Anaximander

Decided to keep this beauty and race it. Thanks for the looks. ANAXIMANDER

TBone, I came to my senses and decided that I could not part with it.

Can't sell it. It took too much work

Thanks John

I do not know how to post a handheld video?

Rear Suspension. As most of you know, M-Spec cars use numerous heim joints for ultimate adjustability.

Corner weighting.

Car on trailer and Aluma Tilt Trailer

Decided that I cannot sell this car.

The car is now ready to race.

Had an almost out of box failure of my oil pressure sensor that will be getting replaced along with my axle c-clips. Hopefully, the Storker will be ready for the cones this coming month! This car has been desperately trying to teach me PATIENCE! I don't know if it is accomplishing all, but some of that task.

Still working on it.

The snap rings may be the culprit. It will be inexpensive to get a pair of OEM Ford c-clips and attempt a reinstall. They initially appeared to lock in but no such luck.

Well, I guess building cars is not for sissies. Was perking along just fine on the dyno today and then took the car for its first couple of miles around the shop that has a circular road. The car ran like the wind. Only problem was that when I got back from the run, the passenger rear axle was leaking some diff fluid from being partially pulled out. Either the circlips that hold the axle into the diff are bad or the axles themselves may be mis-sized? It is back to Scott Minehart shortly to figure out what I hope is the final conundrum. No autox tomorrow <sob>.

I can't wait to see how the car performs with the specific modifications made for autocrossing.

My wife won't even ride in a Stalker except x1 for each one I have owned and that is only around the block

Getting closer to completion.

MV8, I am not sure in the least how my post would have suggested that I think it is OK to not follow through on the sale??? In fact, the winning bidder did in fact state that he/she was planning to pay for the car but was willing to sell the car that was successfully bid on for less that they planned to pay. This is what Gcarbid47 posted as the last comment of the sale: "Hi I purchased while driving, but having second thoughts as 2500 miles from me, fir a bit of a project. If any other bidders are interested let me know. Honoring the sale of course, will accept reasonable even lower offer 😏". I opined that this was a "class act". Please do not misrepresent my words.

MV8, At least the winning bidder is willing to step up to the plate and finish the transaction (class act). Somebody living on the West Coast up near Gig Harbor, WA could likely get a re-purchase price that would allow them to do the necessary fixing up and have a fun car to run around in since there are reportedly only 56 of them in the country.

Henry, I am really concerned how ridiculous the used car market has become for se7vens. Just a couple of days ago, a 2016 Stalker XL sold on BAT for almost $20k more than you could get a brand-new copy of the same car. The person had set a reserve of $33k and ended up selling it for $77k plus the 5% fee that BAT charges. This just does not make any sense to me. It may be that there are a multiplicity of reasons why people are abandoning traditional metrics and I suspect that the pandemic has had some impact on people's psychological outlooks and willingness to throw care to the wind in these trying times? For sellers, this is a terrific time to sell. For buyers, I sure don't think so. Just my $.02 on the matter.

OMG, Less Suave here. I thought I had lost contact with my long lost relative, Suave. He always went for those bright colors where I am choosing to put sedate STOP ME RED (nope, not street legal, hehehe) on my almost completed Stalker AXR. Unlike Suave's caretaker, I don't plan to do any jumping in this new autox car if my caretaker has any sense when he starts pressing the loud pedal in anger.

Bruce, Your points about the lack of upper longitudinal bars supporting the front portion of the roll cage seem reasonable. Last week, I had an HVAC replacement and the fellow that did the work jumped monster trucks for fun over an 8 year period. He pointed out to me that very same concern and said that in the monster truck world, they enacted some different structural requirements because one of their participants died in such a manner as you describe. He also showed me a picture of one of his monster trucks that did end over end flips and crushed the driver's side of the roll bar encased cab. He reported that he had to crawl out of the passenger side of the truck. Of course, our se7ens are not designed to get 15 feet of air over jumps but your observations do not seem to have missed the mark. The one thing we Stalker owners and other se7ens have going for us is the low center of gravity that seemingly would make it very difficult to roll these cars in most circumstances. Again, if one is overly focused on the inherent dangers of the cars we drive, then they likely should drive cars that have 5-star crash and roll-over ratings.