Kirkey's New Road Race Containment Seat!

We first caught wind of Kirkey's latest Road Race seat last summer when they sent us a prototype to play around with. Judging by Kirkey's perfectionist attitude towards designing, I figured we wouldn't actually see the seat for a while. However, I just got tracking info from Kirkey showing they are on the way!

Check it out:



Sorry for the poor photo - once it arrives (hopefully first thing next week) I'll get some better images made.

We're excited about this seat for a couple reasons. For starters, the seat has a much smaller profile then the first generation Full Containment seats. Better yet, the seat itself is only $540! (sans cover, of course)

I've hurriedly placed the seat on the site for ordering.

See details here

JUST IN - SPA Fire Systems

We recently looked into carrying the SPA line of AFFF fire systems. SPA Technique has been manufacturing a nice line of FIA approved fire systems for several years. Our first shipment arrived earlier this morning:



See the Complete Line here

We've really been eyeing the entry level steel-bottled Multi-Flow system (pictured above). $325 gets you a system big enough for 2 chambers in the car (for example, ports in the cockpit AND the engine bay), and 6 nozzles to spread the love!

AIM SmartyCam Update

Just finished hanging out with Chad & Cameron from AIM USA. One of the longer conversations was regarding the SmartyCam.

Good news first: If all goes well, we should be seeing these guys by the end of the month. Hopefully there's more accuracy in that statement then we normally see in this industry!

More good news: The version we're due to receive is the 3rd version of this camera with several improvements:

• Externally mounted GPS antenna is now optional. Prior versions relied on an internal antenna that proved to loose its signal in some environments (it is sitting INSIDE the car after all!)


• Improved video - the quality of the video recording has always been on the low side in the eyes of AIM USA. Their complaints have been heard, and the chipset supposedly greatly improved.


• True Data-logging abilities - the data and video will both be recorded separately and importable into AIM's Race Studio software. Before this update, the data recorded into the unit could only be embedded in the video feed and not viewable for outside analysis.

I'm sure there are other updates that are less significant. AIM is proving itself to be a company that is continually tinkering with and bettering its product. Now that I think about it, the only bad news is the wait - I NEED to start playing with one of these right now!