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Automotive Race Car Safety: Protecting the Driver's Waist Down Area
Oh, I thought you meant stock car as in from the factory, this is just for racing in general (Drag, NASCAR, F1, Dirt) I was also looking at prices for Carbon Fibre/ Kevlar fabric and its actually not that bad.- CleverBigIdeas
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Automotive Race Car Safety: Protecting the Driver's Waist Down Area
No, this is for racing (well, actually it can be used for stock cars but,) like our car (see profile pic) it has 750 horsepower with an automatic transmission which, might overload the tranny and blow it up, yes, we do have a plastic one with a tin aluminum one around it, but if it had a serious...- CleverBigIdeas
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Automotive Race Car Safety: Protecting the Driver's Waist Down Area
Yes, Don Garlits got the rear (ball) area of his foot sheared off by a clutch failure that a maybe a tunnel like this could have saved. This solution applies to transmission area where ad a roll bar protects for rollover, and sheetmetal/fiberglass would break at the speed at which tsome of this...- CleverBigIdeas
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Automotive Race Car Safety: Protecting the Driver's Waist Down Area
I have been thinking about racecar safety, specifically protecting the driver's waist down area. I was thinking of a transmission tunnel, firewall area, and floor board (just by pedals) Here's The Idea: What if I used a Carbon Fibre/ Kevlar weave to be flexable into the position you want then...- CleverBigIdeas
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering