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Thanks Sportsman Racer Advisory Council for getting N.H.R.A. to change the Sportsmans oil down penalty.
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What the H E double tooth picks, no body asked me what I thought. Once again acting in the best interest of themselves.
On the serious side, Great job advisory council. Maybe we can make some changes for the positive in sportsman racing. Everyone needs to be patient and let the reps do their jobs.
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A great accomplishment
Next should be extending the expiration dates on Belts to more than the current 2 years. I'm sure everyone has a quite a collection of expired belts.
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You bet Ang. I just replaced my belts, and you can't tell the old from the new. Two years is rediculous! $135.00 for nothing. If you want people to keep racing you need to get real. Let's try seven years. Simpson won't go out of business. They started out redating/inspecting belts, now you need to buy all new belts. They are getting greedy.
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When you consider just how long race cars are actually in the sun(maybe 5%of the time), seven years sounds like quite a reasonable amount of time.Two years is definitely skewed too far to the short end of the stick.
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I think the oil down revision is a great step forward and in the right direction. My hats off the the council !
I agree with that belt deal 100%. I am looking at a new set at the end of this season. Thats just $150 that can go to a better place ! 5 yrs would be good to me. The Military(Helicopter) cycles em out at 5 yrs still, I think.....
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This is one of the many subjects I have addressed with SFI and it has been an exercise in futility. In a nutshell, NHRA adopted a rule for everyone, that should be enforced mostly in open-bodied cars. The seat belt deterioration is a problem in open bodied cars such as dragsters. altereds and similar cars. However, NHRA decided to extend the SFI requirement as a blanket certification to the whole community.
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I stopped using Simpson belts when they stopped rewebbing them many years ago.
I bought Stroud and have had them rewebbed each year during the off season. I only live about 280 miles from Stroud in OKC. If I call them and let them know they are coming and send them out UPS on Monday they are usually back on Thursday or Friday shipped regular ground. The off season (Nov, Dec, Jan) may be the key to the quick service but it works for me and it is only $50 plus shipping. The only way to go if you use a cam lock. My 2 Cents |
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Thanks for correcting this rule.
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