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Aglet Racing, Formula 500 Team
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  The Infamous Rakavon Transfer Case


If you follow this class, you know about the hoo-haw currently going on about engine orientation. One builder (Jay Novak), in an attempt to put a 6'6" Titan in an F500, put in a direction-reversing transfer case to allow the engine to be turned around. That resulted in the car being protested at the Runoffs where it was held to be legal under the Rules. The Club Racing Board responded by crafting a (IMHO) poorly worded new regulation to outlaw this configuration which they quickly reworded to something better written, but (IMHO again) still not necessary.

It's now up to the BOD, I hope they come down on the side of reasonable innovation and not on the side of those crying that the sky will fall from the heavens if the engine is allowed to be installed "backwards" - just like it is in many snowmobiles...
 
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