Topic: Tech Inspections - Serious Bidness
Tech is getting more rigorous these days. At CMP last weekend I witnessed several tech failures on things that previously passed or passed w/ a 'fix it before your next race' advice.
A dozen cars (all long time Lemons cars) at CMP were failed because they had Kirkey style aluminum seats and no bracing behind the headrest. If you can push on the headrest of your seat and there is any deflection/give you will likely be required to install a backing plate - similar to what is required if your seat back is 6" or more from the main hoop horizontal bar.
I've seen a few fuel vent catch cans in Lemons - though I thought the rules said vents must exit the interior. Well, they will fail you for a catch can now.
Fuel cells with plumbers tape / thin strapping securing the top of the cell to the chassis is now also an automatic fail. Jay called us (NSF) out on the Benz at CMP and the fix (angle iron halo) almost certainly prevented the rollover from becoming a flaming rollover. The entire cell cage was torqued to crap after the rollover and I'm sure the original setup would have ended very badly.
If anyone else is aware of stuff that used to pass (this year) and appears to no longer be allowed, please share.
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