[Shotimes] RE: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA

[Ron Porter]

Rick,

For yourself, or anyone who is considering doing any track events, getting
an SA (rather than M) helmet is a good idea, as it is becoming a requirement
for many tracks & events.

One of the cheaper (if not the cheapest) one out there is the G-Force open
face. Here is one vendor that offers them (scroll down the page):

http://www.randys-racemart.com/bellhelmets.html

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Glass [mailto:rick@pitroadproducts.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:13 PM
To: Shotimes; V8List SHO; SHO Tech
Subject: Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


Thanks Ron,

I have been looking at helmets, this is very useful information.

BTW, I would consider this post far more ON TOPIC than alot of the recent
list activity.

Rick Glass
   Nashville, TN
   SESHOC
'99 Silver 61k (still adding up)
   Flowmaster 40's
   no "pre-muff"/resonator
   WELDED (Kirk's 432nd, 8-31-04)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: "Shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "V8List SHO" <v8sho@v8sho.com>;
"SHO Tech" <techsho@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


Here's the content of a couple of posts that deal with helmets and airbags.
First is from the SCCA, and I have cut-n-pasted the second, which was from a
Ford release that someone posted.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Murray [mailto:mattm@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:03 PM
To: 911/993/996

Before you buy that helmet yet, there has been a firestorm on various Solo
2/autocross/rally list. Yesterday, the SCCA released the following
information. It is not final, but would certainly be relevant to your
purchases.

http://scca.org/_Filelibrary/File/AirbagAdvisory.pdf


In addition to what you mentioned they also are looking at this
information:
NOTE THIS IS NOT SCCA INFORMATION NOR SCCA DIRECTIVE, BUT INFO
FROM FORD.

Something from Ford that SCCA might find interesting.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE CEASE USE OF FULL FACED
HELMETS IN VEHICLES WITH LIVE STEERING WHEEL AIRBAGS.

It was brought up at the recent International Committee for
Proving Ground Safety that several companies do not allow use of
full face helmets in vehicles with (driver-side) airbags,
due to the risk of severe neck injury for the airbag impacting the
bottom of the full-faced helmet. Full-faced helmets are, of
course, allowed in vehicles without airbags or in vehicles with
de-activated airbags.