Tech Question

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Stewart Way

If they have been allowed someone is not reading the rulebook. It says in Stock and Super Stock "Full stock dashboard including instruments....must be retained ". If you "retain" the originals, where do you put the digitai dash?

That's the rulebook I keep looking at! I can't believe these are legal. I remember a stocker getting bounced once for having autometer gauges in place of the factory gauges; even a tach in place of the factory speedometer.
And I can think of plenty of ways to cheat with a digital dash in the car. A data logger is NOT the same; it logs data. It doesn't display it as you go down track.
The more I think about it, the more I think there shouldn't be anything but sweeping gauges in a class car, nothing digital.

[Mike Voth]

Originally Posted by Stewart Way

If they have been allowed someone is not reading the rulebook. It says in Stock and Super Stock "Full stock dashboard including instruments....must be retained ". If you "retain" the originals, where do you put the digitai dash?

I don't have my rulebook here at work, but does it say that in the "GT" section as well?

[Dave Ficacci]

Originally Posted by Stewart Way

If they have been allowed someone is not reading the rulebook. It says in Stock and Super Stock "Full stock dashboard including instruments....must be retained ". If you "retain" the originals, where do you put the digitai dash?

Mount it to the column. Its legal.. So is the Computech DataMaxx Dash

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Dave Ficacci

Mount it to the column. Its legal.. So is the Computech DataMaxx Dash

There ya go.

[Stewart Way]

Dave
Sounds like that would work.

[Ed Wright]

The cars I have seen with them had them mounted on those long, tubular steering columns I see on the newer GT cars. Might be kinda close for room in an SS F body.

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

The more I think about it, the more I think there shouldn't be anything but sweeping gauges in a class car, nothing digital.

That's what I was told in the late '90s - no digital gauges where the driver could see them during a run - period. Reasoning was "We have no idea what data those gauges are displaying." Guess that's gone by the wayside. Guess you could argue that a lot of factory cars had digital dashes.

[Jim Bailey]

The Racepac Dash in our Funny Car has a built in Timer! Just think of the possiblities! JB.