Rendering door locks inoperable

[RebekahsZ]

The ECTA requires that door locks be rendered inoperable so that in the event of a crash, the safety workers can reach in and get your burning corpse out of the car even if your elbow mashes down the door lock plunger in the chaos of your tumbling rolling mess at the fast end of the track when you blow a tire at 175mph due to the crappy 40-year-old rim you have to run due to your stupid 4x114.3 bolt pattern hubs. I present a simple way of complying with this rule book paragraph. Strangely, the Japanese Z car uses an SAE 8x32 post for the male threaded section of the door lock rod. So you don't need to make 4 trips to the specialty hardware store and spend $1 per nut for fine thread metric nuts (this project has made me a little nuts!). So you get a washer and a nut and screw them on in place of plastic lock plunger and the paragraph is complied with. Put a section of vacuum hose over the exposed rod so you don't rip you elbow on it. Done. Why not remove the rod, you say? Well, you might want to quickly reverse this setup to be able to lock tools inside your car during transport, or you might want to lock the car when you drive it to work on Monday after the race.

Edited April 12, 2015 by RebekahsZ