Originally Posted by
Dave Silcock
Perhaps in your previous career as a civil servant you could dictate to people when a discussion was over but those rules don't apply here. I think that what this discussion hinges on is the integrity of the participants. And in regards to this matter, and given your seeming inability to make meaningful responses to matters raised, I'll make it easy for you. Did you or did you not, on the 1st of Oct 2012 at 11.32am, send me an E mail thanking me for a report I had forwarded you from M C Fraser Ltd., Consulting Engineer Wanaka ? And in that same E mail did you not CC to Brian and Julian at motorsport. org nz? A simple yes or no would be best.
It may interest you to know, seeing you seek to cast doubt on this report, as it is only an opinion in your view,I have checked with an engineer who graduated with a masters degree from Canterbury University, and he informs me that in matters of strength analysis of steel there is no room for opinion and any discrepancy will be the result of faulty calculations.
If you are so confident that your approved roll cages meet your own standards, perhaps instead of phoning the world for support, you could pick some of the designs from the year book at random and subject them to the same Finite Element Analysis [FEA] that my structure was.
But, apart from establishing what actually happened in this sorry saga, it does not matter as I have decided I will waste no more of my life on an activity administered by an organization so bereft of integrity and common sense.
So to those of you who have expressed a desire to see my car in action, I'm sorry but you will not hear the 7000rpm howl of the most highly developed and powerful XK engine in the world or hear the three 55mm Webers gobbling up the air it comes toward you, or see the three eared knock off's spinning against the polished Dunlop wheels.
But what the hell, someone in Wellington thinks a bit of procedure is more important than that!