new 2011 rule changes

[KEVIN]

Has anyone heard about the new rule changes for replacing all stock glass in vehicles with lexan? My main question is it going to include the replacement of the stock laminated safety glass windshields? This new rule will also be inclusive of all production vehicles.

[Milwaukee Midget]

It was my understanding that the Lexan rule might be rewritten for clarity - the wording was a bit confusing.

 
Are you saying that Lexan will be required, and that the film option is going away? 

[bvillercr]

I don't see how they can get away with this?  Are they trying to reduce the amount of participants by making them spend so much money that they cannot afford to race anymore?  Someone tell me this rule is bogus.

[dw230]

John,

Ask your club. The rule change proposals come from the participants. We don't make this stuff up as you seem to think.

DW

[maguromic]

Dan,  Your taking all the fun out and throwing all the conspiracy theories out the window.  Tony

[dw230]

Some people think these changes rain down from the black heliocopters like so many pieces of paper.

I am not protecting any of my coupe records, don't have the one anymore.

DW

[bvillercr]

I haven't seen the written rule, first time I have heard about it.  Is the proposal including all windows?  If so how do you get a replacement for a rear decklid window?

Troy Langlo, not John.  No black heli coming from me, just an observation of reality.

p.s. Where can I go to read this change?

[LSR Mike]

What about us BNI only members? where's our voice?

[mkilger]

guys can spend big money on engines so they can put lexan windows there cars too, if you have never picked up  glass on the salt you dont understand the new rule. picking up Glass takes so long, first its hard to see  and it holds the meet up too Iam all for the new rule. LSR Mike our voice is  (come help pick up glass on the long course)

[bvillercr]

guys can spend big money on engines so they can put lexan windows there cars too, if you have never picked up  glass on the salt you dont understand the new rule.

picking up glass does suck, that's why the tint rule came in effect.  How do you replace a rear decklid window with lexan?

[Peter Jack]

Troy, your back window should be available from some of the oval track suppliers such as Five Star Bodies. I don't really know who's in business these days as I haven't been working with those cars for some time.

Pete

[hitz]

Dan,
 Please don't take any of these posts as personal. You've allowed yourself to be a sounding board for the SCTA by posting on this forum and it's appreciated by many. As a outsider I really appreciate what the volunteers do to allow us to participate in LSR. but in any large organisation there are some that will try to manipulate the rules for there own needs. Not that this subject is a result of that.

 Truth of the matter is that the changes being made are not for the the cash deprived and that has been stated on this forum by a few that we should get out if we can't afford it. That's where some of us are now. No bitch just fact.

 I'm still working on the car to make it competitive but chances are it won't run again.

 Again, Appreciate all your work for the SCTA.

Harvey


 

 

[bvillercr]

If there are companies out there that make molded windows for all vehicles affected, then the rule won't be as bad.  But if people can't get molded lexan window for their cars then this is a big problem.  How many cars broke windows on the salt this year? 

[thundersalt]

Perhaps a little more research on available film before a blanket rule of lexan only. We know from experience that tint film will not hold tempered glass after it shatters but 3M and others make the clear bra film (used on front of motorhomes) which I believe will. I use it on my headlights. Just an idea from a BNI only member

[RichFox]

I guess some windows would be hard to replicate. On my Vega I just took the old windshield to a plastic place and they cut a piece of Lexan pretty much from that. And threw my old, cracked windshield in the dumpster. Then I went home and filed and sanded it to fit. Then started putting in screws from the center out and it curved right around as I bolted it down. The hatch back on the Vega will be easy if I have to replace it and the side windows are flat.