If you were to run off the race track and needed to be towed out of the run off area, where would you have the track tow truck operator put the hook if only the front is accessible, and conversely only if the back is accessible?
That's a good question and is one very good reason that tow hooks should be bolted and welded to the front and rear frame cross members. Other than that there is not a lot to pull on besides the main suspension cradles. Another possibility are the factory tie down holes used for transporting the car. That is, the four holes where the side jacking points are located if they have hooks that will fit in them.
I think the T1 guys (or SCCA guys) may have some input - I think the car needs to have a tow hook built in like all the Bimmers do. Especially with so many people hitting the tracks.
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That's a good question and is one very good reason that tow hooks should be bolted and welded to the front and rear frame cross members.
Which is exactly how most SCCA T1 cars are setup. My car has a tow hook bolted to the front crossmember (bumper) that sticks out of the left front air intake. You can barely see it on the picture below (right under the downward pointing arrow).
Unfortunately, my car is in Norfolk right now getting an engine rebuild (broken timing chain) so I can't run out to the garage and take a picture for you. Also unfortunately, I've had to use that hook twice now.
There is a similar one in the rear, also bolted to the rear crossmember (it sticks out of the muffler vents).
I don't have any good recommendations on how to pull a stock car out of the mud, sand, etc. Fortunately, I haven't had to do that yet.
Barring tow hooks or the other methods mentioned above you could use a couple lengths of 3/8" cable with loops on each end and loop them around the front and rear frame crossmembers. Then use a shackle to connect the two looped ends and leave these loops installed on the car when tracking. This gives you an attachment for a tow strap if necessary.
This method is not necessarily approved by any sanctioning body and i'm not giving any endorsement as to its safety other than to say it's been done before on the C5.
Maybe use something like Subdriver has. Weld a receptacle (threaded insert/nut) to the frame and make a cutout through the front/rear screen/vent areas. Carry an eye bolt with long enough reach to thread into the receptacle. When you need to be towed get the eyebolt, pass it through the vents and thread it in. Unless you are actually in a race this effort does not have to be real quick. In fact, if you could come up with a kit for this you might be able to market it. Even when a tow truck shows up with a flat bed to pick you up when stranded on the street you need someplace "special" for them to hook up and easily put the Vette on the flatbad.
Later ... Larry S.
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This is an old thread, but the results of doing this myself were so rewarding, I wanted to show you all. I like people to look at my car and know that that eye is there for a reason: you don't always get a rollback at the track. So it is real easy to drop the hook in and flat tow back to the paddock, see if youcan avoid the wrecker ride home!
ps, forgot to add that Gof's, Bimmers, AND the Ford GT among others have a tow eye supplied that you simply screw into the bumper when you need it, no fuss no bother. I mean, the Golf, for God's sake! What was Dave thinking when he left that off the Z06?????????????????
I run a rollback flatbed truck partime and we use the factory hole in the frame using T hooks that hook into the frame
They are oblong slots in the frame!! My car on the truck
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I got my tow eyes from Joe Aquilante at Phoenix. If they are good enough for Subdriver, they are good enough for me. ;-)
A much more straightforward install than I thought at first.
And I don't know how easy it would be to access the frame holes with the car deep in the kitty litter. I have seen guys use everything from 3 inch tiedown straps with metal ends to 1-inch nylon rope looped over the front cradle run out through the front holes in the nose.
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