fmorser

car is sold, thank you for your interest.

Selling my Honda CBR1000F powered Locost as I need to make room in the garage for other projects. I broke her in, and broke her too, at the NJMP annual events years ago with the superb group that attends every year. Eventually sorted out the issues and ran it at Summit Point in WV for several years at their HPDE gatherings. Shenandoah was the best track since the car is low power, but light weight and liked the twists and turns and short straights. Is located in Potomac MD. It has: Right hand drive to offset the engine being mostly on the left 1995 CBR1000F engine 2 piece driveshaft Hoosier slicks 22x8x13 on Aero 7" wide wheels from Summit Racing Is now mostly enclosed with only drivers seat open, includes a custom tonneau that covers the driver's side 3 link rear suspension 7.5 fox body live axle 3 gallon fuel tank (lasts ~ 25 minutes on the track) extra set of street tires 185/60r13 on 6x13 steel Bassett wheels comes with a trailer always stored in garage above freezing never crashed, but a little spattered from track debris and never polished, it is a track car I built it from scratch, welded the "book" chassis following the Ron Champion design with the errors corrected per the sevenesque.com website. Never registered it, was for the track only helping me learn high performance driving. Asking $8,000. If interested please contact Fred Morser - email: fmorser@gmail.com. I can provide YouTube links of me being followed/passing others at Summit Point. I never had an onboard camera though. Thanks for looking.

Randy, Are you still looking for a BEC Locost 7? I have a Honda CBR100f powered track car that will be up for sale very soon. Best, Fred

After I became so discouraged with rules and regulations and you can't do this and can't do that w/r/t adding a shed/garage to free up space in my current garage and then on top of it I had to do a land survey to get necessary permits and that would cost over $2,000 I built a rack out of 2x8 lumber with 4x4 posts on wheels too and then bought a 2,500 lb rated pallet jack and that solved my limited space issue. Very low ceilings and so had to measure and measure again, but it all fits. Opened up a lot of space for my next car build, and I got a new compound sliding mitre saw out of it too. Been away so long I hardly knew the place.......from the forum that is and saw this thread so added my 2 cents. Pallet jack takes about 50 pumps......good for the abs.......to get the car up high enough and everything rolls around so I can customize my set up. Car only weighs 1,050 lbs. (bike engine for those who remember) so my jack/rack requirements were less than many of you I suspect. Anyway that was my solution.

Fred here. Thanks for asking Graham. She's all better now. Can't make the party this year due to a conflict. Have fun.

Awe shucks Tom. And w/r/t the grammeters issue, I resorted to an over abundance of malleable logarithmic casings and panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator. But of course you already knew that.

So the Champion book was out of print when I built mine, or was priced at hundreds of dollars and offered as used by various people which defeated the locost mantra so I got a copy from the Library of Congress, took notes and returned it. Building the frame was the easy part and took about a year. All the thinking and decisions that go into the various bits that need attaching to it consumes much more time........with several life interruptions.....more like 4 years in my case.

I built a book frame from scratch and run it at track days and autocrosses here in the DC area. Champion’s book dimensions have lots of errors, but you probably know that. The free plans from http://sevenesque.com/plans are accurate (not sure if those are the plans you refer to). The forum link at locostusa.com is a great source for info. The only wood model I built before hand was for the front trapezoid part as it required compound angles. If I knew then what I know now, I strongly recommend you document what parts you bought, and their own specifics because after many years when you need to change or add, or fix, etc. it helps to source the dang thing. Good luck, have fun.

My thanks too Mike and Tom. Sorry I couldn't be there to go round and round on Sunday. So it turns out I won't have to put a bullet through the engine after all. Looked at it this morning and a carburetor synchronization screw had vibrated loose and fell off so it was killing cylinder 1. A 10 cent part.........dang it. Anyway it's running right as rain now, just a day late. There's always next year and I will bring spare screws.......and yes go ahead and say it..........I had a screw loose.... hardy har har!!!

Hi Tom, Please add my name to the list of drivers. Looking forward to it and seeing everyone again. Cheers, Fred

A couple thoughts. Different bike engines have varying final output drive ratios. Try this link http://www.gearingcommander.com/ for the final drive of your engine, or if you are looking for possibilities it offers a wide range of bikes. I use a CBR1000f and the final drive is fairly high at 1.785 so it needs low-ish diff gears to get higher top end or lower highway speed revs. Here's another link http://www.crawlpedia.com/rpm_gear_calculator.htm that you can put your tire size, transmission ratio (final drive ratio), mph speed and ring and pinion ratio to determine approximate rpms. I use a Ford 7.5 live axle and just swapped out 3.73 for 3.08 gears and according to the calculations should get close to 120mph before I run out of engine rpms......assuming the horsepower can push through the wind. The stock 3.73 gears got to about 100mph before I hit the 10,500 rpm redline. I don't know about used ring and pinion gears for alfas, but lots exist on ebay for the Ford and I got my set for $75 I think. hope that helps.

All seven variants? Even a scratch-build Locost 7 variant? Don't want the bums rush if I overstep..........

I'm all over it Tom.......... I have already set up my jigs for the prefabulated amulite baseplate and the panandermic semi-boliod stator slots......... the semi-boliod requirement was the real kicker ...........may have to bust out the big grinder for that Ta!

all done..... so what's the likelihood of the other track for next year????? I'm thinking about ring and pinion ratios so I'm not at red line in top gear so much of the time.........just red line in a couple of other gears. cheers. Fred

Hi Steve Just saw your note. I'm happy to send the pics. Not at that computer yet but will be in a couple hours. Stand by Fred