R1 Seven

What are you capturing video with??? The recorder, I mean.

Who is Kate?

I am finding that 80 ft-lbs is plenty enough to keep the car moving...where is the flame thrower emoticon to use on Mr. flame suit wearer? :jester:

Mazda, The track with all the concrete is the Shenendoah Circuit. The Jefferson is the little small track That you can't see from the road. Those lap times sound about right. I got no real times over the weekend (we usually don't time DEs anyways...) but my guestimate for lap times without balast in the right seat would be about 1:26-27 range. I am SO ready for slicks and that final drive change... :reddevil:

At one point when I was trying to catch up with that red GT-1 Corvette, there was a big cloud of dust right before the bridge. From a distance it looked like someone could have been off and I backed off a little and left some room out there. When I got closer, nothing was there. People put a tire or two off the road there sometimes and it makes a cloud of dust. There was a car off in turn 1 (at the end of the long straight) about midway through that you can sort of see. My passenger points it out when we go by, but you can see the dust from the start/finish line.

Guess I should have remembered to mention it to you...I will be back up there in the fall probably. One of our listers did show up on Saturday. Dermot (Busa powered Fury) dropped by for a little bit. Nice to meet you Dermot if you are reading this.

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...