Track car/windscreen MOT question.

[carlosvalderrama]

Bit of a strange question this, so bear with me...!

I have an MGF which is quite heavily modified for the track, it's caged and stripped and so on. It's occurred to me recently that I may be able to junk the screen, A posts, wiper mech and all the ancillaries.

So the question is, as it's still road legal at the minute, can I pass an MOT with no windscreen at all? I've pored over the regs and there are a number of checks to be made on the screen, but no clear mention of the requirement for one.

I've had mixed advice on both sides, but I know of no-one who has done this or something like it before. Can anyone help?

[carlosvalderrama]

That's another thing I'd not thought of!

Obviously I'd be using my lid in it all the time, but I can't assume an MOT tester would.

Although at the last MOT it wasn't so low it wouldn't get on the rollers, so it never left the garage.

[carlosvalderrama]

Jagracer, yes, by the time I'd be done there would be nothing there but Rollcage tubes roughly where the A pillars were.

Thanks for all the replies, a lot more positive than I was thinking!

[carlosvalderrama]

You're right there, it's going to need some investigation to make sure it's not going to act like there's a hinge in the middle afterwards. The screen itself will provide a significant amount of lateral stiffness to the shell in this area, losing it could make it parralellogram a little. It'll be an opportunity to extend the cage to the front turrets at least, and some cross bracing in this area may help. If I go for it, a couple of perspex uprights will be going on to compensate a little.

As for why, well mass is the main reason, windscreens are very heavy. But I also have a bit of a 'thing' for screenless cars. My dream garage contains an SLR Stirling moss, a euro spec Renault Sport Spyder and one of those concept TT's audi did with a miniscule screen.

Thanks for all the assistance, it'll be a late autumn project as I don't want to ruin the summer by making a mess of it now, so I'll assess the structural impact in the next few months.