973 Ford and BMW were engaged in a furious homologation war between the works BDA Escorts and Alpina's 2002Tii to win the European Touring Car 2 litre class) and anything else I thought relevant.
Within a few weeks the application came back, honestly as simple as that. Frankly I found the roll cage certification process to be much harder, partly because the rules changed mid build and because a certain well known race preparer and MSNZ technical officer's advice turned out to be totally incorrect.
Rather than get involved in more detail here, I am happy to show you copies of my application and supporting documents.
Perfect reply Howard - I have downloaded the correct FIA papers for the period in question in my case the 1975 FIA Appendix J regs for Group 3 & 4 much like your Group 1 & 2 options - in fact Group 4 references the Group 2 regs for all its allowable modifications just the fact it is for 2 seater, 2 door cars not 4 seater (be it two or four doors) aka Grand Touring Cars (Group 3 and 4) is Touring Car (Group 1 and 2).
I have all the info I need and I think I will apply for Schedule K - are you running this weekend? Anybody know how I see the entries list - I have signed on to the motorsportentry.com website and there is a section for entries but nothing shows up - I guess you have to register for the event - bit hard when your car is still in bits
Regards
Mike Lucas
Last edited by nzeder; 12-06-2013 at 04:36 AM.
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