New timing lights to replace the ones that have been run over too many times. I painted these bright yellow hoping if they could see them they would miss them. I did build an extra just in case.
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Jan. 23, 2011 5:15 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork
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Jan. 23, 2011 5:17 p.m. Auto ADD Dork
That is very cool.
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Jan. 23, 2011 5:21 p.m. peter New Reader
You know how they say "you go where you look"? Now you've given them something to look at... :)
Very cool.
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Jan. 23, 2011 6:05 p.m. Ignorant SuperDork
you should put a big flashing sign on the top of it that reads.. "Hey retard.. Don't run this thing over"
nice work.
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Jan. 23, 2011 6:26 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
Like they weren't easy to kill before.
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Jan. 23, 2011 6:44 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
I know cones are "meant to be hit", but I always thought the lights would damage the paint..
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Jan. 23, 2011 6:46 p.m. Woody SuperDork
What you need to do is lay a road flare down in front of it. No one wants to hit a lit flare.
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Jan. 23, 2011 6:49 p.m. triumph5 Dork
concrete block. won't happen more than once.
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Jan. 23, 2011 7:09 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork
I thought about building them out of structural steel. Being as I would probably be the first person to run them over I figured that wouldn't be the smart plan. I built these to be hit. Rather than having to rebuild the whole thing just the broken part can be replaced.
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Jan. 23, 2011 7:20 p.m. DaveEstey Reader
Hmm I usually spend part of my Sunday's running those down...
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Jan. 23, 2011 7:46 p.m. grafmiata Dork
Just put 2 feet of spike-strips on each side at the finish. Alot of drivers don't really give a E36 M3 if they delay an event because they wiped out the timing system...
They may be a little more concerned if they have to replace a tire or two each run.
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Jan. 23, 2011 9:50 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
Toyman01 wrote:
I thought about building them out of structural steel. Being as I would probably be the first person to run them over I figured that wouldn't be the smart plan. I built these to be hit. Rather than having to rebuild the whole thing just the broken part can be replaced.
Pretty good idea, really. As I should have mentioned in my previous post, that's a nice piece of work.
