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

[Ron Porter]

As Fred mentioned, the Snell 1995 could very well be legal past '05, so I
wouldn't worry too much about buying an SA2000 this year.

Besides, if someone needs one for a track event in '05, they really don't
have much choice, anyway.

FWIW, IIRC the SA2000 helmets becoming available in late '99 - early '00, as
I remember seeing that not long after I bought the SA1995 the previous
summer. Whatever the timeframe, it definitely was not last in '00 when they
hit the market. Of course, with this latest deal about open-face helmets in
airbag cars, I'll bet there's a big rush to get more open-face certified!!

Anyway, for many folks who may not be familiar with the Snell certification,
here is the FAQ from their site:

http://www.smf.org/faqs.html

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ron Nottingham
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:57 AM
To: TechSHO@topica.com; Shotimes
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


The Snell 2005 rating helmets won't be sold until sometime around the last 
quarter of 2005. With this info in mind, the Snell 2000 helmets are only 
available and when the 2005's are available, the 2000's will have 4 years 
knocked off their "life expectancy" for SCCA competition. Something else to 
think about.

Ron Nottingham - Dalton, GA
89 325i
90 SHO

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"

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Subject: Re: (OT) Airbags & Helmets: from Ford and SCCA


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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
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----- 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.