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After talking to TW Mouldings (who made my body) the T 492 and other Lolas of the period did not have any splash guards at all in the front.

After tacking the one side alloy guard to the tub (lots of pop rivit holes there already) it looks stupid with the 'wings' on the tub, and impossible to get a good water seal across the top, so I am making the sheet guards to bond to the body underside, glass the lot and make them part of the body.
They cover the front edge of the tub by 75mm and come across to the rack centre line.
This way the top is fully water sealed and should keep 90% of the rian out on a 60 second hillclimb run.

How you lot race for lap after lap in the rain I dont know, it must come in over the car interior from all directions.

Bunch of wimps? Probably!

I'm more concerned about water in the electrics, a failed run and spending hours drying/cleaning up than damp underpants (from the rain).

Why suffer when you can prevent it, esp when I don't have to worry about originality etc .

Yes, I agree you cannot keep it all out, but I want to keep most of it away/deflected from areas where the car might stop and ruin the run.
Contary to popular thinking Hillclimbers are not bothered about a wet ars@ as much any other racer, just that the run is critical, and a loss of time through a miss fire or interruption in a 45 second run will drop you to the bottom of the class or worse.

The 'rooster tail' of water that comes off the fronts will simply drop loads onto the car, and if I can keep most of it off so much the better.
Still, the fibre glassing is now all done!
Had a good go at it last night and it sure goes off quick in this heat.

The 'sports racers' that run on the hills all have efforts to 'seal' the cockpit from the fronts. If such efforts were futile then they would not do it.

We will see.
Thank you though for adding to the discussion. I feel somewhat alone on this site because of the freek car it is, but I recon most of you are petrol heads at heart.