Lets go racing!

[NRT_Chris]

there has to be more travel but the other rules sound fine,just because i think it would be better to see street drivin jeeps soaking up whoops than paint shakers with people in them aka jeepspeed. just throwing that out there

The idea with the travel limits is to keep in line with jeepspeed. Its hard to pull much more usable wheel travel out of a stock concept jeep suspension anyway. And also remember we are trying to keep this as cheep as possible.

 

[dirtbagXJ2103]

so you guys should call it cheepspeed haha sounds like fun, also there is a new crazy dirtbike park opening in pala california and they also have a corr track or somthing like that maybe we could get them to let us use it. i emailed them but no response

 

[dirtbagXJ2103]

its palaraceway.com check it out

 

[Mike1331]

I'm down for this, not sure if i'll have a cage installed by then. I didn't see a cage requiremnt in the rules you posted. Is there some rules that should be a given that you didn't post?

 

[tbburg]

'Looked at building a go-fast toy to complement Zoomy97acr's race MJ, and gave up. If I understand the concept being tossed around, you either want to run a seperate class inside another sanctioned race(like Jeepspeed in BITD) or put together your own informal event.

1) Shocks....
2) Wheel travel
3) Motor all stock
4) Tire and wheels
5) Front and rear bumpers
6) windows,...

This stuff is only half of it. The safety gear is what hurt. I had close to a grand in CLOTHES before I could even get in Derrick's truck.

I think the problem with this idea is going to be safety. Inside a sanctioned event, everybody has to follow that bodies safety rules. Outside a sanctioned event:
Are there going to be helmet/firesuit requirements? Anybody who doesn't already have one going to buy a $300.00 helmet to do this? How about a couple hundred for a basic fire suit?
How about fuel cells? One thing ALL the sanctioning bodies agree on: Stock gas tank is OUT. Would you require a fuel cell? A $500.00 gas tank for your daily driver?
Seat belts? Again, everyone requires 5 point harnesses, less the 2 years old(yep, they date-code those puppies) Would they be required for your informal event?
How about fire extinguishers? Elect. kill switches? Window nets?

I'm not trying to rain on the parade. I like the idea. But almost nobody is going to have a home build rig that would "pass tec." at any sanctioned event(even for just basic safety) unless it was built to somebody's rule book. Anybody who doesn't race probably won't have the safety gear.

Did I go wrong somewhere, or is any of this valid criticism?

 

[ert01]

Man, I need to move down south... Anyone know of anyone hiring canadian electricians down there?

 

[NRT_Chris]

'Looked at building a go-fast toy to complement Zoomy97acr's race MJ, and gave up. If I understand the concept being tossed around, you either want to run a seperate class inside another sanctioned race(like Jeepspeed in BITD) or put together your own informal event.

This stuff is only half of it. The safety gear is what hurt. I had close to a grand in CLOTHES before I could even get in Derrick's truck.

I think the problem with this idea is going to be safety. Inside a sanctioned event, everybody has to follow that bodies safety rules. Outside a sanctioned event:
Are there going to be helmet/firesuit requirements? Anybody who doesn't already have one going to buy a $300.00 helmet to do this? How about a couple hundred for a basic fire suit?
How about fuel cells? One thing ALL the sanctioning bodies agree on: Stock gas tank is OUT. Would you require a fuel cell? A $500.00 gas tank for your daily driver?
Seat belts? Again, everyone requires 5 point harnesses, less the 2 years old(yep, they date-code those puppies) Would they be required for your informal event?
How about fire extinguishers? Elect. kill switches? Window nets?

I'm not trying to rain on the parade. I like the idea. But almost nobody is going to have a home build rig that would "pass tec." at any sanctioned event(even for just basic safety) unless it was built to somebody's rule book. Anybody who doesn't race probably won't have the safety gear.

Did I go wrong somewhere, or is any of this valid criticism?

Ya you kind of missed the point. I was trying to organize a group of people that intend on racing jeepspeed in the future but want to start in a class that they can compete in and not get totally smoked. All the safety stuff needed to me was a given..

Almost every JS out there is a home built rig..

 

[tbburg]

Ya you kind of missed the point,...
...,All the safety stuff needed to me was a given..

OK, it sounds like I missed the point there.

Almost every JS out there is a home built rig..

And every one of them was built from the ground up to meet the JS rule book.
What I meant here:

....,But almost nobody is going to have a home build rig that would "pass tec.",...

was that most home built roll cages/suspensions/etc. won't fit into a rule book unless they were built for it. (I'm not disparaging the work.)