pethier

I don't think I have ever seen "the stamped steel version" that looks like a MiniLite.

I have seen such additions on many race cars over the years. One such supported a Dymo label alleging that all technical inspectors engage in an unnatural act I will not describe here.

The 818 is outside the scope of this topic. I have an album of of pictures taken by me and by Kathy. The car is not in Lakeland, but near Mora Minnesota. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/albums/72177720329434018/ The 818 is currently registered in Minnesota and the registration receipt has 2026 tabs stapled to it, which implies that there are actual license plates which, when the tabs are affixed, will be good through April 2026.

Interesting coincidence. I bought 7x15 Panasports for my 1979. They went with the car to a buyer on Cape Cod. By the time the car came to the most-recent who has contacted me, the Panasports were gone and only the green wheels remained. The ones I had were well-made and true. (I don't know how they came to be green, but the paint was very good also). Good luck with the sale. These will will be a great choice for someone going 13".

When I shipped wheels I went to tire/wheel shops and got boxes from them. They get wheels in from the makers and install wheels on customer cars, so have boxes. Nowadays the wheels are bigger, though.... BTW, those look like the wheels that came to me on my 1979 Caterham. Painted green. Last I heard, the current car owner still has them.

Shot in the dark: Have you tried Eibach's selection of sprint-car springs? I don't even know if they still do this, as it was a long time ago I bought springs for my Europa.

Nice. I don't have any wall space left at my place.

Fred did not run in the autocross. The car I rode in was also a 420. The red was a little more orange. That car was not in the concour, so...

Oops. Those feats were in my Elise. The Europa did OK in the earlier events.. I think my worst showing was when Hazen convinced me to drive his Sprite. I just checked the Internet, and there is a listing of Wamandee events AND the Afton events. https://waumandeetimetrials.com/results/ Afton Alps was happy to continue, but one person on some government body or other was going to refuse to vote to renew their permit for special events unless motorized events were prohibited. I can't blame Afton Alps for agreeing. They made a fortune off of "Mud Dash" events. That's what got Tom to start looking for a replacement, and he came up with Waumandee. He has worked very hard on this year after year. Of course the reason I searched the Internet to find this was for Dean. He was there for several events over the years. It looks like his best years were 2016 and 2022. I believe Kathy was there at Waumandee this year. She really likes Hazen, and his charismatic presentation of the rules. BTW, Afton Hillclimb was not on a ski hill. As you approach Afton Alps in your car, you are at the general elevation of this part of Minnesota. You drive in past the golf course. then you drive down a steep asphalt road (into the Saint Croix River valley) marked with a sign: "USE LOW GEAR" to discourage incidents with school busses and the like. At the bottom of the hill is a big asphalt lot with ticket kiosks. There are several footbridges across a stream to the chalet. Beyond the chalet there is a large parking area where the hillcllimb participants and spectators would park. The entire lot where the kiosks reside would be used for autocross. You start on a countdown which is heard on radio by the timing folks at the top of the hill. You proceed through an autocross on this flat area between the stream and the ski-lifts through a figure-8, past the kiosks, into a right which feeds a sweeping 180 and then up the hill. There are a few chicanes and one left bend in the road (that my cars never needed a lift for, just a prayer that there were no deer in the road) and up to the line at the top where they stopped your time for the entire course. Amery was different: There was a tight autocross on the apron which was timed separate from the speed-run. Time ended just as you started the straight-line speed-run on a taxiway which was scored by the readings from a radar gun. In later years, there were electronic timers for the autocross part. Course layouts varied from event to event, as did the location of the speed-run finish. Neither event had a return road.

It was the Waumandee hillclimb in Wisconsin. Tom Hazen used to be the EM for several driving events for the Minnesota Austin-Healey Club. I ran several cars in them (in more than one Afton Alps Ski Area hillclimb I had the fastest time in an un-supercharged car, my Europa). I had the fastest autocross time in an automobile at the Amery Airport autocross/speed-run one time (I do not consider shifter-karts "automobiles". When Tom started up the Waumandee hillclimb the insurance folks demanded cars only up to a model year older than both my 2005 Elise and my wife's 1973 Stag. I wound up never running that event, and kinda stopped paying attention to it. Now Dean and Kathy tell me the event accepts any car 20 years old and also they are starting to accept motorcycles. FTD last week was some young guy in a BMW (I assume car). I have not seen a results sheet.

Kathy remembers talking to "Scott".

OK, water rail. Explains the different fill location. Is that common on a Birkin? Is this then a 2000cc Zetec? Looks like the same throttle bodies Dean has also.

I have some pix of the Factory Five Racing 818S, but I have one foot in a track shoe right now.

The engine in the Mora car. What engine is this, 2000cc or maybe something else? Is this a RaceLine head or something else? The location of the coolant cap makes me wonder what this is.

Cathy likes the Factory Five Racing 818S better than the Birkin. She thinks the Birkin is ugly by comparison. She called the 818S a "Fab Five" on the telephone. This does not surprise me since she reported to me also that Dean had a Lotus "Elsie". Then she texted me a picture of the 818S. The picture is from the BAT auction. Dean has apparently run several autocross events around here in various cars. I have found a record of an MR2 at Amery Airport. I have more autocross records to check, but I have to scamper and measure a house door in another city.

Waumandee hillclimb in Wisconsin?

OK, I have trouble following the bread crumbs in this thread. So this is the Birkin in Lakeland, MN? I can check it out this week.

I'm close to Minneapolis. If I knew why youy wanted someone in close to Minneapolis, I have forgotten...

Both the Triumph cars and the Ferguson tractor had versions of the Standard engine. Standard designed the engine for both uses from the beginning.

I think the tractor had a Triumph engine, but I'd have to look that up.

There was a way to do that on my wife's Triumph TR4, but no way was I going to pursue that. The crank for a Seven would have to be really long...

Stock on my 1961 SAAB. In fact, it was not just a starter switch. The cable pulled on an arm that mechanically engaged the pinion gear into the ring gear on the flywheel. That accomplished, the same arm pressed the button on the starter which was the high-current switch. The original cable was messed up, so I replaced it with a piece of clothesline. The car was my first ice-racer, so the glovebox and the door therefor had been removed for weight reduction. This left the steel outline of the bottom of the glovebox doorway sitting there like a towel bar. A handy place to tie up the end of the clothesline. Just reach over and grab the line and yank on it to start the car.

As a now-redundant answer to your question, it didn't ingest anything to cause it to fail. It was the squeeze from an uncontrolled clutch that caused the oil pump to stop the engine. The hope for the winter project is that whatever shrapnel resulted did not yet destroy much in the engine and that a thorough cleaning of each component will suffice. I think a complete disassembly is an opportunity to balance everything.

Ron has the fuel pump out. It's a Walbro 392. He has ordered a new one that apparently the supplier called a Walbro 392 SL. I see online that after a series of mergers the new company will use the TI Automotive name. I hope he gets a good one, online reviews suggest there are a lot of bad ones out there. Reviews tend to suggest that if you put one in and it is quiet, it's a good one. If it starts to scream, you are on borrowed time. Turbo Phil has a surge system that looks good, but of course it does cost a grand.

I put a cigarette lighter directly in the dash of my Seven.