NeoBear

This is the most complete summary of what it is like to own a seven I have seen, even with that I still love mine.

You want to be careful with this buddy. For instance, I had an 89 Honda civic while I was in Italy in the Air force. When I considered shipping it, I Was told I was going to have to spend north of 10grand to even start to get the car shipped. there where all kinds of modifications that would have to be done to the car, things like crash and support items and even modifying the seat belts with different belt clips, it was pretty gnarly. Don't even get me started on the emissions changes they mentioned. As I understand it Kit cars can get around this in most cases as long as they are not fully built cause then they are not considered a car? Essentially make sure you do your research before you commit to anything buddy.

… lol @theDreamer I thought my Birkin was comfortable but next to yours mine looks poverty spec haha. On the plus side foot space is not an issue I do have a wide-body chassis. If I’m on the freeway I can kinda set my left foot at rest between the petals.

Yes, My Birkin is insulated the whole footwell area and transmission tunnel. In fact, I assumed this was something the car was not going to come with I was pleasantly surprised and thankful. Again, it is only on really hot days and only when the car is not moving. Really only the footwell area and I think it is worse on the passenger's side which makes sense the way the exhaust is routed. The wind pressure thing is not really my ears. It is physically the way the Air hits the left side of your face once you hit a certain speed, it turns into a constant pulsing, if I lean over like half a foot to the right it almost goes away. I should also mention I only notice it when I am trundling along on the freeway. Again, this is only an issue in extremes, think of those days when it is so hot that no matter how fast you go the wind hitting your skin is just not pleasant, on the flip side on colder days the wind will force all kinds of bodily fluid out of my nose. My car does have those little side windshield guards, but they are mostly to stop rocks they don't seem to do much to stop the wind. I haven't really thought about trying doors, I don't like to drive with my left arm tucked in the car, but I am sure they wouldn't make things worse. The "things don't fit" bit is really hard to explain, when I was building the car, and something just didn't seem like it would work Tom would always tell me "It will fit/go/work" and he was always right. you have to understand this was more a reflection of me not knowing Jack about cars. An example would be in order to put the diff in the car you have to take out both diff plugs that didn't make sense to me, but it worked silly stuff like that.

I can't assume where you are from, but I would like to share my pain points at 46 years old living in California. The cars themselves are very physical that's a given but something that I could not have accounted for was the heat. I should mention this is only in the summer as it gets well above 100 here, anything above 90 degrees and after about 10 mins my lower half will be quite uncomfortable if the car is at standstill. If I hop on the freeway and hit 60mph+ and sustain that for more than 5-10 mins I can start to get a headache due to wind pressure, but I have heard different windscreens can help with that. In stop go traffic it is not a big deal. Other than that, the only other thing I would warn about is sometimes things just done fit, and you may have to "gently massage things." Having said that I love the car and drive it every opportunity I get, hell even drove it to work today.

No yeah in order to replace the studs I had to take the adapter off and it was on snug in fact after I get the fender repaired, I may replace the bolts for the adaptor as well, they looked rough to me. So, when I see people running spacers, I sometimes hear people say how unsafe that is and I was wondering do people feel the same about wheel adaptors. I think Fastg was right and that two studs/nuts just failed. I also think it was likely my fault for not doing like my monthly or bi-monthly check. Just wanted to see if others had had any bad experience running wheel adaptors.

Oh, to be clear I 100% blame myself for this. It had been months since I last checked the wheels for Torque. I am convinced either the nuts backed off or the studs/nuts just failed.

Morning everyone, So, I recently had a moment. I was on my way home on the freeway doing about 70ish mph when my rear passenger wheel decided to yeet itself off into the unknown. It all happened so fast I couldn't believe it. Damaged fender, completely gutted wheel studs and a broken taillight. Honestly, I feel like I got off lucky could have been a lot worse. When I showed a friend of mine the photo of the aftermath, as soon as he saw my wheel adaptor he got triggered and basically said that it is the most unsafe thing ever. It is not something I am looking to change but I just wanted to see what everyone's general opinion is I feel like the idea behind the adaptor is both to clear the calipers and get the standard Seven bolt pattern.

Damn what a legend! I have a 2021 I am still trying to get registered that has a little over 400miles on it. My hope is that in 10 years I am not one of the guys who is like "I only have 2000k on it!" I am hoping to have many, many miles. Any tips for reaching that milestone?

I can tell you trying to get everything lined up on the 3 piece was pretty miserable, there is an order you want to do it in. The rest of it was pretty simple though, only had to make a slight modification to the resonator cover/guard.

You know I have the same motor except one of my Pullys is in a different location. I told Tom I wanted the 2.5 a dry sump and left the rest up to him when I bilt the car. I haven't put mine on a dyno but I wouldn't have thought they are making anywhere near that without FI. Pretty awesome buddy!

You can use Velcro to keep whatever from hitting the paint buddy (the soft side) that’s what I did lol.

Very similar setup to what John posted

I don't have a photo on me, but I will take one when I get home. Does your car have one of those spots in the back bottom of the chassis where you would mount the spare tire? I had a friend at work fab me of like this T shaped bracket to mount mine and also the plate light I needed to pass brake light. Velcro could definitely work I actually use it on my rear license plate to keep if from touching the car.

I remember the second seven I test drove was a 620s can’t remember the dealers name (kemper?) but it was up north here in CA. I only remember two things. One it was insane like insane speed, two shifting with my left made me super nervous. But holy shit the speed! congrats buddy.