Isn't it going to be difficult to accomplish any of this without the sound restriction also being eased?

I have no idea how much noise a 50cc (and its much larger prop) makes, but even with the best muffling on Earth I would imagine it is still more than 94dB. I remember that at the Nats some of the electrics were on the ragged edge of the rule.[]

Maybe MTK got some numbers from testing his piped DLE 55.....


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As I said a few times now, the piped and soft mounted 55 turning the 20x12 Mezjlik 3 Blader is whisper quiet. Probably less that 94 at 10 feet. My best experiment to date

Same exact set-up excepting the prop, is much louder. A 22x12 2 blader is noisier by wide margin.

I think that the bigger blocks will generally be noisier. That's simply an opportunity for innovation/invention in my opinion. Maybe ease the noise restriction for 5 years to allow people a chance to create solutions, then bring it back down

But I'd love the idea of lifting the weight limit. All sorts of opportunities would exist then, and Bryan's suggestion is but one. Repercussions would be or could be substantial, both from a cost point of view and from Judging/scoring

No matter what, Pattern people have always had a love affair with BLING. Much as we have strived to avoid it, Judging has tended to reward that. It also has tended to reward the latest thing in vogue, (much to my chagrin). Companies that make the highest priced stuff would be given cart blanche to charge whatever the market would bear. Yeah, you'd have a nice looker but at what cost? Was it BEM who said score a small penalty for such BLING? I am for that....

OR simply give the guys that create their own solutions a 5-10% reward on score....