Thread: Tech inspections

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This video has been posted a zillion times, but still points up the importance of safety inspections, good seat belts, etc.

http://www.hotroddersauctions.com/fo...orld-vt30.html

Give it a minute to download.

Don

Posted by shawnlee:
"they will learn nothing on there own and only become acustomed to being catered to in the form of protection from there own lack of common sense and they will pass this down to there kids in the form of no common sense."

Don't look now, but that has been happening in this country for quite a while now.

Originally Posted by Mike in Motown

OBTW ive helped tech and if a stove bolt was used in the braking system and the rules clearly stated that a grade bolt was to be used I would have required that it be corrected before it ran.

I agree, Mike. If the rules had addressed that situation and required a grade bolt, we would have used one. The rules didn't. We were allowed to run with my hardware store bolt.

Maybe it was just a CYA situation with the inspector, I don't know, but as I sort of indicated, our inspectors had the authority to disqualify a car at their discretion if they thought an unsafe condition existed whether it was specifically covered in the the rule book or not. I agree with that rule.

I just didn't (and don't) see that that particular part posed any threat.

Jim

You're right to a point, Shawn. It is (or was) a free country. A comparison I use is that I don't care if a guy riding a motorcycle wears a helmet or not, he obviously knows what his head is worth. If he runs into me on his motorcycle whether or not he is wearing a helmet will have little effect on the damage done to me or my car. As for Outlaw tracks, I avoid them like the plague. I hate the thought of some clown in the other lane having dime store hardware and less then adequate bracketry holding his front end in place. When that grade junk bolt breaks and the car makes a hard turn it could be either me or the guardrail he hits depending on which way the car goes. I don't like the thought of someone else's penny pinching or lack of knowledge being the demise of my car.....

The rules and SFI standards are there for a reason. Most have been implemented by a comittee with members far more knowledgeable than I on metallurgy and ASE standards on hardware. I'll continue to take their word for what is safe and what is not....

Individual freedoms and rights are fine, unless they interfere with the rights and freedom of another......

Posted by Dave Severson:
"Individual freedoms and rights are fine, unless they interfere with the rights and freedom of another......"

I used to work with an old guy who said "your freedom ends where my nose begins".

Originally Posted by techinspector1

I used to work with an old guy who said "your freedom ends where my nose begins".

I believe I've heard that once or twice.

In most cases if you build it by NHRA Rulebook there's no problem wherever
you race. Kinda simple

We
Don't have tech down here in south MS either.

heck

Have only been to one track that did (bowling green, KY).



Mississippi, where our street cars are faster than your race car.

We
Don't have tech down here in south MS either.

heck

Have only been to one track that did (bowling green, KY).



Mississippi, where our street cars are faster than your race car.

our tech here is a breeze, but at least im smart enough to care, and use better stuff when i make mods to my car, right now i am trying to fugre out the legal way of mounting a 5 point harness, i know your not supposed to just bolt it to the pan it'll pull through dont they make plates for this? or just use any old good piece of 1/8 inch steel? grade 8 bolts are a "duh" situation.

our local track was unsanctioned, outlaw, until 2 years ago. now IHRA. they still had a tech inspector, i first bought my 8.90 dragster i rolled up to tech the 1st time running it. he stood about 30 feet away and said it was fine have a nice day. did not look at the chassis certification, or ask if i was licenced to drive the car. a friend of mine had a rikity 69 camaro, rust bucket, no harness or roll bar, only a lap belt, slapped a well built motor, trans, and rear end. tech looked at it and asked what e.t. it ran, he said its never been driven. he said ok run it. he cracked of a 10.105 1st pass. the tech guy was waiting for him back at his trailer and told him he was done until he got a cage and harness. also seen guys run 145 mph 1/4 on bikes there wearing jeans and a sweat jacket. not any more , tech is a very good thing and should be manditory to some degree everywhere.

Originally Posted by shoprat

In most cases if you build it by NHRA Rulebook there's no problem wherever
you race. Kinda simple

Very well put, Shoprat!!!! Both NHRA and IHRA rules are available, even on line if you don't want to wait for the Pony Express to bring them.... As stated before, there are reasons for all these rules... If you don't think you need rules and safety equipment that meets the standards....Well there's a lot of dead guys that used to believe the same thing. Even with the best safety equipment in the world people get hurt racing..... Why bet against the odds?

A comparison I use is that I don't care if a guy riding a motorcycle wears a helmet or not, he obviously knows what his head is worth. If he runs into me on his motorcycle whether or not he is wearing a helmet will have little effect on the damage done to me or my car.

Dave,

If he doesn't care about his head, I don't care about it either. Yet, when he ends up in the hospital with brain damage and incurs several hundred thousand dollars in medical bills that he can't pay, he starts to affect my wallet also.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

Dave,

If he doesn't care about his head, I don't care about it either. Yet, when he ends up in the hospital with brain damage and incurs several hundred thousand dollars in medical bills that he can't pay, he starts to affect my wallet also.

Bingo! Thanks Jack.

so what are the rules for securing harness's? anybody got the rulebook?