Richard: This started for fun and we'll keep it that way, no offense taken.
My comments come from this point of view:
The tread that started this was, "Best Handling Cobra"
The resulting tread is, "Cobra Chassis Race Challange"
My understanding was that we were looking at the handling of our stock chassis'. For this reason, I fully understood your reasons to use similar tires, gears, engines, and a common driver to eliminate as many variables but the chassis.
My post you quoted was defending this as Jim said a car should not be allowed change anything. Our car does not comply with 3.73 rear or Hoosier radials so if I didn't defend your rules on it, we couldn't come play.
This is what my comments to market pricing referred to:
Our gears are 3.10, it's economical.
Our wheels are bolt on, it's economical.
Our tires/wheels are 15", again, economical.
Sorry, I guess I could have worded it differently.
Hell, one guy is even whining about spelling
Boudy