Post by HotWired Customs on Jan 31, 2014 20:47:21 GMT -5
Adair County Fair
Columbia, KY
Monday-July 7th: Mini Cars, Mowers & Powerwheels
Saturday-July 12th: Big Cars, Mowers & Powerwheels
Start Time for both days: 7 pm (cst)
ENTRY FEES: TBA
PAYOUTS:
Big Cars: $2000, $1500, $750
Small Cars: $1000, $500 & $250
Mowers: 80% payback (2-3 places being paid out)
Powerwheels: all kids get a trophy
Contacts:
Thomas Long: 270-634-3172
Ed Dial: 270-634-0688
2014 Big Car Preparation & Building
1. All cars must have a cage in order to run! Safety Precaution Only!!
2. Any Year Sedans and 1980 Newer Wagons only. No Imperials, Hearses, Roundback wagons or leaf sprung cars.
3. All glass, chrome molding, hood latches, gas tanks, and rear seats must be removed before cars arrive at the fairgrounds.
4. Stock type hood must be used. Hoods must be open for inspection. Hoods must be secured in 6 places with 2” by 2” x ¼ angle. NO longer than 6” with 3/8th bolts.
5. THE DRIVERS SIDE SEAT BELT MUST BE IN WORKING ORDER.
6. Gas tanks must be relocated behind driver’s seat, securely fastened and covered. Any visible leaking fuel will result in automatic disqualification. All plastic tanks must be in a steel enclosure. However, it cannot be bolted to strengthen the car.
7. Radiators must stay in original location. May be wired on all four corners.
8. You may run electric fan.
9. Batteries must be moved to the passenger’s side floor board. The battery box cannot strengthen the car in any way. NO more than 2 batteries.
10. No welding on frames or body seams. This will be checked. No plated frames.
11. Cutting the ends off bumpers and fenders for clearance is permitted.
12. All cars must sit level within 5” with no car sitting lowers than 16” from the bottom of the bumpers or higher than 21” from the bottom of the bumpers. The bottom of the frame rail should be 13” to the ground. No wedge cars.
13. Sunroofs have to be covered, no exceptions. Any type of fan has to be covered.
14. Factory condensers only. They may be wired in, not welded.
15. A welded 4-point cage can be put around driver’s compartment. It has to be no bigger than 4x6 inches and can be welded to car but not excessively. The front bar has to be 5 inches from the firewall and tunnel. The back cage bar no further back than 12”s past driver/passenger door posts. You can wire cage to rails in 4 places using # 9 wire or 2” ratchet straps.
16. Factory body bolts and bushings must be stock. Broken body bolts cannot be fixed. If broken, leave broken.
17. Motor swaps, rear end swaps, pulley protectors and engine cradles are allowed.
18. No distributor protectors are allowed at all.
19. You can use aftermarket steering column. After market tie rods, front sway bar on new model can be bolted to lower A-arm, not to be welded to frame.
20. Transmission coolers or oil coolers are allowed. No transmission protectors at all.
21. Car must bounce. Upper A-arm may be bolted using a 3/8th bolt in center, or wired for bumper height (no welding).
22. Any year factory bumpers which can be welded are allowed. DEC bumpers are allowed. Loaded factory bumpers are allowed, but no extreme pointed bumpers. 12” bumper shocks for new models must be inside frame rail. Old models can weld bumper bracket with one weld pass. You may modify a back bumper maximum ¼” thick of 2”x5” tubing. Back bumper cannot be loaded and ends cannot be capped.
23. Slip shaft are allowed with rear end braces but no kicker to rails.
24. Trunk lids can be welded with 8 plates, maximum of 6” long, 1/8th x 3 “thick material with 6” of space between them. Trunk needs to be standing up until after inspection then can swag with rear quarters to remain standing. Body creasing is allowed. Window bars are allowed from back glass to lower part of speaker deck, not to truck lid in any way. This is for safety. It must be a factory car trunk lid with a 12” inspection hole cut into it!
25. Can pitch front rails by ONLY cutting outside flap and then pulling down and re-welding that flap with one pass of weld.
26. NO WELDING except bumpers and motor mounts.
27. Roll over bars are mandatory. Must be straight up and down.
28. You may use 1” all thread in core support or 1” max tubing in core support. No welding of the tubes down the side of the frame. The factory eye where the all thread is, you can do away with the factory eye and use a ¼” thick by 3” wide plate, and can only go from seam weld of the rail out. Core support spacers can only be a maximum of a 5” spacer, this will be strictly enforced! May shorten rails 4” maximum in front of factory eye. Factory eye must remain in factory location.
29. Doors can be welded shut using 3” by 1/8” thick material. Weld 6” inches, skip 6” inches.
Mini Car Rules
(Country Boy Style Rules)
1. Wheelbase is 108" no full frame cars or frame clips from full frame cars (no altering wheelbase to meet 108")
2. Can have 4/6/8 cylinder engines
3. distributor protectors and trans brace are ok
4. Radiator must be in oem location
5. engine must be mounted within 12" of oem location
6. solid motor mounts are ok
7. No hydraulic steering
Bumpers
1. Bumpers can be loaded or homemade, NO HOLE PUNCHING NASTY POINTS!!!!
Suspension
1. Suspension can be solid
2. No leaf spring conversions
3. any automotive rearend
4. doubling or homemade trailing arms are OK
5. leaf springs can NOT extend past factory mounting areas
6. leafs be upto 9 per pack no thickness restriction
Cage
1. Cage must be safe and approved by inspection
2. roll over bar is mandatory
4. bars from the roof to the trunk area are limited to 2 and not to extend past the center of the trunk. Example do not attach it to the rear bumper.
5. Cage can not extend past the rear hump.
Body
1. body can be skinned and welded solid (skin the doors and rear sheetmetal of car, not the whole car!) Be smart 1/8" etc NOT 1/2" or anything ignorant.
2. wheel well opening must be present, nothing protecting the tires/rims
3. No solid metal radiator protectors, expanded metal or grading is fine.
Lawnmower Demolition Derby Rules
1. Mower must be a factory available mower lawn or garden mower (no homemade frames).
2. No rear engine lawn mowers are allowed.
3. Engine must be factory lawn mower engine such as Briggs & Stratton, Tecumseh, Onan, etc.
4. All modification and frame reinforcing will be allowed.
5. Transaxles must be factory available mower transaxles, but any reinforcing and/or welding of spider gears is permitted.
6. Engine bay reinforcing is permitted but must be contained inside of hood and must maintain factory body lines.
7. All mowers must run a factory hood and fenders and have the hood either screwed or welded down to dash panel around drivers area (note: if hood is fiberglass you can make one out of sheet metal only, but must be the same size as the fiberglass one.) Hoods should not be any thicker than sheet metal.
8. Mowers must have good brakes, forward, and reverse gears at the start of the heat.
9. Gas tank must be secured and have a cap on it (any gas at all leaking and you will be asked to shut it down).
10. Leg guards are mandatory and must be bolted and/or welded from rear fender to front of foot rest or frame.
11. A rear bumper is permitted, but is not allowed to extend more than 4 inches out and it must stay in between the tires. Also no spikes, no sharp edges or any protrusions allowed (bumper can be home-made with I/H beam or square tubing).
12. Re-gearing and changing of pulleys to increase speed is permitted and encouraged.
13. Any and all drive-train modifications are permitted but must stay belt driven.
14. All mowers must use lawn mower type wheels. Tractor treads and cut tires will be permitted but no tire chains or dual wheels will be allowed.
15. Mower decks must be removed.
16. All headlights and any other glass and plastics must be removed before you enter the fairgrounds.
17. Batteries must be removed from mower and only used to jump start the mower before the heat begins. If a pull start is used, drivers will not be permitted to restart engine during the heat.
18. No front bumpers. You can build up the front of the frame and underneath the grill to hit with. The front of the mower must be a smooth finish for safety.
19. Roll-over driver is out of the heat. Also if a driver touches the ground with a hand or foot, the driver is also out of the heat.
20. For safety, if a mower rolls over, all drivers must stop and wait until that driver is up-rights his mower and gets off the track.
21. Please put your number on each side of your mower or your helmet so we can track the winners.
22. Mowers must have a kill switch.
23. All ground rules will be gone over in a drivers meet before the heat.
24. Must run pumped gas and not alcohol.
Keep in mind when building your mower, safety first for you and the mower you are hitting. Before any payouts, we may ask to look inside the mower for any batteries or chain driven set ups or shafts type set ups.
Power Wheels Demolition Derby Rules
1. Ages: 4-8 years old only
2. 12 volt power wheels only
3. 1 power wheels 12 volt battery or equal
4. Stock tires
5. Nothing added for strength. (Basically just like you bought them from the store.)
Let your child have some fun painting them up!
Columbia, KY
Monday-July 7th: Mini Cars, Mowers & Powerwheels
Saturday-July 12th: Big Cars, Mowers & Powerwheels
Start Time for both days: 7 pm (cst)
ENTRY FEES: TBA
PAYOUTS:
Big Cars: $2000, $1500, $750
Small Cars: $1000, $500 & $250
Mowers: 80% payback (2-3 places being paid out)
Powerwheels: all kids get a trophy
Contacts:
Thomas Long: 270-634-3172
Ed Dial: 270-634-0688
2014 Big Car Preparation & Building
1. All cars must have a cage in order to run! Safety Precaution Only!!
2. Any Year Sedans and 1980 Newer Wagons only. No Imperials, Hearses, Roundback wagons or leaf sprung cars.
3. All glass, chrome molding, hood latches, gas tanks, and rear seats must be removed before cars arrive at the fairgrounds.
4. Stock type hood must be used. Hoods must be open for inspection. Hoods must be secured in 6 places with 2” by 2” x ¼ angle. NO longer than 6” with 3/8th bolts.
5. THE DRIVERS SIDE SEAT BELT MUST BE IN WORKING ORDER.
6. Gas tanks must be relocated behind driver’s seat, securely fastened and covered. Any visible leaking fuel will result in automatic disqualification. All plastic tanks must be in a steel enclosure. However, it cannot be bolted to strengthen the car.
7. Radiators must stay in original location. May be wired on all four corners.
8. You may run electric fan.
9. Batteries must be moved to the passenger’s side floor board. The battery box cannot strengthen the car in any way. NO more than 2 batteries.
10. No welding on frames or body seams. This will be checked. No plated frames.
11. Cutting the ends off bumpers and fenders for clearance is permitted.
12. All cars must sit level within 5” with no car sitting lowers than 16” from the bottom of the bumpers or higher than 21” from the bottom of the bumpers. The bottom of the frame rail should be 13” to the ground. No wedge cars.
13. Sunroofs have to be covered, no exceptions. Any type of fan has to be covered.
14. Factory condensers only. They may be wired in, not welded.
15. A welded 4-point cage can be put around driver’s compartment. It has to be no bigger than 4x6 inches and can be welded to car but not excessively. The front bar has to be 5 inches from the firewall and tunnel. The back cage bar no further back than 12”s past driver/passenger door posts. You can wire cage to rails in 4 places using # 9 wire or 2” ratchet straps.
16. Factory body bolts and bushings must be stock. Broken body bolts cannot be fixed. If broken, leave broken.
17. Motor swaps, rear end swaps, pulley protectors and engine cradles are allowed.
18. No distributor protectors are allowed at all.
19. You can use aftermarket steering column. After market tie rods, front sway bar on new model can be bolted to lower A-arm, not to be welded to frame.
20. Transmission coolers or oil coolers are allowed. No transmission protectors at all.
21. Car must bounce. Upper A-arm may be bolted using a 3/8th bolt in center, or wired for bumper height (no welding).
22. Any year factory bumpers which can be welded are allowed. DEC bumpers are allowed. Loaded factory bumpers are allowed, but no extreme pointed bumpers. 12” bumper shocks for new models must be inside frame rail. Old models can weld bumper bracket with one weld pass. You may modify a back bumper maximum ¼” thick of 2”x5” tubing. Back bumper cannot be loaded and ends cannot be capped.
23. Slip shaft are allowed with rear end braces but no kicker to rails.
24. Trunk lids can be welded with 8 plates, maximum of 6” long, 1/8th x 3 “thick material with 6” of space between them. Trunk needs to be standing up until after inspection then can swag with rear quarters to remain standing. Body creasing is allowed. Window bars are allowed from back glass to lower part of speaker deck, not to truck lid in any way. This is for safety. It must be a factory car trunk lid with a 12” inspection hole cut into it!
25. Can pitch front rails by ONLY cutting outside flap and then pulling down and re-welding that flap with one pass of weld.
26. NO WELDING except bumpers and motor mounts.
27. Roll over bars are mandatory. Must be straight up and down.
28. You may use 1” all thread in core support or 1” max tubing in core support. No welding of the tubes down the side of the frame. The factory eye where the all thread is, you can do away with the factory eye and use a ¼” thick by 3” wide plate, and can only go from seam weld of the rail out. Core support spacers can only be a maximum of a 5” spacer, this will be strictly enforced! May shorten rails 4” maximum in front of factory eye. Factory eye must remain in factory location.
29. Doors can be welded shut using 3” by 1/8” thick material. Weld 6” inches, skip 6” inches.
Mini Car Rules
(Country Boy Style Rules)
1. Wheelbase is 108" no full frame cars or frame clips from full frame cars (no altering wheelbase to meet 108")
2. Can have 4/6/8 cylinder engines
3. distributor protectors and trans brace are ok
4. Radiator must be in oem location
5. engine must be mounted within 12" of oem location
6. solid motor mounts are ok
7. No hydraulic steering
Bumpers
1. Bumpers can be loaded or homemade, NO HOLE PUNCHING NASTY POINTS!!!!
Suspension
1. Suspension can be solid
2. No leaf spring conversions
3. any automotive rearend
4. doubling or homemade trailing arms are OK
5. leaf springs can NOT extend past factory mounting areas
6. leafs be upto 9 per pack no thickness restriction
Cage
1. Cage must be safe and approved by inspection
2. roll over bar is mandatory
4. bars from the roof to the trunk area are limited to 2 and not to extend past the center of the trunk. Example do not attach it to the rear bumper.
5. Cage can not extend past the rear hump.
Body
1. body can be skinned and welded solid (skin the doors and rear sheetmetal of car, not the whole car!) Be smart 1/8" etc NOT 1/2" or anything ignorant.
2. wheel well opening must be present, nothing protecting the tires/rims
3. No solid metal radiator protectors, expanded metal or grading is fine.
Lawnmower Demolition Derby Rules
1. Mower must be a factory available mower lawn or garden mower (no homemade frames).
2. No rear engine lawn mowers are allowed.
3. Engine must be factory lawn mower engine such as Briggs & Stratton, Tecumseh, Onan, etc.
4. All modification and frame reinforcing will be allowed.
5. Transaxles must be factory available mower transaxles, but any reinforcing and/or welding of spider gears is permitted.
6. Engine bay reinforcing is permitted but must be contained inside of hood and must maintain factory body lines.
7. All mowers must run a factory hood and fenders and have the hood either screwed or welded down to dash panel around drivers area (note: if hood is fiberglass you can make one out of sheet metal only, but must be the same size as the fiberglass one.) Hoods should not be any thicker than sheet metal.
8. Mowers must have good brakes, forward, and reverse gears at the start of the heat.
9. Gas tank must be secured and have a cap on it (any gas at all leaking and you will be asked to shut it down).
10. Leg guards are mandatory and must be bolted and/or welded from rear fender to front of foot rest or frame.
11. A rear bumper is permitted, but is not allowed to extend more than 4 inches out and it must stay in between the tires. Also no spikes, no sharp edges or any protrusions allowed (bumper can be home-made with I/H beam or square tubing).
12. Re-gearing and changing of pulleys to increase speed is permitted and encouraged.
13. Any and all drive-train modifications are permitted but must stay belt driven.
14. All mowers must use lawn mower type wheels. Tractor treads and cut tires will be permitted but no tire chains or dual wheels will be allowed.
15. Mower decks must be removed.
16. All headlights and any other glass and plastics must be removed before you enter the fairgrounds.
17. Batteries must be removed from mower and only used to jump start the mower before the heat begins. If a pull start is used, drivers will not be permitted to restart engine during the heat.
18. No front bumpers. You can build up the front of the frame and underneath the grill to hit with. The front of the mower must be a smooth finish for safety.
19. Roll-over driver is out of the heat. Also if a driver touches the ground with a hand or foot, the driver is also out of the heat.
20. For safety, if a mower rolls over, all drivers must stop and wait until that driver is up-rights his mower and gets off the track.
21. Please put your number on each side of your mower or your helmet so we can track the winners.
22. Mowers must have a kill switch.
23. All ground rules will be gone over in a drivers meet before the heat.
24. Must run pumped gas and not alcohol.
Keep in mind when building your mower, safety first for you and the mower you are hitting. Before any payouts, we may ask to look inside the mower for any batteries or chain driven set ups or shafts type set ups.
Power Wheels Demolition Derby Rules
1. Ages: 4-8 years old only
2. 12 volt power wheels only
3. 1 power wheels 12 volt battery or equal
4. Stock tires
5. Nothing added for strength. (Basically just like you bought them from the store.)
Let your child have some fun painting them up!
