k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,238 Member For: 15y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 13/10/19 01:20 PM Share Posted 13/10/19 01:20 PM you answered your own question... Tander was SVG's co-driver for this race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzanz Donating Members 573 Member For: 8y 7m 25d Gender: Male Location: NZ Posted 13/10/19 01:22 PM Share Posted 13/10/19 01:22 PM It was a rhetorical question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,238 Member For: 15y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 13/10/19 01:24 PM Share Posted 13/10/19 01:24 PM I see... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,751 Member For: 12y 8m 7d Posted 13/10/19 07:30 PM Share Posted 13/10/19 07:30 PM Post cannot be empty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,238 Member For: 15y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 10/11/19 06:03 AM Share Posted 10/11/19 06:03 AM Big congratulations to Scott McLaughlin on the championship victory Back-To-Back (which should have been back-to-back-to-back haha) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,403 Member For: 14y 3m 3d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 10/11/19 11:05 AM Share Posted 10/11/19 11:05 AM its just 'supercars' now wont be long till the kia stinger is in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,238 Member For: 15y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 10/11/19 11:15 AM Share Posted 10/11/19 11:15 AM been that way for ages... they even changed the name to VASC (a sponsorship addition to that initialism) but it doesn't change the fact that the cars are still 5L pushrod v8's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,751 Member For: 12y 8m 7d Posted 11/11/19 08:08 AM Share Posted 11/11/19 08:08 AM I feel the penalty for running a higher lift cam then accepted is a slap on the wrist.As if they would not check every cylinder to ensure they are getting enough lift. They would not sacrifice lift at all. Then to turn around and say ahh it was a manufactuer error we didn't pick up on. They would have had that cam tucked away ready for Saturday at Bathurst for a long time. Guarantee there cam in the sunday engine is in spec. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 28,238 Member For: 15y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/11/19 08:53 AM Share Posted 11/11/19 08:53 AM well, another company builds their engines... and it comes in sealed because of that... they also got approval from supercars to change the engine due to some values that showed the engine may not survive the 1000km of the race which was potentially it getting too hot... the value of the higher lift of the valve was 3.5 thousandths of an inch over specification (700 is the value +10 thousands of an inch as allowable tolerance), so they were around a quarter width of a sheet of paper over-spec... this overspec occurred on 5 of 8 cylinders, but why not the other 3? surely if they were to overspec it to gain an advantage, then the entire 8 would be out of spec? the people checking on it confirmed that it didn't go over standard torque or horsepower values, so there was no gain in performance... those same people checking also said that the overspec was not done intentionally. all of those things combine to make it a "you stuffed up, don't do it again" sort of punishment (which I feel was considerably over-dealt, based on those same facts above, but that's just my personal opinion which is admittedly ford-biased) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,751 Member For: 12y 8m 7d Posted 12/11/19 05:50 AM Share Posted 12/11/19 05:50 AM 5/8 is the beauty of cheating. You cast doubt over whole thing to diminish the penalty/ backlash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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