[F500] Motor Debate

[Brannon, Greg]

This idea has merit, but will cost too much money for many competitors.


Talk to the guys in DSR about what it costs to build a competitive
engine.

Lets keep it simple guys...

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Ryan [mailto:Racefabnmachine at msn.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:39 AM
To: f500 at www.f500.org
Subject: Re: [F500] Motor Debate


Hmmmmmmm!

What a novel idea! A 500cc engine spec that you can have up to 4
cylinders and use no forced induction and gas motors only! Hmmmmmmmmmm!
I like it! Everyone will run what proves to be the best motor anyway and
that might advance the class even more! Watch out FF and FC. Question is
can our limited suspensions handle this?

Lets find out!

Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: <dphaneu at attglobal.net>
To: <f500 at www.f500.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: [F500] Motor Debate


> I don't think it's realistic to expect more than 3-4 years
> of production life cycle out of a manufacture's small, limited 
> production engine. With the rapid technology, design and market 
> changes that effect companies, their product life cycles have gotten 
> shorter. There's not an easy answer to the engine supply problem as 
> long as we require a "spec engine". If we adopt a "new" engine I'll 
> bet a fair amount of money it'll be gone or substantially changed 
> within 36 months. Some people want to go to a 4-stroke....ok..pick 
> one. Maybe a current 4-stroke snowmobile motor, well they are just
> starting the development cycles on them, I'd suspect rapid changes
> over the next 2-3 years. How about a nice 600cc street bike
> motor....wrong answer, every 4-6 months their power and rpm
> levels rise.Well maybe Briggs & Stratton, they build lots of
> small engines.
> Things are going to change, if the performance potential of
> the new engines are kept to levels of the existing ones, what's
> the problem? Run your current motors till they die and start over
> with the new stuff, it's always going to take a certain amount
> of work and money to play!
> I'd personally like to see the whole "spec engine" idea
> dropped and go to a displacement limit only. Say maybe
> 500cc of about whatever you would like to build.
> Gasoline only, no forced induction, maximum of 4 cylinders.
> This is just a quick and dirty suggestion, tossed out with
> about 5 seconds of thought process, obviously it would
> need some "tuning". I'd never expect to see it happen, just
> pointing out a different solution to the engine choices.
> I like it because I'm much better at tuning/building
> than I'll ever be at driving.
> Dave Phaneuf...welcoming any new engine we can get.
>
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