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Since I don’t race TaGs I am just an outsider looking in. TaGs have been around for awhile now and everyone knows the advantages and pitfalls of each engine type. You can pick and choose the engine based on the criteria that best suits your individual needs. If someone chooses an inferior engine, why would you penalize the others?
However, that said… there are other ways to level the playing field and stay within the rules of a santioning body.
1)Obviously, keep a minimum weight to balance larger drivers with smaller drivers. Keep the SKUSA weights since that is the program followed.
2)Since the CSC series is only on a few tracks, you could give a required “gear package” with specific gear ratios for each engine type at each track. For example at a track like Bandimere you could require that engines with more bottom end power use a higher gear. The opposite would apply on a track like IMI or GJ.
3) Since this is a box stock class, everyone already knows what the torque and horsepower ratings of each engine type. It would be a matter of calculations to determine what peak horsepower rpm is and where that would be achieved at each facility. You could bring all the engines into a common horsepower range by requiring certain different gear ratios on each engine type.
Or… you could hold it on longer and brake later.