[Land-speed] Deduex of Dumb Assed Question 5, 171... Canopies...

[23weldon]

No we haven't.  Everybody's in a bad mood this week.  Two meets cancelled, 
back to work or school, Washington is in an uproar, too much rain or not 
enough and I just passed a kidney stone and am hungover from the hooch they 
gave me in the emergency room.
Larry - First off you have to be able to get out of the car in a short time. 
This gets verified at tech inspection regardless of how the car is built.
Second you need to decide if your car is a closed or open car.  Different 
streamlining rules apply to each with respect to the windshield.
The 5.D.4 category rules (modified sports) say you can chop the windshield 
or remove it.  They don't say anything about making it taller; but they do 
say you can streamline "ahead of and including the cowl"
IMHO a legitimate structural component of a roll cage is not streamlining. 
There is a bit of gray area there though.
If yours is an "open car" then  it seems to me that you can make the 
windscreen as tall as you want up to the top of the cage as long as you can 
reasonably pass the "get out of it" test.
If your car is a closed car then the top over the driver has to be pretty 
much stock to meet the no streamlining rule.  Maybe I missed something that 
defines or limits the thing you have to open to get out other than dealing 
with obvious door safety issues common in coupes and sedans.  Bottom line is 
that whatever you do has to pass a common sense test. ("Is this safe") where 
the appeal process goes through the Chief inspector (Section 1.A).
Best to do your politicking before the event on these things.  That usually 
starts with detailed images.
Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:35 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] Deduex of Dumb Assed Question 5,171... Canopies...


>I hope everyone has settled down a bit, me included.