Originally Posted by reenmachine

OK, here's another powertrain question -- don't worry, I'm not asking for any changes to the rules! Quite the opposite, actually, as I am working towards compliance.

As you may know, VTA is in its infancy out here on the left coast. Almost nobody in socal runs it. I was part of a movement to get it going in our local club, and we're up to a dozen cars or so, SORT OF.

We're running USVTA rules with the exception of powertrain. We started with 6-cell/Johnson silver cans to get going on the cheap and gauge interest. Well, the interest is there, and in order to spread the class regionally I want to stick to the official USVTA rules.

So here's the big question:

We're running silver cans with 5.7-6.0 FDR, which equates to a great speed for our particular track. How will this compare to the pace of an official USVTA car? It would be a dream if we could run a mix of USVTA and our silver can spec while people made the transition, or, even better, if USVTA were just a little faster so there would be that incentive to convert.

I know there are other tracks out there running the silver can pseudo-USVTA -- has anyone done a comparo?