Thread: Electrathon - A Different Kind of "Hotrod"

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OK. I went to Pensacola, but I'll get to that in a moment... I promised that I would fix my main power switches so they are Electrathon America legal before I raced again. Well, I fixed them, but never got around to posting the "fix" here, so...

The legality of the switches was brought into question because Electrathon America rules clearly state that the driver must be able to shut the main power off without reaching outside the car. Even though the switches on these cars are easily accessed by the driver, they ARE outside the driver compartment. So, all I did was bend a loop in a piece of welding rod, drill a hole in the cowling for the rod to reach through, and attach it to the power switch. The pictures tell the story better than my description, but the loop rides against the inside of the cowl when the power is "ON". To turn the power "OFF", the driver merely needs to hook his thumb or finger in the loop and pull inward. Simple.

Chances are these will never be used in a real emergency, but they are enough to make the cars legal and they DO work. An added benefit is they keep the power cutoff "key" from falling out and getting lost.