List,
Any reaction or suggestions to something better than what is being propsed
for the Nitrous users that show up at autocrosses? Seems a proposal may be
afoot (last issue of Safety Belt) that would basically deny any particiaption
immedialty of any driver that showed up at our events with a nitrous bopttle
in the car.
I am not in favor of nirtous, works fine on the drag strip, I suppose. But
there is a concerted effort to attract the drag racers, and to immediatly
send them home seems counter productive.
The proposals talked about included disconnecting the bottles/shutting them
off (then the supposed fear is the driver's would re-connect after tech),
remove from the car (then the fear is storage), but since a better compromise
could not be acheived, out right banning, even for the first timer, is being
seriously considered. Basically, the proposal stated: send em home and come
back with out.
I don't agree. But I need to understand safety issues about nitrous better.
If it is the pressurized vessel problem, I maintain that disconnecting from
the system should easy, and leaving the bottle securly strapped (provided it
is securely attached) in the car is safer than removing entirely. This would
happen at the first event only, and the driver(s) would be advised to not
bring the car back again with any nitrous at all.
We teched maybe two cars last year with NOS in them, and we did just the
above. Advised the drivers to disconnect (they did) and they could run that
day, but they could not come back a second time with the bottles in the car.
Thoughts???
Mike Dickerson
Central Kentucky
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