You Have A Ten Second Car ? Hard Luck

[DICKY]

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This is how I see it, if you are lucky enough to have a ten second car & you want to run it at the drags & have it road legal in NZ( IS IT THE SAME IN AUS) you can't= ten second cars have to have I full cage= cars with cages have to have a low volume cert before they can be woffed= you can't get a low volume with a cage in the front & bolt in cages are no good for tech inspection so you can't take it in & out to get a wof !

as for a nine second car ( yes I know that's a big call ) it has become even tougher in a GTR because you have to have to have a steel bell housing, unfortunately gtr boxes including hollenger & giken sequential' s have alloy bell housing's & you can't just change the bell housing to steel because it also incorperates the gearcase, imagine the cost of a custom made job- fark

ANY GOOD IDEA'S ?

[Beer Baron]

i thought you just have to have a shield around the bell housing. so the existing alloy one stays you just create a shiled around it. perhaps even allowed to run a ballistic blanket in place of that? but yes having a fully street legal 9 second GTR will be tough.

[MrBlonde]

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This is how I see it, if you are lucky enough to have a ten second car & you want to run it at the drags & have it road legal in NZ( IS IT THE SAME IN AUS) you can't= ten second cars have to have I full cage= cars with cages have to have a low volume cert before they can be woffed= you can't get a low volume with a cage in the front & bolt in cages are no good for tech inspection so you can't take it in & out to get a wof !

as for a nine second car ( yes I know that's a big call ) it has become even tougher in a GTR because you have to have to have a steel bell housing, unfortunately gtr boxes including hollenger & giken sequential' s have alloy bell housing's & you can't just change the bell housing to steel because it also incorperates the gearcase, imagine the cost of a custom made job- fark

ANY GOOD IDEA'S ?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You can run a welded four point bar instead of a roll cage, good down to 10.000. You keep your Holinger gearbox and use an SFI spec ballistic blanket. Problems solved.

[Duncan]

A cage is legal in NSW you have rally rego

But I think you might run into other problems at the defect station lol

[chops]

but yes having a fully street legal 9 second GTR will be tough.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nope, it is impossible, pure and simple.

[funkymonkey]

you obviously haven't been to VIC then. as long as you aren't caught driving an illegally modified car on the street, you can re-register the car without ever having it sighted. Technically meaning it only has to ever be inspected once in its life before becoming a purpose built track car. Just make sure you pay your rego every year (none of this blue, pink, green, orange and purple slip crap like in NSW) and you've got a "street registered" top fuel drag car with number plates, rego sticker and the paperwork... who cares that it was once registered as a VW beetle.

[chops]

Note that he said "fully street legal" not "street registered".

I don't disagree with what you're saying at all.

[Sydneykid]

"fully street legal"

That's a tough one, I am looking out over a ~40 staff car park and I reckon 90% of the cars aren't "fully street legal".

Several of them have illegal tyre depth

Quite a few have non OEM tow bars

Lots have non standard wheels

Half a dozen have non OEM roof racks

A couple have non genuine mud flaps

All the Commondoors have at least one brake light not working

A few have non OEM mufflers

A couple of the utes have non OEM roll bars

Two have non OEM spoilers

All of the 4wd's have non OEM bull bars

etc etc

In fact, if I looked really hard I reckon I could find something not "fully street legal" about almost every car in the car park. That's the real problem, one man's "legal" is another man's "highly modified".

cheers

[chops]

That's a tough one, I am looking out over a ~40 staff car park and I reckon 90% of the cars aren't "fully street legal".

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Once again, agreed.

[MS-75]

You can run a welded four point bar instead of a roll cage, good down to 10.000. You keep your Holinger gearbox and use an SFI spec ballistic blanket. Problems solved.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hmm. Intersting MrBlonde. I'm currently contemplating cage construction, and I like the sound of that.

Explain when you have a moment?

Cheers

Sean

[MrBlonde]

Hmm.  Intersting MrBlonde. I'm currently contemplating cage construction, and I like the sound of that.

Explain when you have a moment?

Cheers

Sean

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sean, it's right there in the rule book. You can run a four point rollbar instead of a six point cage, in a sedan down to 10.000.

RTA and highway patrol are much more accepting of a rollbar than a rollcage.

[MS-75]

Sean, it's right there in the rule book. You can run a four point rollbar instead of a six point cage, in a sedan down to 10.000.

RTA and highway patrol are much more accepting of a rollbar than a rollcage.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Excellent. I shall consult my rulebook.

Thanks

[1JZ.747]

Excellent.  I shall consult my rulebook.

Thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

this is effectively a half cage which i have.

but you also need a intrusion bar and taxi bar.

[chops]

Sean, your car isn't street registered anyway is it?

Why not go the whole hog, there's a 9 in that thing of yours anyway with a decent launch (or so close you'll chase it anyway), why do it by half and then have to do it again.

[LTSJayce]

That's a tough one, I am looking out over a ~40 staff car park and I reckon 90% of the cars aren't "fully street legal".

Several of them have illegal tyre depth

Quite a few have non OEM tow bars

Lots have non standard wheels

Half a dozen have non OEM roof racks

A couple have non genuine mud flaps

All the Commondoors have at least one brake light not working

A few have non OEM mufflers

A couple of the utes have non OEM roll bars

Two have non OEM spoilers

All of the 4wd's have non OEM bull bars

etc etc

In fact, if I looked really hard I reckon I could find something not "fully street legal" about almost every car in the car park.  That's the real problem, one man's "legal" is another man's "highly modified".

cheers

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And the Police/RTA/powers-that-be will still yank the import/sports car/insert name of favorite car brand here because it's got a boost guage or something equally criminally outrageous in sight...

Where are the Rozzers when the early model Fawd/Commondoor with all the above listed "features",full of rust and an unrestrained child peering out the back window at your 'Line roars past(hole in the 'zorst,y'see)at 130 kp/h an a 100 zone as you try and do the right thing to stick to the limit for fear of the rubber glove treatment?!?

Sorry...got a bit carried away...Rant over!

[MS-75]

Sean, your car isn't street registered anyway is it?

Why not go the whole hog, there's a 9 in that thing of yours anyway with a decent launch (or so close you'll chase it anyway), why do it by half and then have to do it again.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes she's registered - but is it legal, and do I drive it on the road much? Nooooooo.

I agree-a street legal 10 or 9 second car is practically impossible. Passing emissions laws alone would be the killer-let alone everything else...

Hmm-You're probably right chops. I was having a look at the rulebook last night and I think that a full cage would be wise. Considering the car was far from running at it's potential on the 10.45, and I can't even drive it properly yet, the probability that it'll go under 10.00 is pretty high.

I think that I'll also be going for a parachute mount at the same time so (only 3mph off now) it's all there when I need it-and for when I go to a bigger turbo (seriously )

Sean