Great reply!
If WF happens, then when I am there maybe I can track John down and ask
him to put his finger on the actual spot, lol.. Right now the book says
even the cowl can be streamlined.. so from your understanding that would
mean the base of the wind screen forward. Not sure I woudl want to go
that far back but who knows. In fact I don't even know if I really want
to do this! I think my knees will have the final word, lol... the right
one is trying it's level best to put me in a hover 'round...
thanks again!
mayf
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On 9/12/2013 9:33 AM, 23weldon wrote:
> Mayf - I think you'll want to pose your question to Jon Meyer, the
> committee chair for GT/Modified Sports Classes. Contact info on pg 182
> of the 2013 rulebook.
>
> If I were to create the definition I'd say it's that part of the body
> between the base of the stock windshield and the rear point of the
> hood. So you form a ground plane based on the stock automobile's 4
> wheel contact with the ground. Drop a vertical plane at right angles
> to the front-rear centerline from the rearmost point of the hood. That
> defines the front of the cowl. This could alternatively be defined as
> a curved surface following the rear profile of the hood as far forward
> as a tangent with a minimum of 45 degree angle to the vehicle
> centerline. (This accounts for hoods that have curved or angled rear
> corners)
>
> The rear of the cowl would be defined by a simple (not compound)
> curved surface formed by lines vertical to the ground plane that
> intersect the bottom of the stock vehicle windshield glass in the
> normal driving position.(up). The exception would be for doors whose
> front edge is forward of some part of the windshield. In this case
> the adjacent part of the cowl would be the forward edge of the door
> profile. In this case if a there is a finite line between the outer
> edge of the windshield and the inner edge of the door when viewed
> vertically from above then this line would form a vertical plane
> constituting the rest of the rear boundary of the cowl.
>
> I think John Meyer will want to have the boundary lines sketched out
> for the more common bodies under his purview. That's a bit of a
> project and I'm sure there's some quirky examples in there. But now
> that we've seen what the modified sports classes are capable of I
> suspect there may be more interest and some bit of creativity there.
>
> ------ Ed Weldon
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:45 AM
>> Ok, so I have a clunky Sunbeam Modified Sports vehicle. Body is pretty
>> much intact as when it left the factory 47 years ago. I know from the
>> rule book that I can modify the forward end of the car's body from the
>> *cowl forward, including the cowl*, but so far, I can find no definition
>> of what and where the cowl begins? Is there an official definition
>> somewhere? > mayf
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