how to pack a chute?

[vega34]

how do you guys pack a chute,just got my dragster today and i'm wanting to open the chute to make sure its dry and stuff,,,do you guys put powders on your chutes,,,thanks steve

[fla1976]

No personal experience, but here are a couple websites with some tips.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2099483_pack-race-car-parachute.html

http://www.answerbag.com/articles/How-to-Pack-a-Race-Car-Parachute/0a29345d-db8f-f3e2-24c2-8e20882b5aaa

[zipper06]

Hehe, :) very carefully, and always do it yourself, or let someone do it that you have lot's of confidence in. Most people don't pull them at most tracks, unles it's a national event, when rules apply. Most of the tracks around me run 1/8 mile and usually have plenty of stopping room.

Zip.

[shawnp]

We pull ours out every winter, air it out and just pack it back up. No powders or anything special.

[slowmotion]

Just got my car last year never had it out but...
http://www.dragstuff.com/techarticles/parachutes.html

With photos
http://hre.com/discus/messages/2/Parachute_instructions-9345.pdf

[vega34]

thanks guys,,pictures worth a thousand words!!LOL!!

i'm hoping i don't have to pull mine also,but with it being new to me,i think it would be best to make sure its not wet or tore and for that matter if theres one there!!LOL!!,,steve

[3dracing]

Yeah, had a friend that pulled his one night and all that came out was red rags.

[bh747]

how do you guys pack a chute,just got my dragster today and i'm wanting to open the chute to make sure its dry and stuff,,,do you guys put powders on your chutes,,,thanks steve
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Here are a couple of links. One with a video and the other is a .pdf for the trailer.
Happy New Year.

http://63.134.212.121/safety/safety.aspx?page=parachute_video

http://www.simpsonraceproducts.com/pdf/safety_chutes_packing_instructions.pdf

[TheYellaBrick]

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Here are a couple of links. One with a video and the other is a .pdf for the trailer.
Happy New Year.

http://63.134.212.121/safety/safety.aspx?page=parachute_video

http://www.simpsonraceproducts.com/pdf/safety_chutes_packing_instructions.pdf

EXCELLENT INFO !! As I'll be running with dual laundry this info is great !

[slowmotion]

how do you guys pack a chute,just got my dragster today and i'm wanting to open the chute to make sure its dry and stuff,,,do you guys put powders on your chutes,,,thanks steve
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Here are a couple of links. One with a video and the other is a .pdf for the trailer.
Happy New Year.

http://63.134.212.121/safety/safety.aspx?page=parachute_video

http://www.simpsonraceproducts.com/pdf/safety_chutes_packing_instructions.pdf

Thanks bh I had watched that video before but couldn't remember where I saw it. It's in my favs now.

A guy that used to race with us had his wife pack his chute. My dad told him "Don't make her mad, you'll pull your chute and it'll come out bouncing on the track wrapped in a big ball of duct tape."

[russ67chevelle]

lol!!!on previous post before mine

i have to add why stop a car going 150 mph or faster(which is required at my local nhra track)without a chute,if not popping one the brakes will eat faster

[TopspeedLowet]

You haven't said what the brand was. There are a few basic types of launchers too. If your chute has a air or spring launcher it will not have a pilot chute just if stroud a D bag. It is as simple as it seems. First you have to stretch the chords out and un tangle the lines when you have them un tangled I then grab each chord where it is sewn in the chute and pull tight grabing each of the three the same way and pulling them together like you are stacking them they will be folded in half by doing this and all in one hand. I then fold them again and walk to the car with the chute end and the D bag. Then you put the chute in the bag reverse order that you want it to deploy in a S pattern filling the D bag as you go. When you get to the lines you continue to insert them in the bag in an S pattern filling the entire bag side to side. Then you fold the flap on the D bad and load in the Chute bag on the car. If you have a spring launcher you have to coil up the spring and put in the pin to hold it untill you get the bag loaded and pinned. The cable will come from one side of the other and that matters. I use a shoe lace and loop it on the looped string that the cable goes in to hold the chute in the bag. I insert the D bag in the bag that is fixed on the car and string the lace thru each eyelet begining with the opposite the looped one usualy top or bottom if the cable comes from the side. Then I cinch the two leves together and then do the one that the cable is closest to third then the one opposite the cable last. Pull on the shoe lace to align the eyelets then insert the cable to retain then pull out the shoe lace. BAM you have the Stroud chute loaded. It aint rocket science but you need to be comfortable doing this so you use it when you need it. I have to use mine every pass to stop before the fence with my Beretta

[sxfreak2002]

pull it at a the 1/8 maybe a little further out . you need to know what to expect before you all the sudden need it and your worried what it going to feel like if its a stroud then it doesnt hit hard at all.but it is your best friend and you will be a better driver knowing what it can and will do for you.and if your in a hard tail car and have any bumps at the finish line then you will save yourself a few skid marks. and not the ones on the track.and remember if it does start skipping more brakes will not help lol.i may have the record for distance between skips.not a good record to have.

[TheYellaBrick]

In open road racing if you are tossing the laundry, you are on your way OFF the road. Chutes are used to try to straighten the car out so you have a chance at keeping it 'under chaotic control and upright'. High speed tire failure, loss of adhesion on the rear tires in a curve, catastrophic drive train failure, and loss of courage all can lead to sudden deployment of aforesaid nylon sheeting. Deployment is activated in milliseconds while you are steering and at 150 plus. There are several instances where tossin' it was ALL that saved the tossee from a very topsy turvy ride.

[promod138]

HUH?

[TopspeedLowet]

Im with promod138, what question was that answering?

[TheYellaBrick]

Just indirectly stating how critical the condition of and how properly packed a chute, is.
Depending on the meaning of 'is', is, of course. :lol:

[TopspeedLowet]

That Bill Clinton reference has no place in parachute packing! But thanks for the clarification.

[promod138]

DD Mrs. Daisy, You lost me again. To answer the question, go to the track, see how its done and ask if you can help pack the chute,not knowing how hard a hit your chute will make when it flowers never have your foot near the brake pedal until after you pull it. After you have done it a couple times it will be very easy.

[suicidebomb]

I really can't imagine a better place for a Bill Clinton reference, than in a thread, about chute packing. He practically revolutionized chute packing, and the cigar industry, simultaneously. He'll go down in history as one of the most famous chute packers, since the beginning of this great nation. You can bet he knows how hard to hit the chute, and he knows not to use the brakes until after the chute flowers. I definately would not walk around any racetrack, and ask a bunch of racers, if you can pack their chute!!!!! You'll end up sideways with somebody, FOR SHORE!!

[fla1976]

Suicidebomb, you crack me up. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Berlinetta79]

Long story short we bought a 6 sec chevy monza to race it here in estonia but we havent had airopened chutes before. In other cars we used a chute with pilot that went in chute box, line was dropped and pilot pulled the chute...
Now we have a double chute-combo in the Monza and trying to recover info how to pack the chutes. No pilots, just a bag for canopy+lines and the chutebox that pushes it out. So, how do I pack the chutes in order to be opened in the right way?

http://nagi.ee/photos/jamez74/17690489/in-set/302769/
http://album.tehnokraat.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2420&g2_serialNumber=2
http://album.tehnokraat.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2426&g2_serialNumber=2


Nobody??

[oldandtired]

pull it at a the 1/8 maybe a little further out . you need to know what to expect before you all the sudden need it and your worried what it going to feel like if its a stroud then it doesnt hit hard at all.but it is your best friend and you will be a better driver knowing what it can and will do for you.and if your in a hard tail car and have any bumps at the finish line then you will save yourself a few skid marks. and not the ones on the track.and remember if it does start skipping more brakes will not help lol.i may have the record for distance between skips.not a good record to have.
I don't know about you, but I always drive hard thru the chute deployment.

[Berlinetta79]

Long story short we bought a 6 sec chevy monza to race it here in estonia but we havent had airopened chutes before. In other cars we used a chute with pilot that went in chute box, line was dropped and pilot pulled the chute...
Now we have a double chute-combo in the Monza and trying to recover info how to pack the chutes. No pilots, just a bag for canopy+lines and the chutebox that pushes it out. So, how do I pack the chutes in order to be opened in the right way?

Any links?