Thank you Eric for a very level headed view of this situation.

Any new rule needs a very close look and discussion. Constantly changing rules will drive people away from us.

The fast guys will always be fast. The best way to compete with them is spend countless hours practicing your driving skills. Thats what they did to get fast.

I would not support a min weight increase. 2600 has proven to be achieveable for 10 years. No need to change it.

The intent of this low weight was to make the car as fast as possible for as little money as possible. Many 944 spec racers have never been street legal since they were raced. A few have been, but the intent was never to race street legal cars. The intent was to race the lightest car possible without resorting to spending money to make the car lighter. IE replacing bodywork etc with lighter ones.

One thing I have been looking at recently is the cost of control arms for those of us with late-offset cars.

Due to the issues of repairing/rebuilding the ball-joints on these arms, it is often safer to replace them. However at over $500 each side this can be very expensive (and a lot more than the early offset). I have found there are several cheaper after-market options from the likes of paragon and blaszakprecision, some of which use steel and most have easily changeable ball joints.

www.paragon-products.com/Control-Arm-Set...71.407.153d-race.htm

I understand that some people are worried about after-market arms allowing more extreme ride-heights but this can surely be control with a minimum allowable.

The major advantage of these arms is most are stronger and with the extra stress on the joint next year with the addition of the RR tires. This can't be a bad thing, surely?

Those arms will fit all but the 87-88 944 according to their info.
I have never rebuilt late offset arms but if you rebuild them the same way as the early offset aluminum arms then it is pretty easy.

Sorry that was a bad example, I missed the 'S', but I have found info saying www.blaszakprecision.com/ do steel arms for late offset at around $600/pair.

About 4 years ago I had SSI Motorsports rebuild the ball joints in my late control arms and I've had zero issues with them. They manufactured their own bronze bushings (instead of nylon) and replaced the pins. I recall the cost to do both was quite reasonable (less than one new one for sure.)

I called them last month to see if they could rebuild a set for a different car. They recently had lost their supplier for the bushings, so they are working with another machinist and are planning on going back into production around the end of this month.

www.ssimotorsports.com. The guy to talk to is Sloan.

Hope that helps...