Gladiators in the Steel Palace

So the Spencer rules are up. Finally. They’re identical to the Chemung rules. Which is good and bad. It’s good because they’ve allowed Vortecs and admitted that people are moving their upper control arms and are allowing it. And they didn’t specify a particular muffler. So yay. Unfortunately, they are allowing floaters but aren’t allowing anything but straight street headers and pipes. And they still won’t allow bearings in the trailing arms. Or anything but stock dimension upper fronts. Why do they put rules in there against stuff that’s not a competitive advantage?

Added to all that, the body rules are contradictory and vague. Is my body legal? Is Jason’s? Is Kelly’s old Daytona?

So now I’m wondering what the thinking behind some of these rules is. Why is there a ride height rule? Or at least, why is it 6″ (or 5″ or 3″)? If you can move the control arm mounts, why specify a particular control arm? Why allow floaters? Why isn’t there a camber rule for them?

Why did Spencer open up the rules to be just short of the NYSS and Big 10 rules? I’m confused and conflicted…

So I won’t be at the Expo. Well, not with my car anyway. I’ll be down on Sunday with the boy to see Dad’s car and all the people that had time and heat. It looks like things are warming up in the next week or so so I’ll be getting to all the stuff I was going to put off until after the show.