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Re: Nitrous Proposal

To: Mdmotorsprt@aol.com
Subject: Re: Nitrous Proposal
From: Gail/Sid deLeon <deleon@sstar.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:05:09 -0600
I think you are absolutely correct.
Sid

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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