The State of NZ Motorsport.

[Racer Rog]

ScrewDriver, the lady must have lead a very sheltered life, thank your lucky stars she has never meet me, and the Lord only knows what she would have thought if she had visited a race meeting in the early 70's, meetings these days are rather tame compared with what went on way back then, on another subject, level entry single seaters, why do we still have an old nail of a engine, which some people have spent vast amounts of money on, I have been quoted figures of $20k, no wonder grids are empty, the SCCA has addressed this, and called this class Formula F, and they use two engines, the Kent, and the Honda Fit engine, and a package from Honda Proformace is about US$15k, or you can supply your own engine and get the add ons from them, yes its EFI, has a restrictor, but that the extent of any mods to the engine it self ( other than the dry sump, ECU and gearbox adaptor) you can not touch the engine parts, they must remain standard, so there is not the great expense of making a engine that was designed to give 68HP make 112HP, plus being a Honda, you don't need to pull it down every meeting, they are starting to get very good fields in this class, with a lot of old racers coming back and converting their Kent powered cars to Honda.
Roger

[jim short]

About two yrs. ago the idea was to follow the AUSSIES, There Form. Ford use a Focus unbreakable motor they buy and dyno batch of five or ten?when you need a motor it costs $12.000 and you buy it of the FFclub,but doing this will not keep engine builders happy in NZ