paulkish
old fart
I said nothing at all about making all engines a turd, my idea is about possibly making the top performance of engines equal.The real crux of this solution to equalizing engines, is either you end up limiting every engine, making the solution unpopular, because you made every engine a turd.
No one wants to go slower.
If you do not limit every engine, the possibility of making that the engine of choice because it will be similar to what the owner is used to.
Once the limiter is experienced, work will begin on optimizing an engine setup to exploit the characteristics allowed by limiting revs. Either within the spirit of the class, or with a component making the limiter think it is working.
Just how racers think.
I addressed the rate of acceleration could be at different rates for different classes.
No reason a decent popular rate of acceleration giving racers a little or a lot of go fast feeling could not be found.
The problem is having to pay thru the nose to have an engine built to the hilt or cheated.
For instance as of right now I'm thinking you could set the rate of acceleration for a box stock predator to be at the limit of what you'd expect to have with a "real" box stock predator.
If racers paid for more or cheated to get more then the limit of acceleration set and limited, ... so what?
Everyone could do their own little bit more to them for cheap but end performance would still be limited.