I will contend that there are many "240# BLOBs" out there riding around in their Kirky's that are simply bolted through the "thin sheet metal" floors, all for the purpose of getting their weight lower in the car and perhaps back a little... Or at least there were before they were required to attach the seat back to the cage...Quote:
Originally posted by ddewhurst@Nov 8 2005, 03:01 PM
The weigh was spread in places other than the front passenger foot well.
The metal TEARS & the spot welds RIP apart. Friken spot welds & thin sheet metal are not ment to RIGIDLY mount a BIG 240# BLOB of metal to for the purpose the ITAC is implementing.
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I've seen MANY racers who bypass the stock seat mounting pads and simply drill through the floorboards, etc...
The point is that the installation can be as safe as YOU want to make it...
If "thin sheet metal" is your concern... reinforce it... it's within the rules... expressly allowed, I might add, to do so...
As for the location, I've said it here several times now... we have proposed that the location be opened up to include the seating area, and I am working to get that in the 2006 ITCS... That area is more than enough to hold all the ballast we may need to add, if the person building the car uses their head and installs it with safety in mind...
Production does it, GT does it, World Challenge does it... NASCAR does it... Go-Karts do it... Every form of racing deals with ballast.
Use your head and follow the rules and their shouldn't be a problem...