I think the problem with even allowing nitrous tanks on site is that you never
know what some fool will do with it.
Personally, one time at a dragstrip, I was asked if I had a propane torch. I
said no and thought no more of it.
Then, 30 minutes later, the PA system fired up and the announcer sternly
announced, "NO HEATING NITROUS TANKS WITH PROPANE TORCHES!!! ANYONE
CAUGHT DOING THIS WILL BE THROWN OUT IMMEDIATLY!!!".
There are some really dangerous things that some people do with these tanks. If
I were the insurance company covering an event, I'd ban them too.
Greg Holden
#58 SM, MoHud Region
2/23/02 2:25:51 PM, Mdmotorsprt@aol.com wrote:
>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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