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Offline Frankenhealey

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Turbine Car but with Production Body
« on: January 22, 2015, 05:47:41 AM »
NEWBIE ALERT! This may be a dumb question but.......................

For reasons of my own I'm putting one of these



into something like this



The Special Constuction Category states 'Modified production bodies are forbidden.' and there are no other turbine classes :|

Wanting to run it at Bonneville and being able to run it at Bonneville are two very different things. Am I  :dhorse:

Any advice, ideas or comments gratefully accepted.

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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2015, 09:14:34 AM »
Not sure, but you might be able to run it in the USFRA  130 or 150 club???

Bill
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Offline Frankenhealey

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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2015, 09:36:38 AM »
All I want to do, after some testing in the UK (at Pendine, 7 miles of sand beach), is run it on the Salt. Don't care how or when but it's on ye olde buckette list :-D

I'll check the USFRA site. Thanks  :cheers:
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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2015, 09:38:51 AM »
 :-o :-o Subscribing  :-o :-o

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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2015, 10:39:38 AM »
Turbine class says in caps "THE BODY CONFIGURATION IS UNLIMITED" which may be the wiggle room you need.  Send an email to the SCTA tech line and ask the question.  
Remember guys it is its own S/C category not  a streamliner catagory
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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2015, 10:45:33 AM »
You can run T/O, Time Only on the salt with that. Hell yeah!.... stick it in there Mate. :cheers:
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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015, 11:32:21 AM »
Okay, here's how I'm reading it -

Under "Special Construction", it says -

"Modified production bodies are forbidden".

So use an unmodified Speedwell Sprite body.

To bolster that argument, it says under Turbine rules -

"The body configuration is unlimited".

So you can use an unmodified Speedwell Sprite body.

Two rules, clearly explaining you can run a stock body.

What WILL be tough will be getting a cage in it that will withstand scrutiny for 223.464 mph, which is where the record sits today.
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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2015, 01:16:50 PM »
You could bring it to the Shootout and run  FIA Category A, Group IX. Classes are by weight. There are some soft and open records.

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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2015, 01:41:13 PM »
If you're really going to run in one of the turbine classes, I don't see why you couldn't run a modified body, as "The body configuration is unlimited".  However, you'd certainly have to meet all the safety requirements of the "Special Construction" category, which are extensive.

The turbine classes are based on vehicle weight, not body configuration.

However, as a USFRA Tech Inspector, I don't see why you couldn't run it in the World of Speed 130MPH Club, where the rules are minimal.  See saltflats.com for details, but you'd need an approved helmet, tires suitable for 130MPH, and a few other odds 'n ends, but you don't even need a roll bar.  The downside is that if you exceed 139.999MPH, you'd be disqualified.  For this, you're timed in a 132-foot trap at the end of one mile.

But there's also the USFRA 150MPH Club.  For that, you'd also need a minimum 4-point roll bar, a driver's suit, shoes, and a few other things.  Here, you'd only be DQ'd for exceeding 159.999MPH.  For this class, you get a 2-mile run, then you're timed from 2.00 to 2.25 miles.
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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2015, 02:40:17 PM »

However, as a USFRA Tech Inspector, I don't see why you couldn't run it in the World of Speed 130MPH Club, where the rules are minimal. 

"The 130-mph format is specifically designed for currently licensed and insured, street legal cars/motorcycles."

Exceptions are possible of course.

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Re: Turbine Car but with Production Body
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2015, 02:56:03 PM »
No need to run T/O at any event or write to SCTA tech.

I already told you in another thread that the turbine classes are weight based. Shoot for 500 kg, slowest record at 223.

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