Please make sure your rules changes/ clarifications are well thought out and will benefit ALL racers in terms of cost, reliability, and ease of rules enforcement. Remember, we're trying to keep the cars EQUAL. If/when someone pokes a hole in the rules or finds a loophole, we need to close it.
An interesting idea I've seen for reliabilty is to stack a small washer or two inside the early 3-piece OPRV piston to increase oil pressure to the rod bearings. Tom Dragoun, at 7's only in SoCal has been using this idea in non-944 spec cars and is getting higher pressure without blowing the oil filter seal. Almost no cost and adds reliability to a known weakness in our engines.
Tom's 944 Spec cars are using a currently legal, but radical way of increasing the caster by way of stacking plates on the stock strut tower mounts. As a result, his cars are turning in much better than others. We can't easily measure caster at the track so a max allowed caster angle would be tough to set. I think it's better to specify 1 or 2 off the shelf brands of camber/caster plates and not allow any mods to them. I think almost all guys are using Racer's Edge or Ground Control units as it is, so this rule tightening would only serve to reign in the outliers. Equal cars is the goal.
Current rule: "12.5.5 A camshaft key offset 2 degrees advanced is allowed for motors equipped with the low compression 9.5:1 pistons." Somewhere along the line this rule was changed to this wording. Problem is, a 2 degree offset cam key isn't always enough to correct the cam/valve timing to optimum at max head shaving on the low compression engines. This rule should include the 4 degree offset key, and NOT specify only advanced. I feel this new wording is self-governing because if you change timing much more, you'll lose power. The goal is to reset the cam timing to stock after shaving the head.
I'd like to see the 1989 2.7 transaxle coded ASG (open diff.) or ASH - (with LSD) allowed in 944 Spec because, according to the factory pubs, it offers a 1.5 mm thicker ring and pinion pair with no changes in gear ratios or final drive ratio from the currently legal tranny's. Nearly every tranny failure I've seen involved a broken ring and pinion. These also come standard with the short 5th gear. No advantage, just increased reliability. BTW, this larger R & P set won't fit in the earlier tranny's because the case is different.
Rule 17.1.1 "The 944 front
valance may be replaced with a fiberglass unit providing that it is an exact replica." How about a rule change to include the reproduction front spoiler in Polyurethane by KBD bodykits.com. This is what the original front spoilers were made out of. Many front spoilers are pretty torn up by this point. No advantage. Totally optional. Class cars will look more presentable for attracting that big sponsorship deal!
