If you are going to build it, build it to the rules and stop being a dick.
Sure I love the engineering and technology you are using on the car. But take it as a lesson for the real world once you graduate; regardless of what sort of engineering you are studying (coming from me as a lowly Civil Engineer) the first fucking thing you need to learn is what the spec is and build it to that spec. If you don't you have failed your client and he has every right to withhold payment, meaning no dinner on the table.
In this case the MNZ rule book is the spec.
Whatever you guys have permission to run at Mt Wellington as part of the Uni project is irrelevant to this conversation.
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