Hi Brian:
Are there new ball joint beams easily available? I assumed by now we were all working off of refurbished stock. Are they not the same sources for refurbished balljoint and linkpin beams?
How will pad cost be contained? What is preventing the same arms race we have seen with shoe compounds? Are the carbotech/porterfield or equivalent pads that much cheaper than shoes? After how many sets of pads will the beam and wheel costs be offset?
I have a feeling that walking around the paddock of an SCCA race weekend that 1970 calipers will still be the oldest technology around. No one is going to look at a ball joint beam and think George Jetson has landed.
I wish the adhoc committee was working on controlling costs, getting new blood into FV and getting the parked FVs out of the barns. If changing over to ball joint beams, discs, and 4 lug wheels increases participation and lowers costs I am all for it, but I just can't see the correlation.
Craig