Al N.

All I can say is that I/we owe Steve Taylor a beer....or three. Great write up on 7-7-7 and a wide variety of pix, I think the piece takes up 5 full pages of the issue....not to mention the cake on the cover! Thanks again Steve! (Though you do refer to me as an "erstwhile" Superlight owner...I still have the car, you know!) :jester: Actually going to go get my mileage inspection again now...forgot one form last time.

FWIW, I saw a Stalker for sale up at Lime Rock whose interior would have shamed the Caterham demo car I test drove at a dealership that shall go unnamed. I think the guy wanted like $19k all in. Having tried to keep up with Paul W's Stalker in my Superlight down at the Dragon...that's a hell of a buy. Of course, Paul was running DOT slicks while the rest of us were making do with mostly treaded tires....

If Mazda can make an LS1 work, I don't see why a VR6 won't....

We actually have a few Se7en enthusiasts who are younger than you Roman... Here's one: http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1406273792_Se7ens at LRP Vintage - 02.jpg

You haven't met Paul, Dino, and Seth yet...have you? The best part is that I bet some of our owners/forum members in their 60s and 70s can SPANK many of us when it comes to driving. If you can stand hanging around with some of "old" 30, 40, and 50 somethings, there are quite a few of us in the PA/NJ area, stay posted for group drive announcements, etc. BTW, what is the name of your company? I used to have an MTM Stage 2 Avant (as well as a VR6 GTI) and my bro had the g60 Corrado back in the day.

Shoot, I should have loaned him my aeroscreen before shipping it out to Drew!

And of course, there are the Gallatin, the Madison, and the Slough.... Hmm, blatting in the AM, fly fishing in the PM....or vice versa...and some National Parks action. We'll have to add it to the short list of future sites.

Martin...could happen sooner than you think at this rate. Remember when there were like, 100 members? :cheers:

To confirm...Standard cat tank has 2 baffles about 6 - 8 inches in from the sides of the tank. I took out the pump and sender from my old tank and looked around. -Al

regarding the wind wings...I've seen guys put a little rubber bumper on the scuttle to absorb any vibration/imact of the perspex wind wing deal.

Black Hills Route I did a little surfing today and have to say that Sturgis as a host city holds little to no appeal to me. I can't imagine the wear and tear a big bike rally would put on hotels...and yes, I'm generalizing, but one site I visited had tips on how to navigate through town after you've been drinking. Not my idea of a family-friendly destination. That said, Rapid City SD to the South looks like it could have some potential. Rapid City, SD Convention & Visitors Bureau It's only 25 hours from my house! I maybe we make this a mid-week meet...so people can take off a week and use the shoulder weekends to get to and from the meet. ---- Keep in mind that the Ozarks region has also been proposed as a future national scale meet.

My car maybe the fastest, but it's owner certainly isn't!:jester: I have seen some very fast Se7ens on the road over the past two years...Mazda's car and a Stalker driven by Paul W stick out as two of the quicker car/driver combos I've tried to keep up with. And Scott L. certainly isn't slow. And from what the PNW 2007 folks say, Ed Hudson's car is no slouch... Like I said, it would be fun to have a hillclimb/time attack at the next national.

In response to AtomFest...I don't think we even know inside the community whose car has the most performance. That is something we should sort out...and I'd even say that we should get one driver (someone like Keith or John M.) to do a time attack/hillclimb sort of challenge at our next national meet. Unless we have access to an auto-X that has some wide open bits, the cars with a lot of top end won't do very well. That said, even within marques (and models!), everyone's car is so different that it's tough to generalize. For example, Ed Hudson, Scott Lentz, and I all have Caterham Superlights...but we all have different motors. JBH and I have cars that are very similar, but he's running 13" and I'm running 15", so there will be a difference in our final ratios and ultimate top speeds.

Jerry, I agree wholeheartedly that the national meet is primarily for LSIS cars/owners of all sorts. That's what the club was founded around and exists to support. That said, it might be fun to have a joint track day or even a "charge of the light brigade" joint meet some day with Atoms, Se7ens, and Furies in attendance... John M. ran in the 1:37s at the GRM UTCC event at VIR.

I take it there was a variety in normal pace between drivers and that the group may have gotten split up once in a while? Sounds normal, but establishing a protoccol may be wise.

What i like about teh centralized is that one has the option of trailering or driving depending on the circumstances...I could see my family truckster acting as support vehicle for a NE Tour to [iNSERT NAME OF CENTRAL LOCATION HERE]....then me trailering the Seven back.

Mazda has the final policy language, best to send him a PM. The insurance is currently through Hagerty.

Keep it up and don't forget to post pix. Also, keep in mind that it it's an official USA7.org meet, all participants who are not club members need to pay $20 for annual membership...mostly goes to insurance. PM or email Mazda or I if you have questions....we'll also send you some club swag (yes, I know I still owe some folks swag). The point of the club insurance is to protect the event organizers (for example, Gert) from liability should anything happen. When we were organizing 7-7-7, we realized that beyond a certain scale of things, some kind of coverage was necessary and just smart to have. CYA and all that. --- On another note, I wanted to encourage everyone who is in the general vicinity of any meet announced here to take the initiative and meet up with a few of your fellow Se7eners and other "light brigade" fans. Keep in mind that a 5 car blat last June is essentially what set the Club and the 7-7-7 national meet in motion. Brent looks like he is putting together something nice out there in Minnesota, so perhaps some folks from neighboring states can drop by to join he and Drew. And Mike R is going to be at Watkins. Even though we didn't go for any blats together, it was great meeting old friends and making new ones at Lime Rock this past weekend. And I think there is enough interest to make LRP a NE regional meet next year...or we can flip a coin between that and Watkins Vintage

Alas, I am a big fat loser and staying close to home that weekend...:cry: Too many blats and meets, not enough time....

Gert, I'd have to say that I am up for a central meet in 2009. We should look at the Sturgis calendar so we don't have too much overlap with a bike meet. Thanks again for the initiative in setting up PNW 2007!

I said I wouldn't comment on this thread, but I lied. :jester: Randy, thanks for your thoughtful and well-written post. Seriously. Are you guys eligible for Run-and-Gun? That would be a good "neutral ground" to try a few head to heads and settle this all Jets vs. Sharks style...

Having just removed the sender and fuel pump from a caterham injection tank (so I can really dry it out/clean it out before shipping to the buyer), I can say that there is at least one baffle in the tank...on the right side about 7 to 9 inches in from the right tank wall. I will check to see if there are any others...

I actually don't mind going through the gears hard from a stoplight in front of, behind, or next to another car. It's happened once in the Caterham, when I pulled up behind an adult driven S2000 at a light and he lit it up when the light turned green. So I stayed with him and eventually pulled over and alongside. We were at this point not much over the posted and he gave me the nod and we slowed things down. We were well ahead of other traffic by then, with a straight, clear road ahead of us. I don't think this sort of "racing" is all that dangerous or even stupid. That said, tailgating and weaving in and out of traffic/lpassing on double yellows at even legal speeds is stupid and very dangerous. Here's how I feel about "street racing": True outlaw street racing for money or cars/car parts is crazy and and I think increasingly rare. I will say that I bet not that many people are endangered by this behavior beyond the participants and spectators. What some people might consider "racing", the tailgating and weaving and passing is really really dangerous, especially to the people who are just minding their business trying to get to work or wherever.

Rob-The cars near the end of the photo dump are racers, so I didn't count them as they were not up in the Lotus car corral, but rather down in the paddock. I actually didn't talk to any of the racers. I assume the lights thing is for aero reasons...Bart Lami doesn't run lights at all o his track only Caterham.-Al

A boat load of pix now posted in the events section: Se7ens at 2007 Lime Rock Vintage