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Steve E., help!
For those of you out there w/ SpeedSource cars, have you had to replace your window net yet? I don't see how to do it - the lower bar has 2 90 degree angles and I don't think the net will slide over them; the upper bar has the latch welded right in the center. I have to have a new one on this weekend!
Bill,
IMO, the easiest thing is to just get a new net, and mount kit with the push button style release(assuming yours is like mine), and build a whole new set up. It isn't that bad as long as you have access to a welder. I don't think even Steve E. can get the window net to slide over the latch(but, he can do some neat stuff).
Good luck.
Those nets were purchased as a unit with the upper bar and latch already installed. A real PITA to replace. All the later cars used a heim joint in the rear and the seat belt style clip in the front. You can cut the latch off and replace the net. Leave 1/2 inch on either side to tig the latch back on. Lower should be a wrap around with clamps. I might have one on the shelf like you have but won't be back in town til Monday night. Is that soon enough?
Steve
NEVER MIND!
I started thinking why on Earth would a window net expire, so I looked t up. They don't! All required is an SFI 27.1 label - does not even have to have a date at all. :happy204:
Thanks for you help anyway.
They expire every 2 years with NASA, fwiw.
ARE YOU SERIOUS???Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Taylor
Yet another check mark on the list of reasons not to race with NASA...all of them "safety"-related...sigh...
Yes.
Not to derail this thread into a What's Wrong With NASA, but to me there's just as many personnel and other issues around here (Texas) as there are safety issues.
Really?!?!? Has National blessed that? pretty sure every car we reaced with this past weekend has a window net older than that...:026:
Marcus
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Amy
You've got to be freaking kidding me.
Seems like the only + of racing with NASA is the GRM mag that comes with the membership. Methinks I won't be renewing my membership.
The grass isn't always greener.... they just make you resod it every 6 months
Pretty sure it IS a National deal... the last NASA event I ran in April 07 in a customer car had a *gasp* 3 year old net, and the attitude I got was they were moving mountains to allow me to race with it. I promised not to roll the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Miller
hahahahahahha. seriously, i've never had anyone look at my window net.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Taylor