You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’"
We're all in awe of the audacity of Jon's vision, but Jon does make it tough for those writing the Vintage class rules.
"You don't race cars, you race the rule book." Smokey Yunick
If the EMC were to be continued in 2018, wonder how they'd have worded the prohibition against Jon's "valve seats" and "head gasket" interpretation? Also wonder how a lesser-known contestant would have fared with the judges had he brought in the same out-of-the-box-brilliant-but-way-high-dollar rule bending entry?Vintage class rules for this year require factory iron head castings and prohibit welding or filling ports with epoxy. That rule is thanks to Jon Kaase’s Y-block entry from 2015 that had totally reshaped ports that essentially turned the top end of the engine into a high-flowing small-block Chevy.