[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

There's another bumper problem with the kit chassis while we're on the subject. In the short and wide configuration, you end up with a gap in either two or four corners of the frame. (See attached image) This leaves you with a ~1.5" diagonal on the bumper perimeter that cannot be protected by a bumper. Which means it's impossible to make the short and wide kit frame legal unless you build it 35.5" wide, or know to ignore the instructions, build it 36.5" wide and cut the outside bars long. Or other complicated things that rookies aren't going to know about.

I've posed this to the GDC, and I'm desperately hoping that they rule it legal to wrap the bumpers around this corner or extend them an extra bit to cover it. If they decide that teams will just have to modify the frames to make it possible to legally mount bumpers... Then I'm going to be somewhat annoyed with them and the prospect of helping 50% of the rookies at our regional get their bumpers legal.

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it already allowed to extend the soft parts of the bumpers? See <R08-J> and illustrated in figures 8-2 and 8-4.