Driveshaft loop question.
05-11-2005, 10:25 PM
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Driveshaft loop question. I'm planning on visiting a local 1/4 mile track. Moroso motorsports park, and i know im required to have a driveshaft loop. Since this is a 1.5 hr trip from me, i want to make sure i am able to run. Right now i have SLP SFC's with the stock cross brace. One of my friends said a "tunnel brace" is considered a loop, and that i dont need to buy a driveshaft safety loop. I just want a second opinion on whethere this is true, and how strictly enforced are these rules?
BTW, i'm blown.
BTW, i'm blown.
05-12-2005, 06:16 AM
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If it's an IHRA track you can get away with drag radials and no loop if your 11.0 or slower. NHRA, I'm not sure. Lakewood makes a nice one that has the best clearance out of all that I have seen. It replaces that tunnel brace, it's $50 from Summit or Jeg's. 
05-12-2005, 07:21 AM
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Moroso is an NHRA track and is usually tough on tech, so unless you are running radials of some type and 11.50 or slower, add the driveshaft loop.
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05-12-2005, 09:14 AM
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The tunnel brace won't do a thing if the shaft lets go. I dunno if a track might be fooled and let it slide for tech.
Honestly for 50 bucks for the Lakewood its a good piece of mind. Especially with any kind of sticky tire on a car with the stock aluminum shaft.
Honestly for 50 bucks for the Lakewood its a good piece of mind. Especially with any kind of sticky tire on a car with the stock aluminum shaft.
05-12-2005, 12:39 PM
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I'll tell you this, if you want the piece of mind get it, if not, moroso doesn't check! They'll ask you, so just say yup, got a lakewood, that's what i've done, cuz I never had one, but I have a lakewood now that i'm gonna put on just for piece of mind, just gotta shim it a bit to get it to fit, cuz when I tried to put it on, it rested right on the driveshaft and it was late at night so I said **** it i'm not in the mood to mess with it, but before the new motor is done and I go back out to the track it'll be on.
05-12-2005, 04:57 PM
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Devon,
guess I must be lucky, cuz they checked both the Nova and the Formula every time! Thank god the first thing I did was install a Metco d/s loop
guess I must be lucky, cuz they checked both the Nova and the Formula every time! Thank god the first thing I did was install a Metco d/s loop
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Originally Posted by Villain281H
Devon,
guess I must be lucky, cuz they checked both the Nova and the Formula every time! Thank god the first thing I did was install a Metco d/s loop
guess I must be lucky, cuz they checked both the Nova and the Formula every time! Thank god the first thing I did was install a Metco d/s loop
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Originally Posted by delusion
...One of my friends said a "tunnel brace" is considered a loop, and that i dont need to buy a driveshaft safety loop...
