sumpin' i learned yesterday (rt question)

[Jim Caughlin]

Tom,

I think you are misunderstanding what a blinder is. It's function is to block off the two upper yellow bulbs effectively making a .500 second pro tree. It does not cover the opposing lane bulbs. The idea is to make red lighting less likely because you can't anticipate the tree. Assuming you get the mechanical reaction time portion of your car under control, you shouldn't be able to red light. The drawback that Lane is pointing out is that at night, you get a major glare off of the upper lights which defeats the function of the blinder. The two ideas that some people use in this case of night racing is either yellow lense 'shooting' glasses and/or installing a yellow light to backlight the blinder effectively making a constant glare. Most people just accept that blinders don't work at night and revert back to using the full tree. If you watch the results on Drag Race Central, you can pretty much figure out if it's a night race round as there are usually an inordinate amount of bad lights. If anyone has any better ideas about how to utilize a blinder at night, I'm open to ideas.

Jim Caughlin
SS 6019