R1 Seven

Hey guys, Just got back from another fun weekend at the track. This time it was with NASA at Summit Point Motorsports Park in WV. Got a little bit of in-car and figured that I would share it. The new final drive and slicks should be on by the next outing. Summit Vid

YES! On my car at least, when on track my feet and legs seem to stay relatively cool. I can also feel the heat coming out of the side vent on my elbow at speed. Conversely, I rode in a couple of Birkins on track and the footwells on both got pretty warm and the air on the outside was nice and cool. FWIW.

Very Nice! Can't wait to see that car in person!

Pretty much all of mine is "modified". :thumbs:

USA Sevens will be represented at the UTCC! Based on my email inbox, there will be at least one member of USA 7s participating in the Challenge in July. WestTexasS2K - Have you heard anything yet? Man, I have to get to work on some car things now... PS - A big "thank you" to the USA 7s folks for the support that you gave! :thumbs:

I would love to claim it...but I don't think my car will be an FTD contenter with the setup that will be on the car for 7-7-7. Cool prize!

Wus! :jester:

Gert, Maury is very particular about things and most anything he own is immauculate. The low milage Birkin is typical for him. I am not sure which P-car he had there, but he has autocrossed a 914 for many years that looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor and is still all original. His current pride and joy is a white Cayman.

Looks like a fun time for sure! Slomove - Seems like I know the original owner of your Birkin. I saw him for the first time this year at a recent autocross when he came over to check out the finished Locost. He started talking about the fellow that bought his car and all the mods he had done to it. Then he mentioned that the guy's name was Gert, and I thought, "I know who that is". I remember seeing that Birkin of yours at local autocross events several years ago. It was a little inspiration for my own project...that eventually got completed some years later.

Just make sure to get the probe type. The IR ones only can read the surface temperature which can drop off quickly and give inaccurate results. That is all I have got to add.

Al - I have tried more than once to get them to come to 7-7-7, but they are just too busy with their own schedule, and it is a long trip from Delaware. That car makes a great conversation piece though. I see you are playing the "numbers game" in trying to fill those club positions...

That gallery will not let you hot link photos if that is where you are trying to get it from. They best you can do is paste in the link to it. Since it is a storefront of sorts, they have protected the content.

Looking good there. What are the specs on the engine?

All of those vintage cars are the real deal. The 250 SWB, the 250 LM, the Dino, and the Birdcage Maserati were all owned by the same person. That person has a massive collection of vintage cars inclucing over 50 Ferraris from what I am told. Bruce - '72 is too new for VSCCA but could run with several vintage groups... The newer cars that you see at this event are special invites of the event organizer to help fill out the grid a little.

My good friend Stefan and his dad are into vintage racing. Over the winter his dad picked up a Series 1 Seven with coventry climax power. We both happend to be at the same track weekend a few weeks back and had a good time documenting on film and video both my Locost and their Series 1. Here are a couple of video clips from that weekend. The first is my friend Stefan, driving the car shot with his helmet cam: Sefan with helmet cam The second is some trackside video that Stefan shot of his dad during one of his sessions: Trackside video And for a little bonus, Stefan and I got the two cars together and he photographed them side by side for comparison. You may want to browse the whole gallery...there are some neat cars in there... Old and New gallery

June 23-24. Come on up...

They have track days at VIR very often. When you get ready to come down, let me know and I can make sure you go with a good club. I will be at Summit Point in June with NASA.

ottocycle...welcome. I dig the Fury also...very cool cars and perfect for BEC. I plan on doing either the trickshifter http://www.trickshifter.com/ or the flatshifter http://www.flatshifter.com/ on my seven at some point. I plan on doing the version with the autoblip downshift. Otherwise I can get a flat shift unit for upshift only in the US cheaper. I am not sure what the difference is between the trickshifter and the flatshifter but they look the same other than the label. A fellow from flatshifter signed on a while back to this forum. If the exchange rate were any better I would already have one...if we could get a group buy with a little bit of a discount, that might help...

What the...???...where is that choo choo smiley when you need it. Besides...I ain't purdy enough to be Secretary and use bad grammar...

Retards...:ack:

I think that "good effort" might be an understatement here... Thanks for the writeup...that is a tale you can pass on for generations to come. :thumbs:

Thanks for the comments. I really am having a great time with the car right now. It is the happiest any "thing" has made me for a long time. The lucky passenger was one of my fellow instructors, Mark. He had been bugging me for a ride and I finally gave in. I genreally like to get folks (especially the students) out for some sessions in my car. But since the locost is brand new, I wanted to get some time on it and prove that is was safe and reliable before strapping someone into the passenger seat. After a few weekends, I guess I have arrived at that point now. Only bad thing is, I am afraid that I will have to turn some folks away...I can't take that weight penalty for every session.

Probably does not help at all... Miatas usually have a good bit of negative camber front and rear and are pretty easy on tires with a stock alignment. I once had a Twin Turbo Toyota Supra that had a funky rear alignment from the factory. I don't remember exactly, but the ballpark was something like -2.5 camber and about 1.5 degrees of toe in. I figured that the tires would wear the insides terribly. Much to my surprise, they basically wore in a cone shape evenly all the way accross.

My car is setup with 5 degrees caster, -2.5 degrees camber, and 0 toe in the front. Initially I went with -1.5 camber in the the front and that was not enough. I may acutally go with -3.0 camber up front at some point but am worried that that will start to affect braking...this stuff is fun. One note to Mazda's comment. Often times people are afraid to run a lot of negative camber because of wearing the inside edges of the tires. From what I have seen, the real culprit is the toe and not so much the camber. Ultmately, yes it will wear more on the inside than the outside, but accelerated and localized wear is usually the problem that gets everyone excited. Having the right toe setings will make a huge difference in the wear.

Yes, it was a GT3. We played for a few laps (that you can't see in the video). Once when I was behind him we had a straight up drag race down the main straight...I was able to keep up almost until I ran out of gear. He was fast enough to pull away just a little bit each lap. Once I get the car sorted a little better and get some tires with more grip under it, it should be a better fight.