what ppl use for for battery sticker on bonnet

[ronie]

i have a track day coming up and they require me to put a blue triangle on the bonnet to show where the battery is. as i use my car as a everyday car aswell i dont really want a blue triangle sticker on my bonnet, and i dont want to keep on buying the blue triangle every time a do a track day.

if someone has a better way than buying a sticker each time, please let me know

[UTESRULE]

blue electrical tape

[bush_basha]

i was thinking of a blue triangle as a magnet

[spank]

as far as i was aware the blue triangle was only if the battery was in a different location to factory placement

[markone2]

i have a track day coming up and they require me to put a blue triangle on the bonnet to show where the battery is. as i use my car as a everyday car aswell i dont really want a blue triangle sticker on my bonnet, and i dont want to keep on buying the blue triangle every time a do a track day.

if someone has a better way than buying a sticker each time, please let me know

Good enough for an ANDRA Car .Its good enough for track officials imo,..of course if they have no idea where a Commodore battery is located , one might well ask there qualifications for the job...if the sticker is up front its bloody obvious ..if its on the boot then the battery has been reloacted..Not hard :doh: imho

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee4/markone2LRC/694d5303cac234e983c717aff85a52da.jpg

[bush_basha]

as far as i was aware the blue triangle was only if the battery was in a different location to factory placement

I'm to believe the triangle is for where the battery isolator is, i.e a switch

[DaveHAT]

i have a track day coming up and they require me to put a blue triangle on the bonnet to show where the battery is. as i use my car as a everyday car aswell i dont really want a blue triangle sticker on my bonnet, and i dont want to keep on buying the blue triangle every time a do a track day.

if someone has a better way than buying a sticker each time, please let me know

Simple:

Buy a proper blue battery triangle sticker
Buy some magnetic P plates from supercheap.
Stick battery sticker onto P plate.
Cut P plate down to same size as triangle


VOILA Reusable/removable battery triangle.

That's what I've done on my hillclimb car and it works a treat. Take it on and off as many time as you like.

Blue electrical tape works well too.

[Smitty]

i have a track day coming up and they require me to put a blue triangle on the bonnet to show where the battery is. as i use my car as a everyday car aswell i dont really want a blue triangle sticker on my bonnet, and i dont want to keep on buying the blue triangle every time a do a track day.

if someone has a better way than buying a sticker each time, please let me know

2 ways I have seen at the track (other than blue triangle ...which are cheap enuff to put on/rip off)

the blue electrical tape (or race tape) trick as mentioned above
or a cut down magnetic P plate ....sprayed with blue vinyl paint

as yes you need it ,even if the battery is in the factory position!

[spank]

ive been doing club type racing/sprints for 10 years, the only time ive had to fit the triangle was on a VL with the battery in the boot and the isolator was in the rear garnish socovered both, the o.p doesnt state what type of track day its tho, i was assuming a club sprint type day, if its other than what i do, or maybe because its a club type event with a majority of one make of car they dont need it. the other problem is the blue triangle canbe there to indicate where the battery isolator switch is regardles of where the actuall battery is ! good luck! :confused:

[Smitty]

ive been doing club type racing/sprints for 10 years, the only time ive had to fit the triangle was on a VL with the battery in the boot and the isolator was in the rear garnish socovered both, the o.p doesnt state what type of track day its tho, i was assuming a club sprint type day, if its other than what i do, or maybe because its a club type event with a majority of one make of car they dont need it. the other problem is the blue triangle canbe there to indicate where the battery isolator switch is regardles of where the actuall battery is ! good luck! :confused:

CAMS regs (used by all the clubs and their scrutineers over the many years I have been doing sprints and speed events) state the a blue triangle is used
externally on all vehicles to 'indicate location of the battery or isolation switch"

http://www.camsmanual.com.au/pdf/03_speed/SP01_SpeedEvents_Standing_Regs_Q210.pdf

[spank]

maybe we are special, cams quite often come to our events to make sure verything is done according to their regs and the day is run properly and apart from race cars they dont ask us to have it, we had a track day today and no road registered cars had one that i noticed, i know its in the regs but they simply dont worry about it for some reason, hopefully ronie will let us know how went and where he went and what type of event he participated in, if i were him id take whatever he decided to fit even if he doesnt want it on the car and at scrutineering fit it if asked

[duke5700]

like everyone else has said half cut P-plate painted with vinyl paint.

[ronie]

I ended up not even putting anything on, and they didn't ask for it at scrutineering. But I bought along a roll of blue electrical tape just in case.
The track day was at sandown with the hsvowners club where they ran sprints in the morning and the towards the end multi speed event. Not a bad track, but I think it’s definitely time for a brake upgrade as my brakes were smoking buy the end of the last session.

All the help appreciated

[Smitty]

I ended up not even putting anything on, and they didn't ask for it at scrutineering. But I bought along a roll of blue electrical tape just in case.
The track day was at sandown with the hsvowners club where they ran sprints in the morning and the towards the end multi speed event. Not a bad track, but I think it’s definitely time for a brake upgrade as my brakes were smoking buy the end of the last session.

All the help appreciated

HSVOC must be getting slack ( I note Chris Kelly has now left their motorsport role) as the last Sprint day I did with them (earlier this year)
there were at least 2 cars that I saw initially knocked back at Scrutineering for not having the blue triangle

hmmm......

[spank]

I ended up not even putting anything on, and they didn't ask for it at scrutineering. But I bought along a roll of blue electrical tape just in case.
The track day was at sandown with the hsvowners club where they ran sprints in the morning and the towards the end multi speed event. Not a bad track, but I think it’s definitely time for a brake upgrade as my brakes were smoking buy the end of the last session.

All the help appreciated

Sandown where i was, were you in the black VY? i think you were in our group, small world! i was in my VS MANTA , you had more straight line speed than me (im running with the stock 185kw 5.0) but i was making up time under brakes where i was catching a lot of people but then only to loose them on the straights! now that the brakes and suspension and diff ratio is sorted its time for some H.P !
for what its worth, Chris Kelly has done a fantastic job over the years running our clubs motorsport and he does not scrutineer every car personally, like i have said, ive been to other clubs events jaguar and xr club days and with cams people there and still no one asked for the blue triangle, so i dont know what "hmmmmm" was ment to mean, as for yesterday a guy from the jag club scrutineered my car and didnt mention the sticker either.

[ronie]

yeah that was me in the black vy ss, that was my second track day. i found out i need to do a lot more stuff than power mods.