Safety cables left a sour taste in my mouth after submitting the idea to USLC (600 racing then) back in 2005 after I took a loose rear bumper from a lapped car, through my windscreen. It went in one ear and out the other with them. Never heard back or even a thank you for thinking of safety email or call. That is why I haven't gone through the humiliation of submitting my dirt nerf bar system to them. I'm a nobody to them. they just want my money for parts etc... Mike Patrick knew of my nerf bar system since around 2006. Emailed me about 2 months ago that I should submit the system to USLC but I still have that sour taste in my mouth.
Safety ?? We would go through my chassis with a fine tooth comb after every race.. down to removing suspention bolts looking for stress etc... last month and a half of 2005 and beginning of 2006 I fell out of 37 features because of control arm mounting bolts disappearing from lolipops within a couple laps of a heat or a feature. Suspicious, we started posting someone at the trailer and or marking bolt heads with the lolipop using a sharpie marker and sure enough... come back from a pit meeting or a distraction before a feature and the bolt marks did not lign up anymore or were ready to fall out from someone loosening them. We went with longer bolts with nyloc nuts on the back side and that lasted for a few races then it started all over again. They must have realized they needed 2 wrenches to loosen the bolts. After losing the bolts with nylocs, we started welding nuts to the back side of the bolts... finished the season with no more issues. Musta pissed someone off 'cuz we could start anywhere in the field and wind up in the top 3 spots in a few laps, since 2002. Making our dealer aware of what was going on caused a lot of friction and made us the cast outs. I really am leary of giving out info we do and help Legends after all this crud went on, especially when the people doing it were ones we took under our wing in Legends to begin with and they turned on us, yet were friends to our face all the while ?? Here I set with a nerf bar system that works... what do I do ? Submit them to have them go in through one ear again and out the other at USLC ? Go out and compete again next season with racers who were doing stuff to our car that could have gotten us or someone else killed ??... I should just throw in the towel and say fawk it. Anyone want tobuy a bubble coupe ?
~ Gimpster ~
