To light for you racer boy, SCCA Stuck it to me good. Options

[Joe Ricard]

So I got the red neck racer wieghed today. Good news.... 1905 pounds I was so happy to have just made LAST years limit.

So all of you know they screwed my by making Street Modified 2 seat (SM-2) mid engine cars minimum wieght is now 2100 pounds.

Help me with a recipe to gain pounds but make me faster.

I have fiberglass front bumper. Stock passenger seat, 16lb Sparco drivers seat. no tar on the floor, no engine sound deadening, no back pad just some carpet. PC680 Odessy battery, soon to have Tangerine Header. My wheels tip in at 19 lbs each with 20 lb Hoosiers.

I think a cage is in order as it will put on the pounds and stiffen up the chasis. Whats a autopower cage weigh? Sounds Like I will be needing more power to and maybe better brakes. Stock ones were great in a light car.

I know somebody sell me a big six that'll do it.

[alpha434]

a cage weighs approximately 1 pound per foot length for standard regulation diameter (can't think of it off the top of my head) mild steel. Thats a very close approximately- next to a 15th of a pound off. Plus a few extra grams at each weld.

So you've got one hundred and ninety five feet of rollcage to work with.

Stiffening the sides and across the firewall first. Keep low center of gravity. Put some extra weight on the passenger side. That'll help a little. And then go to weld on stiffening kits and such.

"Positive weight theory" extra weight to make you faster- has to be exponentially better than the acceleration and cornering ability you're losing with the added weight.

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