You're right, Bill. Complete and utter BS.
As you know, we developed the rules for TQR strictly here on Texas as a local event. We flew it for several years, went through several iterations of rules until we settled on the current set on about 1980.
Later on, like several YEARS later, we heard of the NJ flavor that allowed ANYTHING to be used. And we discussed it and decided that if the NJ guys wanted to fly the event that way, then they were free to do so, but just don't call it "Quickie Rat" since it wasn't. As I recall, that discussion was during the time that TQR became an NCLRA event. (When was that? mid-to-late 90's?)
But the engine rules we have today is a MAJOR reason the event is the best and longest-lived racing event we fly in the U.S.
If there is writing on the wall for CL Racing, the pencil is being held by those who won't compete, won't contribute, but WILL throw stones at those who do.