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I picked up a Racing Beat Race 1.125-inch OD tubular sway bar last week for my '94.
Question is it legal to add the Support Block Setup if you are running a stock class (ES)? I'm thinking the answer is "no" but I thought I'd ask the experts!
http://www.racingbeat.com/images/items/54120.1.jpg
I don't think you can legally modify the mounts, but since you already have a cheater wing, ABS and power steering why stop now? ::Banana::
Impressionable co-driver!Quote:
Originally Posted by sammm
Nope Onething and I aren't co-driving this season. ::Rimshot:Quote:
Originally Posted by wrx74
You can add the support block. You cannot add the cross brace. However, they don't really help that much.
You're better off taking the OEM brackets off and adding the AWR/Mazdaspeed front sway bar mounts, which are legal for SCCA Stock Class.
Yea I saw where they say they are allowed but they were also the guys selling the parts. So I was a bit leary. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by wrx74
How do you know this to be true?Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
Yes you are wise and all that but I have to contend with Sammmm and would like to have documented proof. ::Banana::
It's OK. I asked all the local guys and they don't mind if you cheat. :D
^ See what I mean! ;)
Any sort of aftermarket mount is now legal but the mounts may not be tied together (this rule was changed in recent years). RX-7's are notorious for failing front ARB mounts so I'm very familiar with the legal work arounds.
Is this a tubular bar with seperate machined arms? If so PM me for a perfectly legal way to add more bracing to the mounts. It's genius. You'll like it.
Nope one piece old school looking sway-bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prova7
Looks like this - http://www.racingbeat.com/images/items/54104.1.jpg
Section 13.7.A.1 of the 2011 SCCA Solo Rules:Quote:
Originally Posted by POS Racing
From the Stock Category Clarifications on page 266 of the Solo rules:Quote:
Substitution, addition, or removal of any front anti-roll bar(s) and supporting hardware (brackets, endlinks, bushings, etc.) is permitted.
This was news back in '01 or '02 iirc, because given the rules at the time if you broke the factory mount, your car would never be legal again (you had to grind out the spot welds on the chassis to remove the bracket and replace it). So the SEB clarified the rules on removing that U-shaped bracket and replacing it.Quote:
MAZDA MIATA SWAY BAR MOUNTS
For the purposes of 13.7, the upper (flat) and lower (U-shaped) mounting brackets for the front sway bar in a Miata are both considered to be sway bar brackets.
I had the AWR mounts on my '99 Sport after I destroyed the factory mounts. They worked like a charm. Still are for the car's current owner, as far as I know. Lugnutjon went through two sets of the factory mounts (the second ones with the RB reinforcements, iirc), before he opted for the AWR mounts as well.