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I just don't see how a center steer altered is any different than a left hand steer roadster. Doesn't make much sense to me. I don't see an advantage.
Dont go there Ryan, now you'll have altereds wanting to run sg............ lol. Finney would then get to chase.......... lol Rick
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I thought we already had a Top roadster class, its called SG, Iroc Gas, lol just a few door cars filling in.
Myself I wish the rules would be changed that SG had to be roofed and working doors ect. Yes i only had open bodied cars when i raced but this has got crazy on the open roofless funny cars in SG. |
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Tom, as for the gussets, I'm not really sure why they became mandatory other than the stories of the cages failing/ collapsing and maybe thats due do the cage not being on center.
Maybe some engineers could chime in here.... Rick
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Dragsters and center steer roadsters main hoop general align with a down tube in the chassis. Most Roadsters are just setting on top and are not tied into both sides. The older side steer roadsters with real tall cages were coming off on roll overs and killing drivers, the gussets make fair sense to me. I'm not a tech guy but this is my understanding. 2cents
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As Jeff said the usual left steer roadster had a frame that was a system of hoops with the cage sitting on top. Since they were off center it appears that in crashes they were getting twisted off, along with the driver's head and upper body. Even the well built left steer roadsters, Cage hoop running all the way to the lower frame rails, is required to put in the little gussets. There is daylight and dark difference in the center steer alterteds and left steer roadsters. The new Vette bodies are way more aero and the old 27's are like a wing flying upside down. Bad areo. They have no place in TS if you ask me. That is just an accident waiting to kill someone. Yes, I feel I can speak as an authority on left steer roadster. I'm a left steer roadster owner and a survivor of another one that crash @ 154 mph. (Vinny's Comp World champ car)
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Amen...Adger...
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Within a few years, the street roadsters in comp will be knocking on the 7.40's so a cert will have to be developed sooner or later. They are going 7.60's now and will probably go 7.50's in mineshaft air.
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I had mentioned in an earlier post that I don't think that the roadsters will certify any faster than a 7.50. I think that is why they won't let them in. They wont let a door car in unless is has a 6.0 tag on it, even if it will only run 7.90's. NHRA is not going to start trying to police which car has what cert and making sure its not running faster than it is certified for, so the easiest way to do that is not let a 7.50 cert in the class. At least thats my 2 cents worth. lol
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