Hello everyone

Further to the efforts of enticing any newcomer to racing, fuel shutoffs have often been touted as too difficult for the newcomer to make. Experienced racers know the value of a fuel shutoff, both for safety and ease of pitstops, as well as shortening the amount of time needed to get needle settings. Well, now there is no need for the uninitiated to try and make one. 

Brodak manufacturing has a fuel shutoff kit available under Item# BH-936. The shutoff sells for $24.99 and includes all of the hardware neccessary for installation.

This shutoff would be suitable for all of our "Sport" racing events, and possibly some of the others.

If you wish to find the shutoff kit on the brodak web site, simply navigate to the online catalog, select the "Fuel" button from the catalog menu, then select from the menu "fuel shutoff".

It is nice to see some of the "Special" items peculiar to racing offered again by a Major manufacturer.

Included is a pic of the shutoff kit.

Les

"Required" is a bit on the strong side. 
But I would like to see them universally permitted.

I have made my own shutoffs and my own fuel tanks.

It's a lot easier to make a shutoff than it is to make a fuel tank that functions properly without one.

At SCAR we have the rule that shutoffs are "suggested" for all racing classes for safety purposes.  The proviso being that if it one is used during a race in a class barring them, for other than catastrophic circumstances, the racer is DQ'd.  If nothing else it's peace of mind for the entrant.

don Burke 

I think having a shutoff makes racing much more interesting.  I made crude but effective rubber-band loaded pivoting wire shutoffs which cost about 10 cents for materials.  I agree that making a shutoff, and getting it to work properly every time is not all that simple for the novice.