Attn: NHRA / IHRA Tech .....here we go again ..

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by Jim Bailey

I had a chance to get the cobwebs off the Old Dodge this weekend at Pittsburg. I noticed that a fellow racer that uses a two step didn't have a button/switch on his brake pedal. Sooo...I politely ask him how his two step was activated? He told me that it was mounted up under the dash and attached to the brake linkage. "My question is; why would anybody go through the hassel to "hide" their two step activation device?"

It may not be hiding it, on the DP there is a bracket up under the dash for the brake light switch I will say its a bitch to adjust and I havent got it quite right. BUT the bracket is there and the switch in place, once I get it "right" itll be slick I think....

But working on it ? Well not pleasant.....NOTHING under the dash is on this car....



Id really like an adjustable pressure switch on the brake line, anyone know of a good, easily adjustable one (PN ?) I was thinking Granger or a hydraulic supply house ? Or ?

Because yeah its a bitch the more I think about it......for us it wasnt hiding it, rather making use of what was there......

[THE LEGEND]

Jim,
It's very simple. If you think they are cheating put up the protest money and let the tech guys decide!!!!!!!!!!!

My personal opinion is No 2-steps in stock, but we know that ain't going to happen.
CHip

[J.Dillinger]

Gene Kelly had the best 2-step --John Trovolta was a close second--

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by J.Dillinger

Gene Kelly had the best 2-step --John Trovolta was a close second--

And John Dillender was betrayed by a red light.Oops,I mean a lady in a red dress.:>)

Protesting someone these days is like throwing your money down at the crap tables.You
don't know what the interpretation of the rule will be.

[Jim Bailey]

Two Steps are Legal, as long as they are activated by the brake pedal. Not my choice for Stock, but .... it's the rule..... I only ask a question, " Why go through the hassel of mounting it up under the dash?" I must be getting lazy, I know I'm getting old, and this isn't my first Rodeo. AND, I give the tech guys a lot more credit than that. --- PROTEST--- Give me a break !!!... I do this for fun, and nothing else.... PS ....I also noticed a really nicely machined, Billet, Mounting Bracket with a button on it, mounted next to a racers Steering Wheel. I asked, what the button was used for? I was told; "It use to be my Two Step and I still use it a bracket races, but I don't have it hooked up at NHRA/IHRA races." I told him the same thing with my Nitrous Bottle......JB.

[novassdude]

So If I drive with hand controls where am I allowed to put the switch?

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by novassdude

So If I drive with hand controls where am I allowed to put the switch?

I would imagine they would concede to bend the rule,justifiably,in that situation.

[Rich Biebel]

I posted a link to a device that is being used by some Stock racers. It appears to have been removed.

I don't know what it is but assumed it was an adjustable brake pressure switch.

If NHRA says it's legal then it is...

2 steps and blinders are being used by many racers......

If NHRA says it's legal....it is.....

[X-TECH MAN]

Isnt it about time for ALL of these driver aids to be outlawed in stock AND S/S? Air shifters, 2 steps, trans brakes, blinders, pressure switches, all make it easy to cheat. Isnt it about time to put the driver back into the equasion?

[THE LEGEND]

Jim,
If you do this 'FOR FUN" then why worry about it. If you are not worried about it then why start this post.
If you are worried about it then talk to the tech guys at the next event.

I trid the 2-step on my wagon once and it was activated by the brake light switch under the dash.

Never raced with it though. Either the switch or me was very inconsistent but it never worked.
Chip