Would this car pass a technical inspection?

[Howard Jones]

What I mean by triangulation is a third leg orginating at the apex of the main hoop and mounted to the floor/chassis at the other end, not a cross brace inside the hoop from side to side. Many full width bars have two shorter braces trailing backward to another set of mounts forming a 4 point system.

Without at least one third leg you have 2 legged stool or a mouse trap.

All for this goes out the window if the group that puts on the track day desides that something is "good enough" or in the case of a historic car is as it was in the day or any other reason that they figure is a good one to let you run whatever you have brought with you.

Some groups are pretty good and make a real effort to field a group of safe and solidly built cars. Others leave the job of inspection up to the owner and he presents a complete check list to the tech line personel. Some just check for a helmet and brake lights.

Tech inspection is good for you. It's not a thing to avoided or consider a pain in the ass. If you have the chance to have someone who knows what they are looking at check your car. Then ask all the questions you can think of. Use the experiance to improve your car.

The bottom line is that anyone who wants to drive their hot rod around a track at 100mph ++ should try and build a safe car.

 

[Johan]

I agree Howard.

 

[Howard Jones]

Here's a couple of links to The NORCAL Shelby Club On-track information including a Tech check list. This is a good club and takes safety seriously. No bone heads.

These will give you a very good overall idea what to look for and how to prepair your car for track day events. Should you want to RACE this is not what you want. You should review the information that the sactioning body you want to race with provides you when you apply for a permit.

http://www.norcal-saac.org/mn/mn2006/MiniNats2006Tech.pdf

Nor Cal Open Track Central

 

[Ron Earp]

Would this car pass a technical inspection at a race track? Barring the lack of seatbelts, would the car pass a technical inspection on the track?

Depends on what you mean by "a race track". If you're talking about SCCA or NASA wheel to wheel competition, then no it won't, but neither would a SPF GT40R (to my knowledge) or real vintage Lolas and GT40s, nor 99% of the GT40 replicas that are on this forum. The cars don't have sanctioned cages and have numerous other safety issues.

But if you mean high performance driver education ("track days"), then I don't see why not. Most track day schools have a technical inspection that is nothing more than checking maintenance; no play in wheel bearings, important suspension bits locked and pined, car devoid of obviously flammable and loose items, brake pads good, no fluid leaks, and so on and so forth. Like this:

http://bmwpugetsound.com/track_tech_sheet.pdf

A roll cage is not required for most "track day" events. Now if you should have one or not is another matter entirely. But most "track day" bodies don't get into the nitty gritty of real safety issues. Some do, but mostly they revolve around is the car mechanically safe to operate and drive. Seems that you'd be fine in that regard or have extremely minor issues to correct that would not be issues at all in some areas.