I had the same issue at round 2. I had talked a couple of people into
attending the event and one of them got dinged for the same exact thing. He
had a K&N cone filter on a flexible hose, but it wasn't bolted down. The
filter was not moving more than a 1/2 inch on either side and was not in
danger of hitting anything. We ended up taping up the filter to secure it
down.
I had never heard of this rule, but seemed like less trouble to tape it up
than to argue the point. I really don't think that left a good impression
on the first-timers though.
I tend to agree with Rich; If we are going to have more stringent
requirements for tech than what the National rules state, we need to write
them down somewhere and make them available.
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Richard Urschel
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 12:15 PM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: SFR Technical Inspection Rules
>
> My SFR season came to an end today on grid about 20 minutes before the
> mandatory driver's meeting when a person claiming to be chief of tech
> failed my car for not having the K&N cone filter in the fully enclosed
> compartment forward of the radiator "clamped down." When I asked, "where
> can it go?" I was told, "We don't do things that way here."
>
> If SFR actually does have a rule that everything must be solidly clamped
> in place irrespective of safety, some one might want to consider printing
> it somewhere rather than "catching" 4 or 5 people per event.
>
> BTW, the filter is attached to a flexible 4" diameter hose and had
> previously passed 80 SFR inspections. Even if it became detached from the
> hose it could not get out of the compartment and there is nothing it can
> interfere with.
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