Post your road racing interior setups/pictures!
07-17-2012, 08:14 PM
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^ I used peel and seal from Lowes on my firewall and exhaust tunnel. Maybe 2-3LBS of material to reduce a lot of noise and block a lot of heat from entering the car. For how little it weighed I have bigger fluctuations depending on how much I eat or drink in a day lol.
07-18-2012, 06:13 AM
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I'll get in on this but it's just trackday car. And dirty in the picture. Padding flame away - I can't touch the bar at all!
07-19-2012, 11:27 AM
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As requested. I am posting this because I get to see what happens to the injured in my line of work. If this gets anybody's attention to thoroughly think through safety, great
An ankle injury can be extremely serious. Notice how little muscle you have around your ankle? That means you have little blood supply. You need blood supply for healing and avoiding infection. So if you break your ankle you likely get this:
If you hit the rollbar hard enough to really traumatized the soft tissues, or worse create a fracture that punctures the skin ( open fracture ), you get this:
See how angry and discolored the soft tissues are, at this point you are trying to save the foot, avoid an amputation. The foot stays in this frame for a week or so, if no infection and swelling goes down you proceed to fix the fracture ( pic 1)
Sorry to thread author, not wanting to thread jack. The thread has brought up safety and we should learn from each other. I hope to be a Paul Newman type and hustle cars around the track for the rest of my life.
An ankle injury can be extremely serious. Notice how little muscle you have around your ankle? That means you have little blood supply. You need blood supply for healing and avoiding infection. So if you break your ankle you likely get this:
If you hit the rollbar hard enough to really traumatized the soft tissues, or worse create a fracture that punctures the skin ( open fracture ), you get this:
See how angry and discolored the soft tissues are, at this point you are trying to save the foot, avoid an amputation. The foot stays in this frame for a week or so, if no infection and swelling goes down you proceed to fix the fracture ( pic 1)
Sorry to thread author, not wanting to thread jack. The thread has brought up safety and we should learn from each other. I hope to be a Paul Newman type and hustle cars around the track for the rest of my life.
07-24-2012, 08:41 AM
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love this thread. heres how my car currently sits. i dont do any wheel-to-wheel, just time attacks at the moment.
cockpit is a personal suede 350, bride low max seat, crow 5 point, and autopower roll bar.
cockpit is a personal suede 350, bride low max seat, crow 5 point, and autopower roll bar.
07-25-2012, 06:53 PM
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Ok guys let's move on from here, obviously this doesn't have anything to do with the thread now. You've all made your points, let's get past this and back on topic.
08-03-2012, 12:20 PM
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08-03-2012, 12:27 PM
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Fuuuuuuu I just got trolled hard! A guy posted a picture of a car smashed by a boulder. Now it's deleted and I look sofa king we Todd did lol.
08-03-2012, 03:31 PM
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08-08-2012, 09:54 AM
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How about this one? 
...my ride for the Glen this weekend:
Interesting thing on these NASCAR chassis is they house the fuel line in a thick steel tube that runs through the car as to protect it against debris and cutting if the driver needs to be extracted. Pretty safety-oriented stuff in there! The front hubs are also roped in to the chassis as to not let them free themselves if the hub mount is somehow severed to avoid dangerous situations where the wheel/hub goes flying into the stands. There's also this neat little panel between your legs to keep them from banging side-to-side in a heavy impact.
The kill switch is pretty interesting as well. While most cars in NASCAR need a resettable ignition kill if the engine takes off, this car has a "Roush Interrupter" that kills the motor if it sees heavy brake pressure and full throttle. Quite strange, but must work well!
Saw this the other day in the Russian Dakar-series rally raid... lol... Excellent use of the [most important] roll cage padding!
That roof panel has never been better protected!
...my ride for the Glen this weekend:Interesting thing on these NASCAR chassis is they house the fuel line in a thick steel tube that runs through the car as to protect it against debris and cutting if the driver needs to be extracted. Pretty safety-oriented stuff in there! The front hubs are also roped in to the chassis as to not let them free themselves if the hub mount is somehow severed to avoid dangerous situations where the wheel/hub goes flying into the stands. There's also this neat little panel between your legs to keep them from banging side-to-side in a heavy impact.
The kill switch is pretty interesting as well. While most cars in NASCAR need a resettable ignition kill if the engine takes off, this car has a "Roush Interrupter" that kills the motor if it sees heavy brake pressure and full throttle. Quite strange, but must work well!
Saw this the other day in the Russian Dakar-series rally raid... lol... Excellent use of the [most important] roll cage padding!
That roof panel has never been better protected!
08-08-2012, 10:05 AM
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OK Matt so spill the beans you will be at the glen in a petty enterprises car running nation wide or Cup?
I'll be tuned in for sure now!
Yea that padding was a bad example of well........ poor padding
I'll be tuned in for sure now!
Yea that padding was a bad example of well........ poor padding