beaver springs tech

[fairlanegt427]

Seeing I live in a cold state.  I am wondering if beaver springs has a guy that can certify my chassis before the event in april?

[Falcon67]

You can look this over or contact your division director or closest chassis inspctor

http://www.ihra.com/competition/competion-main/itemlist/category/202

[cjshaker]

I was waiting to see if Doug would jump in and answer this. I'm pretty sure there is no NHRA person capable of certifying a chassis at the FE R&R. It's a pretty 'informal' meet where most tech issues are overlooked (as long as the car is basically safe to drive) because nobody is there for the points or money...just the glory and fame

[Falcon67]

That depends on the track insurance.  Beaver is IHRA and they are petty easy going but accidents involving cars that don't meet some minimum requirements for their speed can be trouble.  I would imagine the general safety rules would be the lowest bar

http://www.beaversprings.com/test-n-tune/

When in doubt, ask the track.  Better to know now than get there and be sent away or told "don't go that fast again" because you are missing some safety equipment.  Also - if you are fast enough, not having your equipment looked over and certified is asking for trouble or to get hurt. 

[cjshaker]

Chris gave the best advice, contact the track. If I remember correctly, Beaver Bob has sold the track, so new owners may have a different approach. But just guessing by the original posters question, it sounds like the chassis is up to snuff, it just needs certified. I don't see that being a problem, but again, ask the track.

[thatdarncat]

Chassis inspections, where you get your sticker, are generally done by certified chassis inspectors and not the individual tracks tech people, unless it just happens that a tech person is certified to do it. Many tracks each spring hold a chassis certification day before the season starts to make it easy for the chassis inspector to do quite a few cars at once. Otherwise you often have to pay the guy to come to your shop to do it. If you have a race car chassis shop nearby they may have a similar program so the inspector can do multiple cars at once. The best advice is to start with calling the track, or your division office, they should be able to help, as was posted above. Don’t wait until you get to the track because most likely they won’t have a certified inspector on the grounds that day, unless you make arrangements for one to meet you there. I will add, like the others said, last year ( and it sounds like in the past ) Beaver Springs was pretty loose with allowing racers to exceed their chassis spec limit, but past practices don’t guarantee what they will do this year. Here’s an example of what is offered in my NHRA Division each spring.

[Falcon67]

Can't find the bill, but I think it was $160 to cert the dragster chassis for 7.50 up.  Good for 3 years.

[fekbmax]

My initial cert (7.50 up sportsman door car) was $125.oo . Im getting a re cert next month at mir, gonna cost me $85.oo for the re certification.

[BattlestarGalactic]

Lot of local guys will have the inspector come to town and do a handful of cars at once in their garages, dividing the cost between them.

[fairlanegt427]

mines certed nhra.  I know they recognize each other. but I am just going to check with my nhra division 5 office and let them tell me where to go that's why I pay these memberships for.   I live in the upper Midwest so my cert guys im sure are sitting in the house as I am.