Speak to the guys who race snowmobiles. They don't have a windscrren as
such but the inside of their helmets fog up when it's really humid. They
have developed something for sure.
Gilles Villeneuve of F1 fame (the father of the present F1 racer Jacques
Villeneuve) was in an F1 race in the Canadian GP in Montreal and in the
rain, no-one could see through the fog on the inside of their visors and
they had to really slow down. No-one could believe how Gilles just kept on
going as fast as he had before.
It was because he had been a snowmobile champion before getting into F1
racing, and he had incorporated this device or idea from snowmoble racing
for ventilation inside his visor.
Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A, Montreal, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Talbott" <dtalbott@archrepro.com>
To: <Gt6steve@aol.com>; <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Windshield fogging and Triumph heroes
> Steve,
>
> Of course, here in the beautiful Pacific NW we seldom experience that
> problem, but on those rare occasions I've found that a squeegee solves the
> problem. The basic service station variety with a long handle that's
stuffed
> between the seat and your leg works fine, and since you don't tend to
> develop much for lateral loads in the rain, you hardly know it's there.
> Probably best accomplished on the straights, although driving with one
hand
> and swiping with the other is preferable to driving blind even if you're
in
> the twisty bits.
>
> Dave Talbott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Gt6steve@aol.com>
> To: <FOT@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:17 PM
> Subject: Windshield fogging and Triumph heroes
>
>
> > Greetings Amici,
> > This may seem a stupid question to ya'll back east, but...
> > I ran into an interesting phenomena this weekend that my life in the
> desert
> > Southwest has not prepared me for. VARA came to race in my hometown of
> Las
> > Vegas this weekend so we rolled out monsoon storms to welcome them.
> > morning practice was about worthless in my closed car as I fogged up
the
> > windscreen almost immediately. I tried Rain-x which helped the outside
> but
> > did little for the inside. How does one normally deal with this issue?
> > I was thinking of ducting the derelict demister manifolds to the
firewall
> and
> > bringing warm engine bay air through to the screen as a sort of passive
> > demister. I know I have very high pressure under the hood. Admittedly
> it's
> > rare we race in the rain out here but it happens enough that I'd like to
> be
> > able to deal with it. Any thoughts would be welcomed.
> >
> > Separate to that, our own Mordy Dunst finished second Sunday after a
> terrific
> > battle with a fast Volvo. Both cars held the lead off and on but their
> > dueling allowed a D production Killer Sprite to close in and take
> advantage.
> > The TR and the Volvo remained locked in combat until the last lap when
> Mordy
> > made an impossible inside pass that so demoralized the Volvo that he
> didn't
> > come within two car lengths the remaining lap. Fellow FOT'er Paul Smock
> had
> > a different plan and simply ran away from his competition after they
> chewed
> > his bumper for the early laps. I believe he finished sixth in the 35
car
> > field. Both did a superb job keeping Triumph in the limelight.
> > Steve Smith in Las Vegas
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