11-21-2012, 07:48 AM | #101 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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| Re: Legal Body Panels Help Guide and Disscussion Quote:
Cab: Bolts on to low frame at multiple point Must be supportive Appear to look like a real truck (though this is being stretched with chassis for some time) Look somewhat like a Tube built truck Your new design: I think hits most of those, problem being it still looks like a body with cut outs, as it appears to have far too much covered pieces to resemble a tuber with panels added. What you have looks like a Body with holes in it, then panels added that have no need to be there but to sidestep a controversy. This is similar to what some body guys have done to cut weight, they still have to run bodied specs. | |
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11-21-2012, 07:49 AM | #102 | |
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11-21-2012, 07:54 AM | #103 | ||
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Still looks like it has a hood and door panels. If you chopped it up to the window line and removed the front hood section it would look like a cab. | ||
11-21-2012, 07:59 AM | #104 |
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Like this and it would be a cab, if we define a body as having a hood and doors.
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11-21-2012, 08:11 AM | #105 |
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I like John's mods the best as fitting.
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11-21-2012, 10:10 AM | #106 |
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11-21-2012, 02:42 PM | #107 | |
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I really like the definition of body as it has evolved in this thread. That definition makes this illegal: If this remains legal, then Brian could keep his hood, and just lose the doors. Last edited by DickyT; 11-21-2012 at 02:49 PM. | |
11-21-2012, 03:37 PM | #108 | |
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This is an interesting question. I would essentially cut the piece below the windows, keep the hood and roof, ditch the side panels. I am going to play around with it this weekend and we will see what "looks right". | |
11-21-2012, 03:58 PM | #109 | |
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If not, c'est la vie, it would not be the 1st chassis UGC lost to a rules change. R.I.P. Fastback and FB II for anything outside of local competition that allows bodiless in it's shafty class. | |
11-21-2012, 04:05 PM | #110 | |
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| Re: Legal Body Panels Help Guide and Disscussion Quote:
▪ 2.1.5.1 - Bodiless vehicles must have solid hood panel, solid roof panel and a minimum of 2 solid side-panels. ▪ 2.1.5.1.1 - Hood, roof and side panels must be separate pieces of solid material installed onto the bodiless vehicle frame. ▪ 2.1.5.1.2 - All body panels are to be separate pieces from the complete structural frame. It's not that hard. You have a great idea of molding the material, just make it 3 separate items. Then get a vendor star & sell them. | |
11-21-2012, 04:24 PM | #111 | |
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Would a cut out in the hood of what he has, that required a body panel of 3.5 square inches of exposed material with at least 1" at two different places suffice? | |
11-21-2012, 04:48 PM | #112 | |
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The rules have not changed since you guys have cut the first chassis. | |
11-21-2012, 04:55 PM | #113 |
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▪ 2.1.5.1.1 - Hood, roof and side panels must be separate pieces of solid material installed onto the bodiless vehicle frame. It does not specify that the cab cannot be part of the frame, and it looks like Juan's cab is integral to the frame. Rules haven't been changed yet. |
11-21-2012, 05:03 PM | #114 | ||
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You know I can be pretty dense... My interpretation of Quote:
This was not a complaint if that happened, just a clarification for the unintelligent ones on the community (me)... and to help Brian with some insight into what he is trying. Last edited by DickyT; 11-21-2012 at 05:08 PM. | ||
11-21-2012, 05:06 PM | #115 |
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| Re: Legal Body Panels Help Guide and Disscussion Very much so, no way to mount the front shocks otherwise. Understood. I figured we were talking hypotheticals, so I brought up something that crossed my feeble mind. |
11-21-2012, 05:13 PM | #116 |
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Since this has gone in the direction that the "cab" is not considered part of the frame unless structurally needed, I would consider Juan's cab to be part of the frame because of the shock mounts. Therefore he can mount panels on it and be legal. So that brings up the question of whether Brians cab would be legal if he drilled shock mounts or link mounts into it. It will really boil down to how they define a body and whether they can define instances where cab is "not frame". If "body" is cab, hood, and doors- I would assume that you could hack off just the doors or just the hood and make the "body" a cab. |
11-21-2012, 05:55 PM | #117 |
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11-21-2012, 06:19 PM | #118 |
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Mold a skid to it & it would be a Uni-Body. Maybe the first one i have ever seen. 2.1.6 - Unibody – Constructed of a single piece of solid material (fiberglass, aluminum, plastic, etc) and must be self supporting. A Unibody cannot be fastened together in any nonpermanent way such as, nuts & bolts, pins, rivets, zip ties, etc. The roof must be raised from the main chassis to resemble a cockpit and should resemble a 1:1 vehicle. Unibody vehicles run the same minimum dimensions as bodiless. Last edited by Speedracer19; 11-21-2012 at 06:23 PM. |
11-21-2012, 06:25 PM | #119 | |
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| Re: Legal Body Panels Help Guide and Disscussion Quote: If a skid were to be bolted to that, then I'd think it'd require the shocks or upper links to be mounted directly to it, as well as the 4 body panels, for it to be consider a bodiless chassis. If all the suspension/linkage pickups are secure to another "frame/chassis/structure" I'd consider this to be an iout of spec 2.2 class boded rig | |
11-22-2012, 06:34 PM | #120 |
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