Steve,
There is also a product called FOG-X. It is made/distributed by the same
people who do RAIN-X. Of course it is applied to the inside of the
windscreen. I have used it successfully on a number of occasions.
Kind Regards
Peter Vucinic
WORKS-4
TR-4
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gt6steve@aol.com>
To: <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:17 AM
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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