Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/23/11 5:15 p.m.

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.

Auto ADD
Auto ADD Dork
1/23/11 5:17 p.m.

That is very cool.

peter
peter New Reader
1/23/11 5:21 p.m.

You know how they say "you go where you look"? Now you've given them something to look at... :)

Very cool.

Ignorant
Ignorant SuperDork
1/23/11 6:05 p.m.

you should put a big flashing sign on the top of it that reads.. "Hey retard.. Don't run this thing over"

nice work.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon SuperDork
1/23/11 6:26 p.m.

Like they weren't easy to kill before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0IdaGUwYQ

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado SuperDork
1/23/11 6:44 p.m.

I know cones are "meant to be hit", but I always thought the lights would damage the paint..

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/23/11 6:46 p.m.

What you need to do is lay a road flare down in front of it. No one wants to hit a lit flare.

triumph5
triumph5 Dork
1/23/11 6:49 p.m.

concrete block. won't happen more than once.

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/23/11 7:09 p.m.

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.

DaveEstey
DaveEstey Reader
1/23/11 7:20 p.m.

Hmm I usually spend part of my Sunday's running those down...

grafmiata
grafmiata Dork
1/23/11 7:46 p.m.

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.

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado SuperDork
1/23/11 9:50 p.m.
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.

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