Lexan windows.... Legal?

[SATURNRACER]

I know read the book but I saw an ITA car on a trailer with Lexan windows.......just wanting to know. All the windows were Lexan.
O.B.

[JoshS]

I know read the book but I saw an ITA car on a trailer with Lexan windows.......just wanting to know. All the windows were Lexan.
O.B.

Not legal.

[ekim952522000]

No they are not.

It's possible it was a ITE car which is kind of a "run what ya brung" class in most regions.

[SATURNRACER]

okay thanks it said ITA which is weird....wait I had a couple of beers oh heck who knows...
thanks
O.B.

[Gregg]

Perhaps they were the door windows (esp. driver's side) and removable? It's not too uncommon for transporting and keeping the interior from the elements.

[lateapex911]

The most aggressive but Ok use of lexan in an IT car would be an MR2 or similar car on a trailer. The door windows could be temporary just for keeping the elements out during towing, and the back window is allowed to be lexan if the cage bars pass through it and connect over the engine. (I think!)

If it's a hatchback etc, then the glass must remain stock, except for doors, of course, if they have the "Nascar" style door bars.

[joeg]

I use Lexan windows in the doors for transport.

It would be kind of aggressive to use lexan in the windshield or back glass.

[Speed Raycer]

There's an ITA prepped MR2 that I see at a lot of HPDE's at Gateway that has lexan all around. Never have seen it at an IT race though....

[tnord]

There's an ITA prepped MR2 that I see at a lot of HPDE's at Gateway that has lexan all around. Never have seen it at an IT race though....

:mental note:

if you know him, tell him he better not show up to any races i'm at with that crap in there.

[quadzjr]

I have no idea whom that person is, but he will also not be running in your class (ITA and certainly not SM). If someone were to show up with lexan all the way around like a production car build and register it as an ITB car I am sure he would get protested before the day is over.

[tnord]

I'm building a dedicated ITA car....so he is in my class.

[Ron Earp]

Raced with an ITR Porsche 911 in FL with full up Lexan and holes cut in it for air to escape. Definitely not legal though.

[shwah]

I'm building a dedicated ITA car....so he is in my class.

Was. He is in my class now.

[quadzjr]

Was. He is in my class now.

Which I will be in as well with my lexan rear window. Well behind you!

[JoshS]

Raced with an ITR Porsche 911 in FL with full up Lexan and holes cut in it for air to escape. Definitely not legal though.

Why does it seem like the Florida regions seem really casual with the IT rules?

[tnord]

Why does it seem like the Florida regions seem really casual with the IT rules?

history shows them to be very casual with SM rules as well.

[Knestis]

My conversations with some IT guys in FL suggest they have adopted "looser interpretations" as well...

KK

[Ron Earp]

Why does it seem like the Florida regions seem really casual with the IT rules?

I don't know if it is hearsay or if there is truth to it. Based on my limited knowledge of racing and conversing with racers it seems that things are a bit more, ahh, liberal with rule implementation down that way. But to each region its own I suppose.

[betamotorsports]

Each region's different. I've seen 2.8L Datsun 240Zs running in ITS and no one cared because the car/driver combination was very slow. It helped get the car count up.

[quadzjr]

Maybe you guys are just looking for excuses? I know that I have seen some very lax rulings all over the SE.. We (Chip, Dave, and myself) just know that if someone is in front of us, they belong there, and we need to work on developing our car and driver to catch them. I have noticed that more of the people that run farther back in the cheated up widgets here and there mor so than the front runners.. but believe it or not that is not just in the florida regions.

Ron did you call out the 911 ITR for the lexan windows? I am not a driver as of yet, however that I bleive heaveily that the we should police our selves. So if you see something that may be fishy, why can't you go up there and ask/tell them about your concerns. They may not know.. they could just of bought an "IT ready just put gas and go car." and went through driver school and the novice permit not being any of the wiser. But having a conversation at the track about the implementation of the rules especially in the grey areas in the rule book (there is no grey area about lexan), is more fustrating than it is on here.

Damn tangets. Back to the Lexan windows