| Demolition Derby Rules & Regulations |
NO ALCOHOL OR COOLERS MAY BE BROUGHT INTO THE PIT AREA THIS YEAR. FOOD, DRINK, AND ADULT BEVERAGES WILL BE SOLD. LEE COUNTY FAIR BOARD WILL HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE REGARDING ALCOHOL AND DRIVERS |
Lee County Rules for 2010 Saturday, July 10, 2010 – 7:00 p.m. Fair board member in charge of derby: Les Roth (319) 931-3474 For questions on car preparations contact: Travis Kramer (319) 795-2804 (80’s & newer and the old iron class) Chad Stuecker (319)795-3948 (compacts, mid-size, and trucks) CLASSES: 80’s and Newer 1st $1000, 2nd $650, 3rd $375, 4th $250, 5th 150 Trucks 1st $850, 2nd $550, 3rd $375 4th $250 5th $150 Compacts 1st $750, 2nd $500, 3rd $350, 4th $150, 5th $75 Mid-Size NEW THIS YEAR! 1st $750 2nd $500 3rd $350 4th $150 5th $75 (AMC Pacers, Gremlins, Spirits, etc. will be allowed to run in this class) Old Iron 1st $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $150 THERE IS A 10 CAR MINIMUM (PER CLASS) TO RECEIVE FULL PAYOUT. All cars and trucks must be thru the line and inspected by 5:30. Be early & on time or you will not run. Gates open at 2:00. First and foremost: NO REINFORCING OF THE FRAMES OR BODIES OF ANY KIND! Read the rules and abide by them. We will be firm but fair!!!!!! GENERAL RULES 1) All rules will be followed or you will not run! 2) If your car does not pass inspection you will be given one chance to fix or change what is wrong and come back thru inspection. (once) 3) Drivers must be 18 yrs of age and have a valid drivers license. Ages 16 & 17 must have a notarized permission slip and some form of drivers license. 4) The person who signs in the car must be the driver for the event. 5) Drivers must wear seatbelt, helmet, and eye protection of some sort at all times (long sleeve shirts & fire suits are recommended). All drivers must sign the waiver & entry form before competing. 6) Drivers must remain in the vehicle with seatbelt, helmet, and eye protection on until notified by an official that it is safe to exit. 7) Do not hit the driver’s door! Sometimes it happens, but if it looks intentional or careless, you will be disqualified. Don’t use your door as a shield. You will be disqualified for repeated use. 8) No sandbagging or holding. 9) You must make an aggressive hit/contact within 60 seconds. You will be given 1 minute for restarts and for hang-ups. 10) If you have 2 fires of any kind that require extinguished, you will be disqualified. 11) No covering the underside of your car with mud. No painting, undercoating, or greasing of the frames. If you do, you will not be inspected and you will not run. 12) No hot rodding in the pits. Keep it to an idle. 13) No alcohol in the pits. Any driver or crew member caught with alcohol will be disqualified and entry fee will not be refunded. 14) Cars are subject to re-inspection prior to any prize money being handed out. 15) All drivers & crew members must attend the drivers meeting. 16) Any questions or controversies will be taken up at the drivers meeting. 17) Any questions give us a call first. If it doesn’t say you can do it, don’t do it. 18) Officials’ decision is final! 19) Hoods must be opened for inspection. GENERAL CAR PREPARATIONS (applies to all the classes) 1) All cars must be stock unless modification is stated in rules. THIS MEANS NO REINFORCING OF THE FRAMES OR BODIES! (no plating or adding gussets, no welding on the frame seams, no frame stuffing or cement, etc). 2) All glass, plastic, chrome, pot metal and interior must be removed. 3) All decking in station wagons must be removed. 4) Clean all glass and junk out of the bottom of the doors and trunk. 5) All flammable materials must be removed except for safety padding & drivers seat. 6) No mud, fresh painting, undercoating, or greasing of the frames. 7) Tires no bigger than 15”. No split rims. Foam filled or doubled tires OK- we don’t want any flats. Valve stem protectors OK. 8) You must use a radiator and it must be in the stock location. Over-flow coolant hose must point down. 9) All cars must have working brakes. 10) A-arms, ball joints, and tie rods must remain stock. 11) All trailer hitches and bracing must be removed. 12) Original gas tanks must be removed. You must use a boat tank, or well made fuel cell, and it must be properly secured & covered with a rubber mat (no carpet or cloth). NO GAS CANS! Plastic gas tanks must be covered with a metal shield. Fuel line must be properly secured. No fuel lines hanging under the car (keep them away from the exhaust). Place fuel cell behind driver’s seat or in center of car. If you need to use the org. tank, due to the fuel injection system, you will be allowed to. Just make sure it is properly secured and covered. If you are running an electric fuel pump, it must be hooked up to your ignition switch – so when car is shut off, it shuts off. 13) Transmission coolers will be allowed, but must be safe and properly secured. 14) Batteries must be moved to the passenger floorboard (close to transmission). They must be properly secured and covered. 15) No distributor protectors. You may cut a hole in the firewall. 16) For driver’s protection, you must have a bar behind your seat from doorpost to doorpost. You must also have a windshield bar (from the roof to the dash). 17) All vehicles must have a roof sign displaying their number (minimum 15x15). You must also paint your number in bright, contrasting colors on both the drivers’ door and the front passenger door. This is required for judging & recognition. COMPACT CARS Prize money: 1st $750, 2nd $500, 3rd $350, 4th $150, 5th $75 1) Any car that has a wheelbase of 106 inches or less and came factory with a 4 cyl. engine. 2) You may run a 6 cyl. engine but it must be a car that came factory with a 4 cyl. engine. (example: Chevy Celebrity, Ford Fairmont, etc.) 3) No AMC’s! (no Pacers, Gremlins, Spirits, etc) These will be allowed to run in the mid-size class. 4) You may run a 4wd car, but you may only run it in 2wd. (must remove the rear drive shaft etc) 5) You may weld the doors, trunks, and hatches solid (on the outside only). You may use filler rod, (no bigger than 3/8 in diameter), or flat stock, (no wider than 3 inches and no thicker than 1/4 inch), to do so. 6) If you do not weld your doors, trunks, or hatches, you may use #9 wire or chain (no larger than 3/8). (4 places per seam) 7) Hoods must open for inspection. 8) You may bolt your trunk down thru the drip rails using 3/8 or smaller bolts/all-thread. (10 places) 9) You may fold your trunk decks over, but 60% of the deck must be in the factory position. 10) You may lay your trunk lid on the trunk floor and wire it down with #9 wire in 4 places. (3 loops) 11) No metal straps or wire from the trunk lid (or tailgate) to the rear bumper. 12) You may bolt the hood and trunk outer skins to the inner structure using 1/4 bolts. 13) Hood must have at least a 12 inch hole cut in it, in case of a fire. 14) You are allowed up to 8 hood bolts, no larger than 1/2 inch in diameter. Six of them may be bolted thru the frame (but not welded to the frame). You must have at least 4. Hood washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. 15) After inspection, you may wire your hood down to the bumper in 4 plcs with #9 wire. (4 loops max) 16) Bumpers are interchangeable. Any automotive bumper or bracket may be used. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO THE INSIDE OF YOUR BUMPER, BUT THE OUTSIDE MUST REMAIN STOCK APPEARING. No homemade bumpers or brackets. You may weld or bolt (or both) the bumper brackets/towers to the frame. You may weld the bumper brackets & shocks to the bumper. You may weld the shocks to the shock towers. You may collapse the shocks & weld them solid. You may trim the bumper ends, or fold them around & weld them. You may weld the bumper seams, and you may weld the outer chrome skin to the bumper frame itself. 17) You may not weld the bumper to the body. 18) Do not weld on the frame seams or frame itself. No plating of the frame or body. 19) You may bolt the floor seams together on the inside of the car using 1/4 bolts. 20) You may cut your wheel wells out for clearance and bolt them back together using 3/8 or smaller bolts. (5 plcs) 21) You may weld your rearend. 22) You may foam fill or double your tires. 23) Suspension must be stock height. Leaf springs must be stock. You may reclamp springs. (4 clamps per spring- homemade or factory). Homemade clamps cannot exceed 2x4x1/4 inch. You may put spacers in sagging coil springs to get your height. You may wire coil springs in to prevent them from falling out. 24) For drivers’ protection, you must have a bar behind your seat from doorpost to doorpost (no larger than 4 inches in diameter). You must also have a windshield bar (from the roof to the dash). You may run a bar across your dash, which you may connect to the bar behind your seat on the inside of the front doors only. NO KICKERS! You may run a plate on the outside of the drivers door (but it may not be wider than 6 inches and it may not exceed 6 inches past the door seams), and you may run a roll -over bar (roll loop). MID-SIZE CARS Prize Money: 1st $750 2nd $500 3rd $350 1) Any car with a wheelbase of 108 inches or less, (example: Chevy Lumina, Monte Carlo, Buick Regal, etc.) AMC Pacers, Gremlins, Spirits, etc. WILL BE ALLOWED to run in this class. Factory spec wheelbase lengths will be used. 2) You may run any engine and tranny combo that you like. 3) All other compact and general preparation rules apply. OLD IRON Prize money: 1st $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $150 1) All general rules & general car preparations apply. 2) Any American made sedan or station wagon may run. No 1970 or older Lincolns. No 1973 or older Imperials or Imperial sub-frames. No 4X4’s, ambulances, hearses, trucks, limousines, etc. NO SEDAGONS or WEDGE CARS! 3) No welding on the frame or body other than what is stated below. 4) You may weld the doors on both the outside and the inside. Weld the trunk and tailgate on the outside only. You may use filler rod, (no bigger than 3/8 in diameter), or flat stock, (no wider than 3 inches, no thicker than 1/4 inch), to do so. 5) No welding of the body seams on the inside of the car. 6) You may bolt your trunk down thru the drip rails using 3/8 or smaller bolts/all-thread. (10 places) 7) You may fold your trunk decks over, but 60% of the deck must be in the factory position. 8) You may lay your trunk lid on the trunk floor and either wire it down with #9 wire in 4 places (3 loops), or bolt it down (using no bigger than 1 inch bolts/all-thread) in 4 places. These may go thru the frame, but don’t weld them to the frame. Washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. Leave these loose until after inspection so we can look in between the trunk lid and the floor. 9) No metal straps or wire from the trunk lid (or tailgate) to the rear bumper. 10) You may cut your wheel wells out for clearance and bolt them back together, using no larger than 3/8 dia bolts, in 5 places. 11) You may bolt the hood and trunk outer skins to the inner structure using 1/4 bolts. 12) You may weld the top frame seam from the front of the A-arms forward. The weld may not be any wider than 1/2 inch. DO NOT WELD THE BOTTOM SIDE. 13) Buicks, Olds, & Pontiacs may fill the crush hole. (The large hole in the frame behind the radiator support). This must be a butt fit and it must be a one pass weld only. No over-lapping. 14) You may notch the frame for minimal pre-bending, but DO NOT weld the cut. 15) You may remove all the body mounts and sinch the body down against the frame. DO NOT weld the body to the frame. You may use up to 3/4 inch bolts. You may add two body mounts in the rear arches, but they must pass thru the factory frame holes. 16) You may patch rust holes in sheet metal with sheet metal only. Do not cut the rust out. Weld 2 inches beyond the rust. NO PATCHING OF THE FRAMES! 17) Bumpers are interchangeable. Any automotive bumper or bracket may be used. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO THE INSIDE OF YOUR BUMPERS, BUT THE OUTSIDE MUST REMAIN STOCK APPREARING! No homemade bumpers or brackets. You may weld or bolt (or both) the bumper brackets/towers to the frame. You may weld the bumper brackets & shocks to the bumper. You may weld the shocks to the shock towers. You may collapse the shocks & weld them solid. You may trim the bumper ends, or fold them around & weld them. You may weld the bumper seams, and you may weld the outer chrome skin to the bumper frame itself. 18) You may not weld the bumper to the body. 19) If you choose not to use brackets, you may weld your bumper directly to the frame. 20) Use engine and tranny of choice. Engine must be in the stock location. You may weld (or chain) the motor & tranny in place, but don’t strengthen the frame. Weld the motor mounts to the engine cradle, NOT TO THE FRAME! 21) No distributor protectors. You may cut a hole in the firewall. 22) Use rearend of choice. Must be 5 lug (no 8 bolt rearends made into 5 lug rearends). NO 3/4 TON REARENDS OR FLOATERS. Welded or locked rearends are recommended. 23) You may tilt your rearend, but you must start out with stock trailing arms. NO HOME-MADE ARMS. 24) SUSPENSION: You may leaf your cars in this class. Wagons may run up to 9 leafs. Sedans may run up to 7 leafs. NO RAPTOR FAB or HOMEMADE LEAF SPRINGS. (Leafs no thicker than 5/16). Leafs exceed 2x4x1/4 inch. 27) U-bolts-7/16 max. You must use the stock mounting plates. 28) Rear shackle must mount within 6 inches, of the stock location, of the rear bumper bracket. Rear shackle may not be larger than 4”X 6”X 3/8 and it must be bolted thru the frame, not welded solid. (it must be able to move) 29) You may duct tape your leafs after inspection. 30) IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGUARDING THE LEAF SPRING CONVERSION, CALL TRAVIS! 31) If you are running a coil spring car and it is sagging; you may change the coils, double the coils, or add coil spacers to the coils to get your height. 32) Car must have a working suspension and bounce freely. So if you chain your rearends in, (which you may) you must leave enough slack for the suspension to work. NO SOLID SHOCKS! 33) Hood must open for inspection. 34) Hood must have at least a 12 inch hole cut in it, in case of a fire. 35) You are allowed up to 8 hood bolts, up to 1 inch in diameter. Six of them may be bolted thru the frame (but not welded to the frame). Hood washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. 36) After inspection, you may wire your hood down to the bumper in 4 plcs with #9 wire. (4 loops max) 37) For drivers’ protection, you must have a bar behind your seat from doorpost to doorpost (no larger than 4 inches in diameter). You must also have a windshield bar (from the roof to the dash). You may also run a bar across your dash, which you may connect to the bar behind your seat on the inside of the front doors only. NO KICKERS! You may run a plate on the outside of the drivers door (but it may not be wider than 6 inches and it may not exceed 6 inches past the door seams), and you may run a roll-over bar (roll loop). 38) Hard top cars may weld a bar /strap from the roof to the doorpost. 80’S and NEWER Prize money: 1st $1000, 2nd 650, 3rd $375, 4th $250, 5th $150 ABSOLUTELY NO WELDING ON THE FRAME OR BODY OTHER THAN WHAT IS STATED IN THE RULES! IF YOU DO, YOU WILL NOT RUN!!!!! 1) All general rules & general car preparations apply. 2) Any 1980 or newer American made sedan or station wagon may run. No 4X4’s, ambulances, hearses, trucks, limousines, etc. NO SEDAGONS or WEDGE CARS! 3) No coil to leaf spring conversions in this class! 4) No cross breeding of body and frames. Must be correct frame to body combo! 5) No welding on the frames or body other than what is stated below. 6) NEW!!! Fords may cold bend the front end or cut the crush boxes, bend them, and reweld them. JUST WELD THEM-NO ADDING METAL! 7) You may weld the doors, trunk, and tailgate solid (on the outside only). You may use filler rod, (no bigger than 3/8 in diameter), or flat stock, (no wider than 3 inches, no thicker than 1/4 inch, to do so. 8) No welding of the doors or body seams on the inside of the car. 9) If you do not weld your doors, trunks, or tailgates, you may use #9 wire or chain (no larger than 3/8). (4 places per seam) 10) You may bolt your trunk down thru the drip rails using 3/8 or smaller bolts/all-thread. (10 places) 11) You may fold your trunk decks over, but 60% of the deck must be in the factory position. 12) You may lay your trunk lid on the trunk floor and either wire it down with #9 wire in 4 places (3 loops), or bolt it down (using no bigger than 1 inch bolts/all-thread) in 4 places. These may go thru the frame, but don’t weld them to the frame. Washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. Leave these loose until after inspection so we can look in between the trunk lid and the floor. 13) No metal straps or wire from the trunk lid (or tailgate) to the rear bumper. 14) You may cut your wheel wells out for clearance and bolt them back together, using no larger than 3/8 dia bolts, in 5 places. 15) Bumpers are interchangeable. Any automotive bumper or bracket may be used. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO THE INSIDE OF YOUR BUMPERS, BUT THE OUTSIDE MUST REMAIN STOCK APPEARING. No homemade bumpers or brackets. You may weld or bolt (or both) the bumper brackets/towers to the frame. You may weld the bumper brackets & shocks to the bumper. You may weld the shocks to the shock towers. You may collapse the shocks & weld them solid. You may trim the bumper ends, or fold them around & weld them. You may weld the bumper seams, and you may weld the outer chrome skin to the bumper frame itself. 16) You may not weld the bumper to the body. 17) If you choose not to use brackets, you may weld your bumper directly to the frame. 18) You may notch the frame for minimal pre-bending, but DO NOT weld the cut. 19) You may remove all the body mounts and sinch the body down against the frame. DO NOT weld the body to the frame. You may use up to 3/4 inch bolts. You may add two body mounts in the rear arches, but they must pass thru the factory frame holes. 20) You may patch rust holes in sheet metal with sheet metal only. Do not cut the rust out. Weld 2 inches beyond the rust. NO PATCHING OF THE FRAMES! 21) Use motor and tranny of choice. Motor must be in the stock location. You may weld (or chain) the motor & tranny in place, but don’t strengthen the frame. Weld the motor mounts to the engine cradle, NOT TO THE FRAME! IF WE FEEL YOUR MOTOR MOUNTS AND CRADLE ARE EXCESSIVE AND ARE STRENGTHENING THE FRAME, YOU WILL FIX THEM OR YOU WILL NOT RUN!! 22) No distributor protectors. You may cut a hole in the firewall. 23) Use rearend of choice. Must be 5 lug (no 8 bolt rearends made into 5 lug rearends). NO 3/4 TON REARENDS OR FLOATERS. Welded or locked rearends are recommended. 24) You may tilt your rearend, but you must start out with stock trailing arms. NO HOME-MADE ARMS. 25) Car must have a working suspension and bounce freely. NO SOLID SHOCKS! 26) To get your factory height back on sagging cars, coil spring cars may change the coils, double the coils, or add coil spacers to the coils. Factory leaf spring 80 or newer cars, may add a leaf. (but the total number or leafs may not be more than 5) 27) Hood must open for inspection. 28) Hood must have at least a 12 inch hole cut in it, in case of a fire. 29) You may bolt the hood and trunk outer skins to the inner structure using 1/4 bolts. 30) You are allowed up to 8 hood bolts, up to 1 inch in diameter. Six of them may be bolted thru the frame (but not welded to the frame). Hood washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. 31) After inspection, you may wire your hood down to the bumper in 4 plcs with #9 wire. (4 loops max) 32) For drivers’ protection, you must have a bar behind your seat from doorpost to doorpost (no larger than 4 inches in diameter). You must also have a windshield bar (from the roof to the dash). You may run a bar across your dash, which you may connect to the bar behind your seat on the inside of the front doors only. NO KICKERS! You may run a plate on the outside of the drivers door (but it may not be wider than 6 inches and it may not exceed 6 inches past the door seams), and you may run a roll -over bar (roll loop). 33) Hard top cars may weld a bar /strap from the roof to the door post. 34) Reminder NO WELDING ON THE FRAMES OR FRAME SEAMS. No painting, undercoating, or greasing of the frames. Do not cover the underside of your car with mud. TRUCKS Prize money: 1st $850, 2nd $550, 3rd $375 4th $250 5th $150 1) All general rules & general car preparations apply. 2) Any 1/2, 3/4, or 1 ton truck, van, suburban, blazer, or bronco may run. It may be a 4X4, but you may only run in 2 wheel drive. (you must remove a drive shaft) 3) No welding on, or plating of, the frame (other than what is stated below). 4) You may box in your front frame rails (from the cradle forward) using metal no thicker than the frame rail itself. You may also run a tube in between the two rails (no bigger than 4 inches in diameter or 4 inch square). NO PLATING OR BOXING IN OF THE FRAME RAIL ANYWHERE ELSE!!!! 5) You may weld your doors and tailgate solid. (on both the outside and inside) When welding the inside of the tailgates, you may use angle iron (but no bigger than 2x2 1/4 thick). 6) You may remove all cab and bed mounts and sinch both down against the frame. DO NOT weld the or bed to the frame. You may add 4 additional mounting bolts, to both the cab and bed, to secure them to the frame. Bolts may be no larger than 1 inch in diameter. Washers no larger than 5x5x1/2. 7) You may weld your bed to the back of your cab.(filler material no thicker than 1/4 inch) 8) You may patch rust holes in sheet metal with sheet metal only. Do not cut the rust out. Weld 2 inches beyond the rust. NO PATCHING OF THE FRAMES! 9) You are allowed up to 8 hood bolts, up to 1 inch in diameter. Six of them may be bolted thru the frame (but not welded to the frame). Hood washers can be no bigger than 5x5x1/2 thick. 10) Hood must open for inspection. 11) Hood must have at least a 12 inch hole cut in it, in case of a fire. 12) After inspection, you may wire your hood down to the bumper in 4 plcs with #9 wire. (4 loops max) 13) Any automotive bumper/brackets may be used. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO THE INSIDE OF YOUR BUMPERS, BUT THE OUTSIDE MUST REMAIN STOCK APPREARING. No aftermarket or homemade bumpers allowed. 14) Weld your bumpers on good! No plating or gussets when doing so. You may weld or bolt (or both) the bumper brackets/towers to the frame. You may weld the bumper brackets & shocks to the bumper. You may weld the shocks to the shock towers. You may collapse the shocks & weld them solid. You may trim the bumper ends, or fold them around & weld them. You may weld the bumper seams, and you may weld the outer chrome skin to the bumper frame itself. 15) If you choose not to use brackets, you may weld your bumper directly to the frame. 16) You may not weld the bumper to the body. 17) A four-sided protective cage is recommended (nothing attached to the frame). You may run a plate on the outside of drivers’ door, but it may not be wider than 6 inches and it may not exceed 6 inches past the door seams. 18) No cages under the hood or in the beds. |