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    HPNPC Randy Canfield Sportsmanship Award

    On a tangent I see on the SCCA site that Randy Canfield hit his 65th (!) anniversary of SCCA membership this year! A shout out to Randy if you are reading this! Congrats as well to the winners of the HP Sportsmanship award!
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    Suspension setup tools – what do you actually use?

    Honestly, mostly just toe plates and camber gauge in addition to standard hand tools.
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    January 2026 Fastrack

    $50 says ask again and get a few letters (by known HP competitors and assorted nobodies like me) of support and they'll say yes at a slightly silly weight... But I do understand the frustration! PS: Why were so many 914s orange?
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    January 2026 Fastrack

    Greg - First, Merry Christmas! Second, how long since you asked for the HP 2.0 914? Maybe time to try again? And get some supporting letters this time?
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    January 2026 Fastrack

    OK, I give up, my GA decoder ring seems to be broken this AM....?????
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    Prod Scirocco in NC

    This car looks like a bargain but I'm personally not in the market for any more cars, just trying to connect the dots for anyone actually interested.
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    Prod Scirocco in NC

    Anyone know the car or who owns it?
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    Prod Scirocco in NC

    I know nothing about this car or who owns it, but it looks like a serious build at a cheap price. It has obviously been sitting for a while. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1506849500348639/
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    December 2025 Fastrack

    A friend just texted me a pic of a caged slider chassis that would be perfect for an LP HP build! Back when Col Hauser had his car, afaik the chassis wasn't much if at all beyond current LP rules. Not sure what was done since then. I'm unlikely to ever switch from my Scirocco back to the...
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    December 2025 Fastrack

    Yay, now I own 2 HP cars! Just need to actually get out and race more.. (My Datsun 1600 hasn't run for decades, would need massive upgrades to run again, but it's cool to see it in HP as an LP car. No idea if the engine will make enough power in LP trim but let's hope so. The chassis on my...
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    Sway bar as front lower control arm locating device

    I interpret the rule to say that the links that geometrically locate the upright have to attach to the chassis in the stock location. In the case of the TR7/8 and other "classic McPherson strut" cars (like my old Mk1 Fiesta etc, mostly older European Fords) the sway bar is one of those links...
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    October 2025 Fastrack

    Except the Prod rules limit wheel size, not tire size. My issue with the rule as written isn't that I think that there is a significant performance advantage with a 7.1" wide wheel, but rather the enforcement (or possible overzealous enforcement) of an "absolute maximum" dimension that nobody...
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    October 2025 Fastrack

    Those are measuring on the outside of the wheel rim, and presumably have a built in thickness assumption, as the actual dimension is to the inside of the bead seat at some hard to define point. I'd assume that they would get you to the nearest half inch - probably. Which in practical terms is...
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    October 2025 Fastrack

    I agree 100% that any actual physical discrepancy (ie cheating) would be width, not diameter. And of the two, width seems harder to measure and thus more subject to incorrect measurement. And yes, width was already there - I simply hadn't thought about it. But I DON'T think it's amiss to...
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    October 2025 Fastrack

    The only reason that I even thought about it (with respect to width OR diameter) was the change. But when I DID think about it, I remembered Prod cars (at least one anyway) being DSQ'd for a valve 0.001" over the maximum dimension. No, I have no thoughts that anyone is specially making...
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    October 2025 Fastrack

    Well here's my chance to win the Runoffs. Come in 23rd and protest everyone on front of me based on a poorly worded wheel dimension rule. Strikes me that as worded somewhere between "all" and "half of all" wheels that are nominally at the max size for the class would be in violation of this...
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    September 2025 Fastrack

    Even worse, different data formats. I have extensive experience with data acq, and even sold / supported data systems for BOP to SCCA and IMSA. It would be waaaay too difficult to try to use the data from 3 or 4 different brand systems for comparison as NONE file/data compatible and all have...
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    September 2025 Fastrack

    I saw that too. There must be a specific back story to that. On my first pass I failed to see the specific car bit and was concerned that EVERY enclosed car was going to have an Lemons-looking cube stapled to it.
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    Sway bar as front lower control arm locating device

    I would thus say that Mr. Plucker's summary above is legal. I will restate: Produce an alternate anti roll bar (ARB) that primarily serves as a good suspension location link. It has to have the stock mounting point but doesn't have to use an identical mount - just one in the same place in all...
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