Completed pics...

#1

The car is complete for the most part. I’m going to Rockingham in a couple of weeks to run the car (not racing but instructing) and hopefully will be able to go ahead and get my log book for the car. Here are a few pics…

#2

another…

#3

final one…

#4

Man…That is a lot of RED!

#5

That car makes me want to go get a McGriddle:P J/k looks good.

#6

Most beautimous.

#7

Car looks great. I know you are ready to get it on the track after spending so much time on the build. Have fun!

#8

The car looks great… the pool noodles, however, don’t. I’d strongly suggest replacing it with some SFI-rate high-density foam roll cage padding – it’s better impact protection and it’s fire-resistant.

#9

looks cool!

on the psgr side door X bars, where is the front upper one heading to?

It looks like you have some of the yellow padding behind your head - they may call you on the need for high-density padding within 12" of your helmet (or maybe I’m mixing up sanctioning body rules …)

cheers,
bruce

#10

I’m going to assume it’s purely an unfortunate coincidence that you painted your car Iowa State Cyclone colors… :S

#11

Are you running different wheels? If not, paint the ones you have. I did mine in Rust Oleum metallic black and they look pretty slick. B)

#12

leggwork wrote:

It ties into the bar coming down the A-Pillar.

The colors don’t represent anything except what I wanted. The car was originally
Cinnabar red and so I painted it back the original factory color. I thought the yellow stripe would look nice so I taped it off, covered the car with plastic and went at it with a couple cans of Krylon Sunflower yellow.

Sharkd, your point about the roll bar padding interests me. I looked at the SFI padding and decided to save some $ at this point based on what I saw in quite a few of the other SpecE30’s up at VIR in July. However, safety is a place where I don’t want to make comprimises, so I’d like to know what others think about the SFI rated padding vs. the pool noodles?

Steven

#13

Well, there is some non-SFI rated HD foam (IIRC, it just hasn’t been tested):

OG sells both rated and non-rated

Pegasus sells only the rated stuff

My car required 5 pieces, not including the passenger side, to cover everything my head or arms could hit. I used some 3M "Super Trim" Adhesive to attach it to the bars (not trusting the self-adhesive backing.

#14

sdais wrote:

unfortunate? Hardly, my friend!

Those are the colors of winners!

Mike C.
Iowa State Univ., Class of '89

#15

uh60fixer wrote:

[quote]sdais wrote:

unfortunate? Hardly, my friend!

Those are the colors of winners!

Mike C.
Iowa State Univ., Class of '89[/quote]

IOWA 27
ISU 10

Heh heh heh…not this year! :stuck_out_tongue:

#16

We went with SFI-rated padding as well. Maybe Dan can weight in on this as well, but I believe SCCA now requires SFI padding. In the 2006.5 NASA rules (15.6.4) sfi rated padding is recommended, but not required. It has greater impact capacity and based on descriptions at apexracing and others, it does not melt or put off toxic gas fumes in case of fire like the pool noodle stuff.

I bought 3 - 3 foot sticks from pegasus for about $17 each and it did the car.
Ed

BTW - awesome looking car!

#17

You better go ahead and put a scratch in it somewhere…just to get rid of the new paint "bad mojo"

#18

Yes, the car looks great.

Regarding the padding, I was told that the difference in the high impact and pool noodle stuff is the difference in a bruised arm or leg (high impact padding) and a broken arm or leg (pool noodle).

Carter

#19

It looks like I need to revise my side stripe design. We can’t have Twinkies! Cinnabar / gold with yellow ‘Marines’ logos for me. Your car looks real sharp.