Hi Everyone,
I'm a long way away from most of you on this board so the fear of being belted by an angry respondant never really comes into it . This message board is without parallel the most valuable thing our team has found to help us in our pursuit of LSR. It is full of the most experienced and thoughtful people involved in the game.Due to my limited experience I try to restrict my comments to analysis of logic and engineering principles , and what I can see. It would be a shame to let discussion here descend into a peeing contest or a shouting match.
It was a revelation for our team to read the "Interview with Jack Kelly" about his experiences and his E gas/Lakester as it is the class we are in .Time after time we found little details and solutions that were uncannily similar to those on our car , solutions that we had arrived at by a logical progression and by discussion with knowledgeable people about the necessary safety issues and the available space we had. Sometimes I like to think that in this game if you think you thought of something yourself you just haven't looked or read hard enough . Likewise after the build of our car I am becoming familiar with the kind of questions that people who are "getting involved " ask ....wheels and tires are the most obvious .
Carl , when I ask someone a question invariably I am expecting to learn something myself from their reply , sometimes the simplest detail contains a massive amount of thought and or experience and simply asking "how come that is like that?" can reveal an issue that I ain't never troubled my poor old head with.
Now
(1.)Dear Dr. Beer Goggles,
(2.)typical corvette rollovers do not cave in the A pillars, nor the Halo - they were engineered as rollpoint support.
(3.)I don't understand your question about the seat bracing.
(4.)I haven't seen any Bulldozers on the salt or at El Mirage for that matter. My criteria for the cage is to build it as strong as possible - but do not overengineer it so much that I can survive the bulldozer -
(5.)only to be barbecued because I couldn't find my way out of the tangle of bars built into a superstrong cage - that ended up limitting my ability to get out of the car. So the object is to survive a long multiple rollover - and to get out of the car on my own.
1./ Who doesn't like beer ? ...I am not a drunk.
2./Typical Corvettes don't do 225mph.
3./ the bracing question was about the bar going up the A pillar , not the seat mount.
4./ It's a figure of speech , we don't have the luxury of a " crumple zone " in our car.
5./Carrying as much fuel as you need and no more is a consideration there .If the cage doesn't resist a serious crash a fire won't really be of a concern to whoever is in the car.
I hope this has clarified my questions and gone some way to "cooling" things down a little.Safety in this game is my utmost concern particularly in consideration to our local event because an event as small and as remote as ours is always at risk of being ended by the liability concerns of people who are not fans or entrants.....I want to be safe , I want you to be safe so we can keep doing it for a long time.
Go get 'em