The truth is regardless what SMAC and/or SM Working Group does everyone will not be happy...
- NA6 will want more or dislike the fact they were given some then got restricted by a plate
- NA8 will still be pissed at no help, which IMO fails to need any
- you get the drift...
This is hard stuff to do. To get the 1.6 to be competitive at the top level within SM is gonna be hard. Just because we go through all this work does it mean a considerable amount of folks are going to change, pull cars out of barns or build? Probably not. Some will but not enough to significantly change the class.
Might the racing get better?? Hopefully.
Drivability is a huge factor here and it's damn near impossible to quantify down to a HP & a TQ number because it's different from driver to driver.
For instance, I wrecked my 1.6 and find a killer deal on a 99 donor so I built one. Not knowing, but the way the car likes to be driven suits my driving style I was instantly faster by 2+ seconds. How can that sort of increase in RESULTS across the population of drivers and qualities of car builds and prep be quantified into a weight addition or subtraction and a smaller or larger restrictor plate?
Hard stuff to do to get it perfect folks... What we have now is damn good.