[Mark in Baltimore]

Too much talk about tech and safety. The vast majority want that twelfth photo that was never delivered (and, please, make it something that we can't see on FB anyway ) and, thus, based on good hands' initial post, precludes Clarke from PCAP nirvana.

[Fairfax 944]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

One thing I think our tech group should do is to check wheel torque. Some of the n00bs get confused between ft-lbs and Nm.

One of you guys, in your younger days, stored his torque wrench in my trailer overnight at the track. I noticed it was set to 90 ... Inch-pounds. I politely informed that he was setting his wheel torque to 1/12 of what it should have been.

[BlackTalon]

We don't normally check lug nut/ bolt torque, although we did have a volunteer a couple times last year. Never seen a torque wrench that goes to above 100 ft-lbs have a scale that would read as low as 90 in-lbs though. Plus 90 is not a normal setting; usually 95 or 95 ft-lbs.

[realroadrage]

Originally Posted by GT3

And finally while I am on a roll, instructors self-tech but there are those in RED group with way more track experience than some of the instructors... if you made it to the RED run group already...? just sayin'

One may consider self-tech a perk for those who volunteer to instruct.

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by mscheidt

One may consider self-tech a perk for those who volunteer to instruct.

Again no Self Tech for dogs sake!!! Volunteers get that warm and fuzzy from just helping people learn or improve a skill

[GT3]

Originally Posted by mscheidt

One may consider self-tech a perk for those who volunteer to instruct.

But I did volunteer to instruct at PCAP - twice now. Oh well.

No matter, I have been asked by other groups to instruct.

[GT3]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

One thing I think our tech group should do is to check wheel torque. Some of the n00bs get confused between ft-lbs and Nm.

Most other tech lines I go to they check torque - but only for 5-lug. No one ever has checked the centerlocks at any tech I have ever been to.

Of course, torquing too high was the problem I had and even tech wouldn't have caught that had they checked anyway.

[GT3]

Originally Posted by Trak Ratt

Again no Self Tech for dogs sake!!! Volunteers get that warm and fuzzy from just helping people learn or improve a skill

I would like to volunteer more time at DE events but I spend a lot of my time keeping the car(s) ready for two people - me and Sly. I also need/want to be there when Sly is strapping in, checking her belts, tire pressure, etc. and then paying attention and being available exclusively for Sly and her car before/during/after her sessions. At the few events a year that I go to when Sly is not driving I do volunteer, usually at pit road.

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by GT3

Most other tech lines I go to they check torque - but only for 5-lug. No one ever has checked the centerlocks at any tech I have ever been to.

We do spot checks on lug nuts. Lack of help is the usual reason we don't at grid tech. However we do check the locks on center lock wheels (that's why the center covers have to be removed in the tech line).

[Mrs. B-Man]

Originally Posted by GT3

I would like to volunteer more time at DE events but I spend a lot of my time keeping the car(s) ready for two people - me and Sly. I also need/want to be there when Sly is strapping in, checking her belts, tire pressure, etc. and then paying attention and being available exclusively for Sly and her car before/during/after her sessions.

I wish I had a man like you, Clarke. Oh, wait, I DO. Though the only bikini pictures he has of me are from when I was 7.