Fuel/Oil lines tagged

Still trying to figure out what exactly is meant by the new rules about hydrostatic testing of fuel and oil lines.

Specifically, who can test them. If anyone knows of someone who can tag lines in Florida or anywhere for that matter, please let me know.

Bob

 

The rule book or the tech section on the nhra web site has contacts

 

Tagging ? oil & fuel lines

All the companies I have asked about this , will not tag ANY lines other than the ones they make themselves !!

 

mph in indianapolis will tag your lines.

 

oil line

Hyatt racing services

 

co-line welding in iowa will ask for eric..Dave

 

Sources

I couldn't find the info on NHRA's site but found this.

http://www.ihra.com/competition/line_testing.php

 

tags

The way I read it is if it is for IHRA racing, + it is not factory crimped, you do not need it tagged. I am sure I read it wrong. But you need to get it checked anyway. I would say call Hyatt today. NHRA doesn't race for a couple of weeks. He is only in Ohio You could have them back by the weekend if you need to. Good Luck

 

CV Products

Just sent my lines out to CV products in NC.

$5 per line for testing and tagging. Quick turn around as well.

I run nostalgia top fuel with NHRA but the rules are starting to look a lot like Top Alky.


Bob

 

thats what mph charges also.

 

??

I havent seen where NHRA is requiring fuel lines to be tested and tagged for TAFC. Is this something I have missed? Dave Germain

 

Lines tested

I'm not sure which classes are being required to test lines.
When I talked with CV products, they told me they were doing it for several classes.

NHRA came up with this new rule for Nostalgia Top Fuel but most of their rules are based on something in the normal NHRA rule book but I was unable to find info anywhere on their web page or rules.

I'd find it hard to believe that my class is the only one requiring it and having all those companies set up for it based on, perhaps, a total of 15 cars nationwide?

Bob

 

Tagging of lines

In some respects this is a worthless endeavor. As soon I remove a fitting and reassemble it, the test is void and invalid. Do they tag the lines in such a way that the fittings and therefore the sealed part of the assembly can't be disturbed?

Does anyone know what drove them to implement this rule? Was there a bunch of line failures that caused fires, oil downs, etc?