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Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:26 am
by YMJ
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The recess detail at the door pocket to allow the door to close around the cage is first class. Top job.[/quote]
I was looking at this and I'm impressed, but is it legal??[/quote]
FIA Appendix K?? Yes
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:11 am
by Vegard
YMJ wrote:quote]
The recess detail at the door pocket to allow the door to close around the cage is first class. Top job.
I was looking at this and I'm impressed, but is it legal??[/quote]
FIA Appendix K?? Yes
I thought that absolutely no body mods of visible panels were legal.
Do you feel that if you mount the door bar above the door pocket it gets in the way?
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:28 am
by YMJ
Vegard wrote:YMJ wrote:quote]
The recess detail at the door pocket to allow the door to close around the cage is first class. Top job.
I was looking at this and I'm impressed, but is it legal??
FIA Appendix K?? Yes
I thought that absolutely no body mods of visible panels were legal.
Do you feel that if you mount the door bar above the door pocket it gets in the way?[/quote]
Well I got my papers through last month and Hacky and Mark Hunt got theirs through last year with the same mod.
Ingress and outgress is easier definitely but the real benefit is that you get the base of the cage that little tad wider
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:34 am
by bluemin
I don't know who thought of the door pocket mod first but Terry Cree has run his car in HRCR stage events for some years now with the modified door bins. If it wasn't allowable I would imagine that he'd have been thrown out long before now.
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:03 pm
by Pete
Can't see any reason why that mod would cause concern as it's no advantage whatsover to the car and is probably heavier than the original !
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:20 am
by Vegard
Surf 1275 wrote:Can't see any reason why that mod would cause concern as it's no advantage whatsover to the car and is probably heavier than the original !
I agree, but FIA scrutineers are not thinking rationally like the rest of the world all of the time.
Re: Customer FIA Race Car 1293cc
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:06 am
by YMJ
Surf 1275 wrote:Can't see any reason why that mod would cause concern as it's no advantage whatsover to the car and is probably heavier than the original !
When my car was finished, it weighed in at 612Kg, so I had to add a horn, a heater, swop the space saver fire extinguisher for a big steel one, etc, etc.....to get it up to weight!