[Racerdad916]

Trackbird and I were talking the other day about some rumors floating around about the "New" NASA HPDE rules. My question is: To run a NASA HPDE event in 2011, if my car has a cage that is ERW not DOM, but is within design specs, will I be able to run? Same thing with fuel cell, seats etc. Before I finish the cage, it might be good to know if there are rule changes......

[trackbird]

Alan,

When I met Racerdad some time ago (wow time flies), he had a car in the works using a cage kit from Jegs (roll bar kit) and he's got a drag racing background (a cage is a cage, right??? lol). So, he now has my white chassis that I bought off of the classifieds here and has the parts from the Jegs cage to go in the new chassis. That's how we got "here" and with an ERW cage. Now, there's no point putting DOM halo parts on it, but it's going to be an autocross car and occasional cruise in car for him and his son to play with and doing a full race DOM cage is pricy. At this point, we can build it, he can have fun with it (if they'll let him through tech, it might do the odd hpde day) and we can always cut out the cage and start over if it winds up in such a place that it becomes necessary.

I'd like to build another one like mine too. We learned a lot and would approach some things in different ways this time.