SCCA “Street Prepared” allows for more changes than the TCA class of TC America. “Street Prepared” is used for SCCA autocross from what I understand and the SCCA road racing equivalent is Improved Touring (IT). There are cars that race in TCA that are close enough to IT spec that they get used in both capacities with… Read more

TC is about as simple as you can get in my opinion so I’m kind of interested in which parts you consider to be too fancy?  Read more

That would make for a truly boring oval race. Read more

That has existed for quite some time. https://www.tcamerica.us/ Read more

Congratulations. You just invented sports car racing. Read more

It will have to be a DOHC engine based on the same block and heads. The crank being the same is not a requirement. Read more

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They’re all connected so I don’t believe that there is a need to control them individually. Read more

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Fair. Read more

Don’t know that it has any specific purpose other than whatever the designer wanted plus whatever was best for aero. Read more

They are very likely to be hauling that mix of cars as the guys that are using this class of truck are the ones hauling used cars from auction.

New cars delivered to dealers are usually pulled by a bigger class of truck hooked up to a bigger trailer so it is very unlikely to be all Sedonas on that trailer. Read more

I think an early 80s diesel G-Wagen would be a good choice. Not a lot of wiring so you can get it going even it gets damaged and you can burn lots of stuff in it if fuel is scarce. Read more

Nice to get a first-person account of what happens that contains more than the usual snippets that we hear on TV from the front runners. I enjoyed your oversteer scale and am interested to see how much hate mail you get for calling Busch the modern day Intimidator. Read more

Drawings are coming from the European ETK website: https://www.parts.bmwgroup.com/tetis/startTetisAction.do?DOMAIN=Internet&APP=WebETK&ENTRY_ID=WebETK_START
I fully agree on the OEM side. It might not be worth it to them so this is more of a DIY focus as there is no proof that they will be taking the step. Read more

That’s probably not terribly hard. I haven’t looked at the catalog entries for that one but maybe there is a manual version in Europe? Read more

Thank you for using the proper name of the color. Read more

Most people don’t know this but Torch bought his first car before entering pre-school. Read more

Or maybe it’s OK to understand something and have a little fun with a non-critical TSB? Read more