Quote Originally Posted by Racer Rog View Post
Well Russ, and in capital letters as well, and Crunch you know well Ive got a couple of those engines sitting in the shed!, jokes aside I think when looked at in the cold light of day, at this point if there was to be an engine change at this point in time, the Honda holds all the cards, this could change, if a better option came up, but Honda have put their hands in their pockets and developed a solution, has Ford?
Roger
I attended an SCCA event in Virginia last Friday, most of the FFs were running Honda engines. Chatting to one of the car owners, his view was that the Honda required less maintenance than the Kent (no lapping the valves between qual and Race). Appears there will soon be no Kents running and at that stage they will remove the parity restrictors which will give (I think) about another 18 reliable HP. The Kents and restricted Hondas were very even in lap times so I believe they would work well in NZ, drivers could keep the Kents without worry of falling behind speed-wise and the older cars wouldn't lose their period configuration.