I agree! Not only is my life more important that my car any day, but a trip to intensive care is just as bad on the wallet. Last summer, some dude at Etown flipped over his big block tubbed '72 Vega, and when he got out of the car, he smiled, and waved to the crowd. When he returned to the pits, i went and talked to him, and he said he just control at about 1000ft, and when he got out of it the car got sideways, but he thanked god he was still alive, and the Ed Quay 14pt cage which saved his life.Helmets, rollcages, and firesuits (oh my!).
But seriously, getusummm has a valid point. We all spend so much time working to make our cars fast and it is much more rare to concern ourselves with making it safe at the track.
I was at New England Dragway a few years ago during a Nostalgia event (my dad has a 60's dragster) and a guy was running a ProStreet first gen. Camaro. The car was done up right. Big block, supercharger, full cage, 4-link narrowed rear, tubbed inner fenders and big meaty slicks. The guy started to make his run and started to loose control about 1/3 way down. He must've had too much pride/ego to take his foot out of it and by 1/2 track he was skidding the rest of the way on his roof. When he got out of the car (unharmed I might add), he took off his helmet, spiked it on the track, and then threw his neck brace at the car (thought that was a little unsportsmanlike). All of the safety features in the car saved his ass. The only thing that was hurt was his wallet.
I'll take a hurt wallet over a visit to intensive care any day.
I think some of you guys are taking this the wrong way. Trust me, i am all for them doing a thorough tech inspection, especially on my car because ive really got nothing to hide, and especially on a car like my dads Nova since its a mid 9 second car. I just dont like people who nitpick about stupid **** like machine screws vs. carriage bolts. I appreciate that there are people there loking out for our own good, i was simply saying that if 95strokerPSU wanted to find a track where they might not care or notice about not having a cage, just to see where the car is at for the day, then Etown is probably where you'll get away with it. I hope no one too this the wrong way. Be safe
I wouldn't...they were like 5/16" machine screws, and there were 12 of them holding the bracket to the back of the seat. Trust me, my dad is a surgeon, if he didnt think it was safe, he wouldnt do it haha. Also that was in the Chevelle, not the Nova. The chevelle ran consistent 10.90's with a best of 10.68lol i would be concerned with machine screws holding a seat in a 9 sec. car
wow is all i gotta say i dont care how big they are they work on the same principle no matter the size they use a hole to thread in with slightly oversized threads i have seen these things rip out a lot and a lot easier then you would imagine... where a bolt goes thru and has a nut on the other side to preventing it from pulling out ...
i had large machine screws holding down crome style bars on the bed of my old truck and they always seemed to loosen up and then one day it stripped the front hole out and this bar swung out and way waving across the side walk ...i noticed people moving out of the way really fast and then i noticed it....all the screws were close to coming out and it was just from washing and ocasionally sliding something over them to put something in my bed.....now think of a mid 1o second car hitting a concrete barriar ...thats a lot of g's my guess would be that seat would come out
oh ok i was under the assumption that he was only using those screws to hold the seat in and he just taped them into the bar and seat lol i guess its not all that bad lol
I haven't taken my car to the track yet, and have no idea what it will run. Its a 5speed, has stock gears as of now, about 360-370 rwhp and stock weight. Would anyone want to take a guess at what I would run??
so what year chevelle does he have?? my dad's got a 69 chevelle ss with the big block
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