I just don't get the hood-scoop quandary either. It doesn't apply to us at the moment but if an unblown car can have a hood scoop that goes to withing 1/2 inch of the windshield why does a blown car's hood scoop have to stop at the cowl. Why can't the unblown one stop 1/2 inch from the windshield also?
If one is drawing air from the high pressure area by the windshield then why also have a forward facing scoop like Nathan showed in one post. Maybe choose one or the other if that is the case, but I have no problem with someone doing whatever in that respect and you could show that you are 'scooping' air from both locations.
When John and I designed (John built it) the one on Hooley's car I felt it was legal at the time. I don't remember the current confusing wording. Of course we made it a functional working air scoop with a designed input area, but also made it an aero device which is/was allowed in comp coupe.
I'd say make the wording apply to hood scoops regardless of if they are blown, unblown, comp coup or any other car and not let the blown ones fall under streamling when that doesn't apply to a number of blown cars anyway.
Now I can't expect much since I didn't partake in sending in a new/modified rule wording
. I guess I'm lazy since it doesn't apply to us anymore. We will cover the carb hat and tubing to it at some point, but it won't go past the cowl.
This will be interesting to follow.
On the ignition thing the 'any ignition' does open the door to the possibility of some very sophisticated ignition systems using coil on plug that could easily surpass the abilities of something like an MSD box,
Sum