Steve,
Of course, here in the beautiful Pacific NW we seldom experience that
problem, but on those rare occasions I've found that a squeegee solves the
problem. The basic service station variety with a long handle that's stuffed
between the seat and your leg works fine, and since you don't tend to
develop much for lateral loads in the rain, you hardly know it's there.
Probably best accomplished on the straights, although driving with one hand
and swiping with the other is preferable to driving blind even if you're in
the twisty bits.
Dave Talbott
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gt6steve@aol.com>
To: <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:17 PM
Subject: Windshield fogging and Triumph heroes
> Greetings Amici,
> This may seem a stupid question to ya'll back east, but...
> I ran into an interesting phenomena this weekend that my life in the
desert
> Southwest has not prepared me for. VARA came to race in my hometown of
Las
> Vegas this weekend so we rolled out monsoon storms to welcome them.
> morning practice was about worthless in my closed car as I fogged up the
> windscreen almost immediately. I tried Rain-x which helped the outside
but
> did little for the inside. How does one normally deal with this issue?
> I was thinking of ducting the derelict demister manifolds to the firewall
and
> bringing warm engine bay air through to the screen as a sort of passive
> demister. I know I have very high pressure under the hood. Admittedly
it's
> rare we race in the rain out here but it happens enough that I'd like to
be
> able to deal with it. Any thoughts would be welcomed.
>
> Separate to that, our own Mordy Dunst finished second Sunday after a
terrific
> battle with a fast Volvo. Both cars held the lead off and on but their
> dueling allowed a D production Killer Sprite to close in and take
advantage.
> The TR and the Volvo remained locked in combat until the last lap when
Mordy
> made an impossible inside pass that so demoralized the Volvo that he
didn't
> come within two car lengths the remaining lap. Fellow FOT'er Paul Smock
had
> a different plan and simply ran away from his competition after they
chewed
> his bumper for the early laps. I believe he finished sixth in the 35 car
> field. Both did a superb job keeping Triumph in the limelight.
> Steve Smith in Las Vegas
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