What did they ask you to change??
To another car just about. It's the first time I've experienced a tough scrutineering. Frowns all round at the furriness of the interior.
To be fair they were just pointing out the obvious like holes in the rear firewall and fuel tank visible. Even though it's passed like this before I can't complain. Of most concern to them was the first aid kit hole which was taped up temporarily for this meet. Suspension holes, I put the plastic caps back in there and the speaker holes don't open up to the tank area anyway so they were left.
They just don't like the idea of the two factory side bonnet catches as supplementary restraints for the bonnet. I'll either put bonnet pins on or wire straps on the interior of the bonnet.
Catch can - perhaps the biggest query. I'm not experienced with only a handful of races under my belt but I've tried to read regs and CAMS rules so I don't stuff up. In a performance setup where clean air is desirable for combustion, crankcase vapours go into a catch can which can condensate the fluid and release clean air via a filter into the atmosphere or that air can be recirculated into a the air intake again. So that's what I thought the idea of an oil catch can was - a performance thing so the engine isn't rebreathing and recombusting blowby gases and oil vapour.
As you said Ian, that crap being recycled is going to lower octane and fuel/air mix quality with the overall result being a loss of power. The reason I was given for needing an oil catch can was because my car wasn't road registered. It could be written, I don't know and I'm not going to look. I've wanted to put one on anyway hoping for a performance gain. When you're as slow as me you need it. It just sounded like an odd rule that a road registered car on the track can stick with OEM setup but a track car can't.
In the end I was given the go ahead so long as things were fixed for next comp and temporary measures were taken to cover up rear firewall holes. It was amusing though that Cam wasn't subjected to the rear firewall holes scrutiny, but he did get spoken to about bonnet restraints and the catch can.
Lining up for scrutineering.
Discussing catch cans, or lack of.
Pleading to race
The furry mess and patched hole.