Auxiliary lighting Nelson ledges (Page 2 of 3)

Innovative ideas at work, Lemons style:

I'm thinking maybe we should all pitch in to have those citronella-oil tiki torches placed every 10' around the track. That will reduce the prevalence of the mosquitos while simultaneously solving the track lighting problem! It will also help with the enclosed-trailer burning ceremony and should provide a sufficiently eerie lighting scheme for the midnight crushing of the people's curse. Open flame plus flammable liquids and motorsport-based shenanigans, what could possibly go wrong?

What say ye?

Perhaps send someone out with a fogger a couple days before and fog everything.  Hell, even some basic spray stuff in the tire walls would likely kill a good percentage.

And look what it's done to you -- brain damage enough to enter not one but two Lemons races inside a month! Rachel Carson couldn't make a better argument against DDT than that one.

Evergreen Dan, well written - it's sounds like you are starting to get the full flavor of Nelsons.

Nelson's is to race tracks same as Lemons is to sports car racing. 

Both are rough around the edges but both are damn fun and their heart is in the right place. True Racers to the End (of their budgets)

They truly are  made for each other.

Spud

Maybe build something like this:

http://picasaweb.google.ca/jamesaandert … directlink

You probably have lots of time to kill before NL anyway...

65w lows 100w highs 65w Hella Driving lights Hopefully we have enough lighting

I am trying to decide that on our car.  Do we run the high beams or low beams?  We have 7" round 55W/65W H4s.  They will obviously be aimed correctly, but the beams themselves are shaped different for the low and high.  High are higher wattage, but might be too narrow.  Our aux lights are Hella 500s at 55W.  Those might be cheated to the right a bit since NL is mostly RH turns.

I was assuming highs were ok we aligned our setup a little low so our highs are only a touch above our cutoff and our lows sit about 3in low at 25 ft putting our highs 1 in above standard alignment at 25ft

we have about 6 gazillion candle power.

aim? what is this word aim? Out chassis is so twisted it makes aiming really difficult.

6x 55 watters... though I am probably going to use 100w in the round ones.

So far, so good.  Last night we started the car and turned on both sets of lights.  The car kept running and the lights were bright.  We haven't tried the wipers and blower plus all the lights, but as bright as they looked, we might just be okay with the measly stock 50amp alternator.

Just got this email from the technical guy for our #39 car: