David C

Wow, Didn't realize at first there was a 3 year lag. Have the fuel lines been replaced in the interim?

Hi Dan, Sorry but another person on the Locost site beat you to the punch by just a bit and he picked up the frame this afternoon. Thanks, Dave

Locost Super Seven frame. All you have to do is add just about everything! A variant of a plus 4 oriented towards De Dion rear suspension. Great start on your project. 46" wide. From back to front: 31" from back cross member to first, 53" to the second, 84" to first front round tube, 94" to front most round tube. I got it for free from someone who welded it together about 3-5 years ago but then he got a good job and was going to buy one instead. I've not done a thing with it in years and have realized at this rate I'm not going to get to it. Passing on the Free to good home. All my Miata parts are gone except a set of hollow-spoke wheels & tires which can be yours for very moderate cost (Warning - on was painted sort of a pinkish color). Tires are probably pushing 10 years old and should only be used for rolling around & posing for goofy grin sitting in a frame pictures.

No, the tax is paid by the purchaser; the seller does not have to pay a tax.. If the car is sold out of state there is no Washington tax applied. As Luckcy Dawg said, even if one purchased a vehicle in another state and moves here a tax (not a sales tax, another term is used) is applied. It is only if the purchase is recent (I think within a year) and also, I think, if a sales tax wasn't applied in the state of purchase. The main reason for this was people crossing the border to Oregon and purchasing their cars there and bringing it back into Washinton. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax. When I moved here from Oregon 12 years ago, I didn't have to pay the tax on my truck as it had been over a year since I had purchased it. Now back to our regular programming - Good luck with the sale. I might swing by Park Place and drool on your car (I promise to wipe it off).

Don't forget to add our Friendly Washington State Sales Tax which was pushing almost 9% back then. Puts a real damper on people who like to cycle through cars.

Like Elvis Presley's Pantera with the bullet holes.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/2271811931.html

Thought he made a good decision - trees are bad news and a surprisingly small tree can kill you. Just ask the guy who nailed about a 6-7 inch tree with his Chevy PU outside my work, except you can't as he didn't survive. Also did the same thing with a motorcycle & 10 mph curve whose sign I somehow missed. But my obstacles were not trees but rather honey buckets at a small rest stop. Fortunately no one there & missed everything. Type in Dante's View, Death Valley in Google earth and you'll see the sharp right hander shortly before reaching the top.

http://jalopnik.com/5531982/get-ready-to-vauxhall-ass-for-35000 get-ready-to-vauxhall-ass LOL

My favorite by far is the North Rim. It is higher so it is colder and gets more rain so it is more foresty than the South Rim. It is less crowded, views are awesome, more wildlife, and aspens turn colors in the fall. Lodging & camping is far more limited however so if you plan on staying there check for reservations ASAP. Takes a while to get there and it is a dead-end road out to the Rim. If you are lucky enough to be there on a clear night, north of the Rim it continues to climb and, if I remember correctly, it levels out at around 9000 ft. With VERY few light sources around the number and brightness of the stars will knock your socks off. The South Rim also has it's benefits: It is more developed, has more museums and look out points. Aerial tours from the airport, vistor centers, ranger support, dining choices, variety of levels of rooms from basic through the El Tovar Hotel, etc. Being lower at 7000 feet and with way more lights the stars are not as prominent. More traffic, some roads are closed to private vehicles but there are tours. You are kind of reaching the end of the summer monsoon thunderstorm season. But be prepared for a surprise rain in the afternoon even if it looks clear during the day. I've seen it go from clear to thunderstorms and back to clear in just a few hours. Although you can seen the North Rim Lodge point from the South Rim (if you know where to look), the drive is about 200 miles and usually takes 4 hours depending on the amount of tourist traffic. I made it waaay less than that hitting the road pre-dawn on my Honda CBX.

I wonder how they will "kill" him off :smash: and go to Stig #3.

Found on craigslist in Seattle, WA area http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/cto/1928384031.html No affiliation. Just a few drool marks on my shirt.

Screaming Yellow Zonker Screaming Yellow Wankel

Hardtop is removable. I wonder if the doors are also (probably not)

It is pretty low but the initial ones are for touring bikes. If they come out with a sportier version later it might be higher if the mechanicals are up to it and the cams more aggressive to warrant it revving higher. But you'd lose some of that low-end torque. Alaskossie I think your assessment is a good one - thus it would be a good seven motor. I doubt it has a reverse tho, ala Goldwing. I haven't compared ratios with high revving bikes but the juicy amount of torque probably comes from a longer stroke ratio compared to peakier motors, thus lower redline. This is topic already being kicked around in another thread: http://usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4368 Being the past owner of a Honda CBX in-line six & even toyed with the idea of putting one in a seven just for the sound. Video with sound is posted here: http://usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2498 IIRC the Bim six it is only 20 inches wide and guestimating from photos the engine looks about 24 inches from the front of the valve cover to the rear drive output. And about the same height depending on if you kept the stock intake or fabbed something with less height. Already dry-sumped with built-in tank. A fairly tidy package.

I think it would work better for a lefty. The output shaft looks to be about 1/3 of the way over from the left side of the engine with the other 2/3rds right of car centerline balancing out the driver's weight. Footwell shouldn't be less but rather more as the whole shebang would be in front of the firewal and there wouldn't be a bellhousing or tranny intruding on the footwells. I still wonder if it will have a reverse like the Goldwing. That would solve one headach with bike-engined sevens. Somehow I kind of doubt it as the Germans would consider it wussy on a relatively light sport tourer instead of the two-wheeled Winnebago's some drive around. Technically the hardest part would be rationalizing to my wife why I am disassembling a brand new $25 - $30,000 BMW motorcycle. After that, electronics re-engineering, design & fabrication would be a cinch. :jester:

Ah but will it's song at 9 grand give you goose bumps? Loved the sound of my old CBX inline 6 with Kerker header. Being oriented towards a sport touring bike and coming from BMW though the stock sound will likely be muted.

Already has a dry-sump built in with integrated oil tank. drool drool http://www.bmwmoa.org/bike/techhexheadshp2_sport/bmw_confirms_two_new_1600cc_tour_bikes

For rear wheel drive the target does seem to be 40/60. Good weight on the rear wheels for acceleration and weight transfer evens it out for good braking. As far as polar moment goes, my own pet theory backed up by probably no scientific fact or proven rationale goes like this: The nimble feel of a car strongly depends on its resistance to turn in. At the moment of initial turn in, the car is not rotating around its center, it is rotating around the rear tires. The rear tires don't go "out" when you turn in. Well they would if the fronts were on pavement and the rears on ice. I don't think shifting the tranny to the rear axle would detract from the nimble "feel" of the car; I think it would improve. Absolute handling would be a tad lower as aside from handling the lateral acceleration, the tires would also have to rotate the car and if the polar moment were higher this would leave less grip for those lovely g's. Don't forget to consider the tire/wheel sizes in your starting point. It makes a difference if they will be the same size all the way round or staggered with more footprint in the rear. I knew that degree in Biology would come in handy :jester:

As an ex-gummint employee I resemble that remark! There was a guy in our office who spent so much time sitting at his desk (remarkable since he was a lab person) that he brought in a recliner chair to sit in. One of my supervisors, real nice guy, probably spent most of his day playing solitaire. If something went wrong and you needed him he was there but the rest of the time I don't think he had much to do. But I've seen & heard worse in private industry - some of them remarkably industrious and imaginative in ways to not work. Some of them were let go, others kept around in the hopes that such imagination and drive could be refocused. And there was also some of the Hey-may-be-a-scoundrel-but-he's-our-scoundrel syndrome. One guy even ended up on some Judge-Judy type of show where he got well and truly reamed.

http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/vehicles/road/cars/caterham_21.html The Caterham 21, based on the seven.

Low ride height + long snout stretching waaaay out past the front wheels = major scrapes. I have a car that isn't as bad as this and it has a number of chin scrapes already. One horrible time I was in a parking garage under a hotel. Steep ramps followed by flat sections then another steep ramp down to the nest level. I angled it as much as possible in the narrow confines but wasn't a damn thing I could do but scrape all the way to the bottom and then scrape all the way up on the way out. Somtimes I'd also high center scrape it for good measure. There was no way to exit without going to the bottom and back up. Can you imagine being in that car? I'd stop imediately at the first hint of a scrape & have my body guards force everyone out behind me so I could back out. But damn fine lookin car.

I was expecting a live feed from a camera underneath a 7 showing the standard British oil leak. Drip Drip Drip Drip

Dang progressive lenses!

Birdcage Maserati meets random tube generator. There is a lot of weirdness in that chassis. It might also be just me, but it might be possible that someone made off with more than the body. And who needs all four lugnuts on each wheel anyway. It might have actually been driven as that might explain the interesting distortions in the frame and sheet metal.