Sorry Colan, but as I understand it, "ALL" does not mean *all*. I offer the
427 Cobra that ran a couple of years ago (before the big accident). The
roll bar was clearly below the top of the driver's helmet. As was explained
to me when I questioned it, because the Cobra "was" legal however many years
ago, it is grandfathered in. I didn't pursue the issue further, so I don't
know if that is the whole story or not.
Then again, Chris O'Donnell's roll bar doesn't meet "all requirements" of
appendix C either.
Steve Hoelscher,
#27 DSP
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Colan Arnold
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:46 PM
To: Rocky Entriken
Cc: Sam & Greg Scharnberg; Sam Strano; Eric Salem; autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Tech at Nationals
Please read 3.3.1. Basically it says, If non OEM upper body restraints are
used,
ALL open cars must have a roll bar meeting all requirements of Appendix C.
As
usual, ALL means All, not some.
In other words, if you use the stock restraints in an open car, no problems,
but
if you have an open car and don't use stock upper body restraints, you need
an
Appendix C roll bar. The issue is a shoulder harness will hold the driver
upright when the car is upside down, the stock restraints will not.
Rocky Entriken wrote:
> I would suspect that, since rollbars are not required in Stock/SP (but are
> "allowed"), they need meet no height spec. Also, in the case of ragtop
cars,
> "street" rollbars are often below helmet height because they need to be in
> order to put up the top. The point being not to require something that
would
> make it impossible to use a Stock/SP car as a daily driver. By extension,
> true also of STS cars (and SM? dunno if they have a rollbar requirement).
>
> --Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam & Greg Scharnberg" <samandgreg@qwest.net>
> To: "Sam Strano" <strano@stranoparts.com>; "Eric Salem"
> <eric@mail.brown911.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:30 PM
> Subject: RE: Tech at Nationals
>
> > So, Stock and Street Prepared with roll bars are not a concern when it
> > comes to
> > roll bar height? Hmmm, kinda curious. Seems like they (Stock) roll
more
> > often
> > than a Prepared or Modified. So whose roll bar and driver restraint
> (Stock
> > -Sec 13.2.G&H and Street Prepared -Sec 14.2.G) should tech be checking
> (Sec
> > 3.3.2 and Sec 3.3.3.P)?
> >
> > Only talking about the Stock and Street Prepared with roll bars,
> > Sam
> >
> > >Legal helmet. No corded tires. Proper sticker placement (don't even
> argue
> > >with us on this one).
> > >
> > >Mod and Prepared guys. We will be checking roll-bar heights too.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Sam Strano Jr.
> >
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