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Do you guys really care - or is it just winter withdrawals.
Is it a performance advantage - NO - who gives a crap with the way the last few years have gone Ron West Coast wedge - V10 that is
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The correct RS front end is heavier , the euro bumper around the grill is not light and yes there was never a split bumper with the lower marker lights
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Its a simple fix. Take the split bumpers off and install the one piece bumper.
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2 small bumperettes weigh less than the full size bumper many of these cars should have. Likely not much of a performance advantage if any but aesthetically incorrect.
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It will come as no surprise - I am sure - I have made the exact configuration change on our 1970 Camaro and the weight saving is less than 10lbs - the attachment brackets (most of the weight) are the same - if you go to the trouble of replacing the "hard nose" - not worth the cost of old collector car parts. You have to buy lower front valances and cut holes next to headlight. No one ever complained - they worried about the radiator not being stock number of rows - LMFAO. I even bought the correct fog lights but never needed them.
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Having had a 70 1/2 Camaro RS/SS, I think the these(Stock/SS) cars should race with the correct parts on them.
Yes, this is one of my pet peeves and also, apparently I am old.....
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If we go down this road, Stock is going to end up looking like Super Stock. Oh wait, it already does. Never mind...
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IMHO Another two months of these sort of meaningless threads - then back to racing and discussing performance advantages. Sorry - I just think it is funny when we get into the winter doldrums. Ron
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At first glance,this thread appeared to be a by product of end-of-season malaise and boredom, but it does bring up some interesting points.What if you had a car with some small exterior errors,such as a '72 Chevelle with '71 parking light lenses and bezels,otherwise it's completely legit,you went 1500 miles to a national event only to have a tech official not pass it over that? That could be an aggravating circumstance at best. As long as the car is correct as far as the generic appearance and the year,make,and model claimed,the combo is legit,and the weight is correct as it passes over the scales, there should be no problem. All efforts to make it legitimately correct should be made.If it's a '69 Nova,it should look like one. On another current thread, the discussion came up as to openly discussing illegal weight reduction of body parts,illegal modification of the body itself,etc,and whether openly advertising this kind of thing is wise. Tech officials read these discussions,they basically know who is legit or not, and they probably don't appreciate confronting every incident where somebody deliberately is trying to fudge on the rules.They already allow us some pretty good breaks,after all, you could have been one of those folks with a 69 Camaro 255/285 horse car with the SS hood a few years ago. So many of those cars were around with the SS hood for so long that many were probably bought and sold like that with no intent to cheat anybody or anything. It would be wise, however not to advertise the ways people push the rules.No sense waving a red flag in front of a bull.
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