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Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice
Just like how many cars, such as the Courage C36, TWR Porsche and the Kremer K8 were Group C cars with the roof looped off and the bottoms sanded down, I think we should do the same again with early 2010s prototypes. We're going to remove the power trains and get rid of their roofs. Stock block engines too.
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It's about 100x harder to take the roof off the modern integral carbon rollover structure cars than the old steel roll cage on a tub Group C chassis.
DPi having any kind of future is pretty highly optimistic. The only manufacturer that even seems likely that they
might stay in that category is Mazda. LMP2 is basically the max for prototypes. Even that might need LMP3 to prop it up, and GT3 has finally found the event that will make all of the growing costs and other problems no longer background concerns that can be swept under the rug, so you might even need to move GT4 up a tier to fill grids.
As is there aren't a ton of cost effective engines that can replace a Gibson in an LMP2 chassis without completely obliterating the cost effectiveness of the car as a whole. They were never designed to be that flexible.