Originally posted by Bill Miller:
There you go again Darin, trying to put words in my mouth.
First of all... what words am I trying to put into our mouth??
Second, I'll go ahead and answer my own question, since you aren't up to the challenge...
Changing the resistance values of the sensors that feed the ECU is currently NOT legal... It was in 2002, but in 2003, when the current ECU wording was put in place, this allowance was removed. We have requested that the CRB add it back in under Errors and Omissions, since we don't believe it should have been removed in the first place, and it potentially made many cars who had implemented this change illegal.
You don't have the mechanism, or the capacity to admit when you're wrong.
Oh, quite the contrary... If I am wrong, I'll admit it... But I'm not... Changing the resistance values of the water temp sensor, which is essentially the main one that gets changed, just fools the ECU into thinking the engine needs to be richer. It does that across the board, unless you use a manually variable resistor, in which case you'd be driving with one hand on the wheel and one on the knob to get the kind of on-the-fly adjustability and tuneability that say supply, or that can be tuned into a Weber with different emmulsion tubes, air correctors, idle and main circuits, etc...
If you're going to allowd motec in the stock box, then I agree w/ the people that say you should just allow any system that uses the stock harness and sensors. The way it's written now, it's no different than the old shock rule. Make people spend more money to achieve the same result, thereby putting it out of reach for some. If you leave it the way it is, you're helping perpetuate the performance gap between those that can spend the money, and those that can't.
Guess what, I don't disagree, but it's not up to me to decide. There are many that believe that if this rule is opened up as you suggest, it will make it mandatory to own a MOTEC to be competitive... right now, there are but a few out there who are actually doing this, compared to those that aren't...
As I said before, this is really a no-win situation, because there are issues at every turn... I wouldn't be suprised if nothing at all got changed, as the rule actually works fine the way it is... Doesn't make everyone happy, but nothing will.
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Darin E. Jordan
SCCA #273080, OR/NW Regions
Renton, WA
ITS '97 240SX