Gyrofli

Spaz, Oh yeh, I asked Hank a few questions already about his car. He didn't try to talk me outta my big motor though. I just love his car. I like cars that look really well built and clean looking. Most of my daily drivers I own are clean looking white vehicles. My truck has the 300 six in it and I really like my big six. I wouldn't mind having a ford 300 in a seven but I don't think ford had high performance in mind with this engine. As for the import and motorcycle engines, I just don't care for the high RPM's these things run. I like the American mucle sound in a car. All I know is I like the way the Seven looks and the fact that most of it is hand built. I just love tinkering with stuff too. So Seven it is for now!

Nice car but every time I look at it I see things that don't look like 80 Grand. For that many low miles, yes the exaust should still look new. It's been abused most probably. Eighty Grand???? It's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It might go in the mid to high twenties in my opinion.

Spaz, The guy is just trying to pump it up to unload it. I don't think it matters round or square but he did say it is 4130 chromoly. The 4130 is a plus and the tig welding doesn't hurt but 4130 was engineered to be welded with a gas welding torch. 4130 is aircraft grade tubing and cost about twice as much to build compaired to cold rolled seamless tube. If the car is basically brand new like he says it might be a good deal. Go see it up close. I just skimed the pictures and the quality of welds is about 80%. Any tig welder with a couple months experience could do better I think. Go look at the old stainless fire extiguishers that hold water in them. The tig weld that is on those fire extiguishers is about 95% in my book. The frame does have a lot of tube work in it though. I bet it's about as strong as I'll ever see on these cars.

11Budlite, I went to the other site LocostUSA like you mentioned. Found good info over there on doing a V8 engined car. I even found some engine comparison stuff on the 4.6L Mod engines. My engine from the deck down is basically the same size as any small ford engine. The heads on these engines are huge though and look like the Himi engines with the huge valve covers. The thing is when I got this motor and transmission I really was not looking for it. A friend of mine is building a 34 Ford truck and had the wrecked mustang as his doner car. My friend found a 460 Ford engine and transmission out of a motor home with 11,000 miles on it so he went that way. I bought the motor and trans because he was basically giving it to me. I said what the heck, I'll put it up for if/when my 1996 300 six goes out in my truck. I got to thinking, my son wants the 1996 truck and it would be a big no no to hand him something with this cobra engine in it for his first vehicle. I would be looking for an SCCA car anyway in a few years so why not start on building a car. I already have two decent SCCA cars now, a 1982 VW Rabbit and a 1991 VW GTi. My 1991 GTi just turned 34,000 original miles so I don't drive them much on the street. I think the last time I had a plate on the GTI it was in mid 2005. I got side tracked for a while with these Geo trackers and trail riding. But as for SCCA they will not let me run my Trackers on their track here even though one is lower than my car. I probably have everything here except a ford rear end to build this Super 7 car. I just have to unload some of these vehicles around here and build one really nice fast one.

Hello, I just found this place and love it already so I signed up. Hope to get some good ideas from some of you. I'm not exactly new to building things and have built a few dune buggies in the distant past. Now I want to try building a street legal car and run it on the track from time to time. Until last week I was kicking and idea around and then found out about these 7 cars. I have some parts laying around and want to throw them together and see what comes of it. For starters I have an engine and auto transmission out of a very low mile(34,000) 1996 Mustang Cobra 4.6L 32 valve. Was going to put the engine in my 1996 F150 but the truck runs great, really too go to start jacking with it. My truck has a ford fuel injected 300 six cylinder engine and transmission with low miles(64,000) too. So, being I'm kind of reluctant to mess with my old truck. I just as soon do something with the Mustang Cobra engine and transmission and leave my truck alone. I hate just having a great running engine and tranny laying around the shop in the way. I like the 7 cars but don'y know of any with a V8 engine in them. My number one concern is will these frames hold up to the engine weight and power? I think it is like 318hp in it's stock form. It is also putting out like 300 Ft. pounds torque. But one good thing is the all aluminum block. Still heavy as all get out though. I thought maybe building a 7 but going with a tad bit thicker gauge tubing. Any ideas (pro or con)about this potential project would greatly be appreciated. Thank You!