b'Race Car Parts Warning A Must Read for New Track Car & Road Racers This is a Quick Tuturiol to Help New Racers Understand Tube Chassis Race CarsWe have seen some component failures with people building tube chassis race cars & driving then on public roads for long distances. We do NOT recommend our tube chassis Track-Warriors, Vintage Warriors & Race Warriors to be utilized as a street car.To clarify, any car can be driven on a race course or the street. Running the wifes Lexus on a HPDE track day doesnt make it a race car. At least not a good one.Conversely, driving a GT1 race car on the street, because you got it to pass DOT, does not make it a street car.At least not a good one.You can drive a street car in races & competitive events, but it isnt going to perform as well as a race car. You can drive a race car on the street, as long as you have plates, turn signals, brake lights, etc. that make it pass as legal. But, it isnt going to be as durable as a car built for public roads. Race car parts are designed to as light as possible while being just strong enough to do the job. Strong & light are subjective words to describe race car parts. Strong for racing on paved race tracks is not the same as strong built for the street, or strong built for off-road racing. The same can be said for lightness. What the off-road racing world considers light, is crazy heavy to racers that run on paved courses. Night & day. Street car light & heavy is different than both of those as well. The difference is in performance & durability is huge. Race cars are designed to perform on track & win. If you build your car a little on the heavy side for durability, the next racer will build his lighter & beat you. So, all winning racers build their stuff as light as they can tolerate. Were not referring to overall weight only, although that plays a huge role. Were referring to the lightness of everything that makes up sprung, and more importantly, unsprung weight. Wheels, tires, spindles, control arms, shocks, tie rods, rear ends, suspension links, hubs, brakes, etc. The lighter these components are the quicker the suspension will respondfollow the undulations of the track bettercreate more gripand go faster. Nothing new here. Plus, the overall car needs to be as light as possible. Rookie racers dont know this yet, but the goal of building a race car significantly lighter than the rulesis to add weight (lead or tungsten)as low as possible for a low CGand where its needed front to rear, and left to right, for balanced loading of the tires. All of this is to make the race car perform better in races or competitions on track. No winning race chassis builders build cars to the class weight minimum. They build them lighter & add weight where it helps win handling. The average car guy may not know you cant run lightweight race components & then drive the car 10,000 miles on the street. That is why we now have this in-depth explanation on these pages. We need to clarify the difference between street legal & a true street driven car. It is way too rough & harsh on Americas public roads to drive a race caror a street car with race components. Comparatively speaking, race tracks are night & day smoother than the roads we drive on across the nation. We cant design race car parts to be heavy enough to handle potholes & the rough, bumpy roads of Americaand still be competitive for racing. Those are opposing goals. Many non-racers have suggested we need to design our race car parts heavier. Thats nave about how racing works. What we need to do is make sure no one puts our race car parts on a car they intend to drive on the street more than just a little. A race car would never last 10,000 racing mileson smooth race trackswithout having parts fail. If they did last that long, we built them too heavy.20'