Cone catcher pictures

[athens7]

I have seen some pictures of triangular shaped "cone catchers" on the side of autocrossed Sevens, either on this forum or elsewhere. Could the owners or fabricators of said items post some pictures, especially of the way the catcher is mounted to the chassis?

 

Having completely ripped the right rear wing off my car last weekend...

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/athensse.../1/wtcA8vroVxA

 

I am replacing both wings, both stone shields, & a tail light. I am also having both wings covered in 3M Clearshield. With this investment, I would like to keep these new wings intact for a period of time, so a right side cone catcher appears to be a good idea.

[SkinnyG]

Quick and dirty afterthought engineering:

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/skinnyg/locost2007061.jpg

[Alaskossie]

Athens7,

 

What you really need is a Seven with a right-side-exit exhaust.... but that's not a low-budget solution.

[Boxologist]

i have them on both sides, so it even extends beyond the exhaust tip u can bolt them in to the bottom of the where the seats attach.

[jbanker]

Three 5/16" bolts hold the cone catcher/number plate to the car. Takes about 5 minutes to remove them for normal street driving.

[Boxologist]

Norm Beaver's Caterham has metal strips attached to the bottom of teh front lip of the fender. I didn't notice them a few years ago, but checked for some reason at the LOG concours. I think this was a great solution as its not visible and the fenders seem to have no spider cracks.

[dannykao]

Here is mine - not a catching or deflecting device, but rather make the fender small enough to miss the cones. :jester:

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5054690795_f09f94fdc8_b.jpg

[Mondo]

Funny, that picture makes it look like your grabbing the little wind deflector to hold yourself in place;)

[MHKflyer52]

Here is mine - not a catching or deflecting device, but rather make the fender small enough to miss the cones. :jester:

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5054690795_f09f94fdc8_b.jpg

 

I have the same sort of rear fenders on my 7 as well and have not had an issue with them being torn off by cones and I have bin known to hit a bunch of them from time to time.

Here is a photo that shows the driveside rear fender on my car.

[athens7]

Here are some pictures of the solution my mechanic and I created. It mounts to extended seat frame bolts and weighs 10 lbs.

[RDROCKT]

After fussing around with bent and totalled wings for some time, I decided to make these from thin wall steel tubing. The end have flat stock welded to them and screw into nut serts in the framein hidden locations. I think the bolts are teeny weeny (something like #8). Weight is less than 3# each and negligible effect on ground clearance.

Not a single bent or removed wing ever since

[Boxologist]

Chuck - they announced Seneca as the NEDiv, u planning to try to come east?

[pethier]

My quick solution was a piece of 1/4" aluminum plate.  Held in with all four of the seat-rail bolts.  For future convenience, I ditched the stock metric bolts for SAE hex bolts.  Much easier to deal with than the Phillips-type originals.

 

[pethier]

On 10/10/2010 at 9:46 PM, Boxologist said:

Norm Beaver's Caterham has metal strips attached to the bottom of teh front lip of the fender. I didn't notice them a few years ago, but checked for some reason at the LOG concours. I think this was a great solution as its not visible and the fenders seem to have no spider cracks.

Would not have helped me.  The first cone hit pulled all five of the rivnuts on the front half of the fender out of the aluminum body.  I knew the solution had to be attached to the frame and not depend on the fender itself.

[IamScotticus]

An opportunity for an inverted airfoil for ground effect.

Or at least good discussion.