KnifeySpoony

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I did Los Gatos and it worked out for me. I think the DMV office is less the issue and the BAR inspector is your bigger hurdle. What year/model is the car?

How many cars do you insure with them? Another way of asking would be what is your total of all your premiums with them? The marginal increase for one additional car on a large policy may be insignificant. There's only so many cars you can drive at one time...

Their website specifically says tribute and replica vehicles. I figured a "kit" car like a modern 7 would qualify.

Sounds like a PITA. Would definitely suck to have to pull the rollbar just to take out the boot floor.

I just tried to get a policy with JC Taylor (to save money from my current Hagerty policy) - after a lot of back and forth they told me "we don't do kit cars". Okay... So I'm sticking with Hagerty. I did ask them why the price went up. They said some glitch in their system set all the cars to minimum 3500 annual mileage, but they could adjust it down. Since I only drive my car sub-2000mi a year, the price did go down a little at least.

Maybe I'm just good at puzzles.

Well, with a full cage, you're already ahead of the game on rigidity. I do wonder about fuel tank if a rear-ender though. Either way, the boot floor is not that hard to get out in my experience. After pulling the screws it's about 7 seconds of fiddling to get it out.

I thought the boot floor was intended to provide some structural rigidity, also protection for the fuel tank...

All I can see..

Not the kind of history you're looking for, but that's the car i sat in to make sure i would fit in an S3 before ordering my kit.

That thing is positively massive. Modern cars these days... go figure.

I run with lightspeed or speedsf usually.

The Sadev box is pretty civilized based on my short go in a 420cup. Stop and go traffic coming back from the track to the bay will be a bit of a chore though. The 7 really shines at Sonoma IMO. I do all my days at Sonoma/Laguna. I love Thunderhill but it's a bit of a trek so I haven't been out there with the 7 yet. Also, the 7 will legit bake you on a hot trackday too, so weather out there can be unforgiving in summer. Any track is easy to learn the 7 handling - it's a very communicative and forgiving car. Think of it as a just a really fast Miata. You can really just grab it by the scuff of its neck and throw it around. The lack of mass makes it all easy if you have decent car control instincts.

With a 420cup I expect you'll be out to our area tracks?

Hoosiers on the street?

LOL at needing to see to drive fast. Just go full Days of Thunder and WOT into the fog of war.

Wow you even have invisible glass cleaner for the invisible windshield.

Only if you let it discharge. As you suggested, a kill switch will eliminate these issues. I always turn my killswitch off and never keep my car on the tender (with antigravity). The restart function hopefully will save my ass if I have a brainfart some day and forget to hit the cutoff switch when I park it up.

I think you can kill any battery if let to fully die. However, antigravity lithium batteries have a "restart" protective function if left to discharge too far. Look into it.

To actually answer your question, when I adjusted my brake pedal (interestingly, in the opposite direction than you), I think i used a crows foot wrench on a long series of extensions.

Have you driven the car (ideally in anger) yet? I wouldn't move heaven and earth adjusting things if you haven't driven it yet to see where the brake pedal will actually be during a braking event.

Driving on curbs is part of track driving. If you're not using curbs, you're slow. If it is triggering the inertia switch, I think I would consider bypassing it, or looking into why the switch is triggering (faulty maybe?). I have never had the issue thankfully.

Ah ok without any oil cooling it makes perfect sense. You may be able to get by doing autox with heavier oil, but i think you will definitely need a cooler for track work.

What is the oil cooling setup on that?