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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
If you can't check it off on the order form, it isn't OE for your specific trim even if it is OE on another.
You can probably pass some of the "picker of nits" designation on through to Chevy if it matters any.
Perhaps the definition of "stock" that the SCCA has used for years applies here. It's intended to create a level playing field for competition where people are inclined to want to use "interpretations" in any possible sense favorable to them, so it ought to be good enough to clear up the discussion here.
SCCA's stock category allows wheels to be changed, but their width(s) must remain the same as stock for the model in question. Z/28 wheels on a ZL1 would not meet this requirement.
Just to add a pertinent and entirely true story - about six years ago I wanted to get my car built with the wheels and tires from that year's GT500 - an inch wider on the wheels. Our salesman said he couldn't do that, so I went to his boss who wouldn't budge either. As it happened, that dealership could also source Ford Racing parts, including FRPP's GT500 wheels, and I could have made it happen that way but I still wouldn't really have had a fully stock GT. It's no different at a Chevy dealership for Z/28 parts on a ZL1 now than it was for me at Ford for GT500 parts on a GT back then. . . You guys stay up way too late for me, and this site is randomly refusing to recognize blank lines for the purpose of separating different thoughts. Grrrr.
Norm |
Thanks for posting these constructive thoughts Norm. You may have indeed kiboshed my OEM/stock argument if SCCAs' definition of a "model" (vs "group") applies separately to each of the cars in question. But if the "model" means Camaro, then one could use any OEM wheels available for this model across its model groups. I am not fluent with SCCA rules, so this is more of a question vs a statement. Regardless of the wheels, how about applying SCCA tire rules as this is a track performance comparo. Seems to me, at the very least, ZL1 would be permitted to use the same category tires as a car it was "competing" with. Am I correct in this assumption?