Would this car pass a technical inspection at a race track? Here are some pictures of my Lola T70 Spyder, which was built by a “professional” shop. The shop owner represents the car to be a “high quality build”. It lacks seatbelts, amongst other things. Barring the lack of seatbelts, would the car pass a technical inspection on the track?
The first pictures are pictures of the tail and the door locking pin affixed to the tail. When you close the door, it catches the pin affixed to the tail and the doors stay closed. The pin is not affixed to a stationary solid point on the car. If the tail is off the car, there is no way to keep the doors closed, so if you wanted to do some hot laps with the tail off the car and make adjustments, you can not do that. The tail is held in by quick pins in the rear and a single catch on either side of the car as can be seen in the first photo.
The next two pictures were taken looking down the nose panel by the radiator. As you can see, the aluminum paneling does not close off either side of the chassis as you can clearly see the suspension, car tire and plywood floor of my trailer.
The next picture was taken by putting the camera down the radiator cut out of the nose panel. You can see the radiator lines, steering rack, as well as trailer’s plywood floor, as the professional builder felt it unnecessary to aluminum panel the entire floor.
The builder had this car for over 4 years and feels I should be happy with the quality of his work.
So my questions are, would you consider this a “high quality” build and would the car pass a track technical inspection? If there are any NY DMV inspectors on the board, would the car pass a NY DMV road inspection?
The first pictures are pictures of the tail and the door locking pin affixed to the tail. When you close the door, it catches the pin affixed to the tail and the doors stay closed. The pin is not affixed to a stationary solid point on the car. If the tail is off the car, there is no way to keep the doors closed, so if you wanted to do some hot laps with the tail off the car and make adjustments, you can not do that. The tail is held in by quick pins in the rear and a single catch on either side of the car as can be seen in the first photo.
The next two pictures were taken looking down the nose panel by the radiator. As you can see, the aluminum paneling does not close off either side of the chassis as you can clearly see the suspension, car tire and plywood floor of my trailer.
The next picture was taken by putting the camera down the radiator cut out of the nose panel. You can see the radiator lines, steering rack, as well as trailer’s plywood floor, as the professional builder felt it unnecessary to aluminum panel the entire floor.
The builder had this car for over 4 years and feels I should be happy with the quality of his work.
So my questions are, would you consider this a “high quality” build and would the car pass a track technical inspection? If there are any NY DMV inspectors on the board, would the car pass a NY DMV road inspection?