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Busa; Best wishes from me. Igot lucky several years ago and wish the same good luck to you. john

To get back on the thread. I wish to seek forgiveness for the rant on SPF, not to them but to the seller here. I definitely do not regret buying mine, the suspension is very well thought out and very adjustable, brakes do not get any better than Willwood, the seating is very comfortable (have driven mine about 900 miles in one day, hit a cow and the frame was still square, covered 75 miles of wash board roads with minor problems, and you can almost stay dry in a heavy rain. (needs AC though). The car handles much better than i can drive. There are a few things that have to be changed but the same can be said about all. This is a very nice looking car and if it can be competitive on the track is is well sorted. Good luck with your sale.

I would echo DAVED's statment, would I buy another used one? yes. a new one of anything from superformance? no way!! The s-1 is a well made and well designed for a car that was intended for production. But; even the parts used in it that were "off the shelf" are of undisclosed origin and all are hard to come by and when found over priced. If I ever have a second one it will be a US made stalker. The spf web group is mostly company hipe and a joke. Am i bitter? just slightly.

And this too shall come to pass. And at that point I will be looking up laughing.

It never ceases to amaze me that a person can be a liberal democrat union member and when they finally are able to buy a small piece of land and 3 cows, they suddenly start listening to rough limpbrow, and become a republican. It is entirely possible to be an employer and pay and treat your employes well and fairly and still make a good return on your investment and time, But only too often greed turns a person into something previously held in contempt. If you wish to be an employee, find one of the good employers, do well by them, and leave when you feel that you are being treated unfairly. As they will leave you if you do not treat them fairly. I have been- a business man, management, a union official/worker, a union employer, union worker, and old and retarded, in that order and find that our system is not perfect, but works as well as possible when humans are involved. Personally "I play with the toys in the closet"

do a google search for-- remote oil filter kit or oil filter relocation, and use your engine or filter number to refine the search. there are kits with an adapter in place of your oil filter and use hose and a remote filter mount that can be put where you want it. john

As a not so proud owner of a former superformance 7 orphan (S1) I can sort of fortel the future, and while broke from fabricating unavailable parts will be snikkering at the end. shudda bought either a well documented locost or a us made with us parts storker.

In a world of supply vs demand, the relative value will go down. Price no doubt will come up due to "planned" inflation. The supply of 7s is increasing at a rapid rate, and the availability of seriously "fun" new cars is at an all time high. All of us who now hold current "classic" cars are fixing to leave our kids depreciated assets. No big deal so long as "we" enjoy them while we can. Even now the price of a RX-7 FD is dropping as we speak.

He who has the most polar inertia loses. ave had several meyers with various engines from 40hp to Corvair 250hp turbo, all handle good but the tail weight loses with all else being the same. Now my old mid engine off road car with the 250 corvair would make short work of a seven when set down low. (a d-cambered swing axle will out perform any live axle.) But in the end set up and driver would make the most difference.

I have a fiberglass buggy, ugly as sin but with a 1835 with a vnt 25 turbo and 33x14.5 diggers. it is quick and handles quite well at the speeds a 7 can work at and on a gravel road will 4 wheel drift with ease, actually more fun to drive than the S1 and you get a lot more respect on the freeway. and I am competent with it while out of my element in the S1, a short cut through the ditch is also on the table.

Steve; here is a link to my photobucket pictures---http://s1165.photobucket.com/user/1936reo/library/Superformance%20%20GM%2010%20bolt?sort=3&page=2 would not recommend this route due to the cost. this one started with a camero housing that was cut down. It cost over 4k close to 5k plus what it cost to install (butcher- Jb weld encased brake tee, left off the park calipers, was no way to check fluid, plus the limited slip with this light a car requires the same driving skills as a spool on the street) Best diff solution is synthetic and an egg between foot and accelerator pedal.

As one who is having all sorts of engineering tasks getting a turbo rotary to fit in place of the na, would ask the question-Why? If it is a v8 you want get a stalker that as been designed for it, and make it more civilized like the S1, much easier and safer. If mine didn't already have a rotary and likely being the most clapped out s1 the project would have never been started (and am doubting my sanity now still). Came with a gm 10 bolt, a PO likely shelled the original auto-crossing. No room in the tunnel for trans. cooling system woefully inadequate, air flow problems etc. Fresh sheet or one designed using parts found in USA best choice. But as the old song goes- "love the one your with".

Hellloo youself, yuins done went an gotted youself on da nottagonna buy from leest.

No, you will be more effective with the more up to date image, and the ability to anticipate is far more important driving anywhere than reaction time. smooth and easy wins.

Having had numerous retina detachments, I have one eye with a well spot welded down retina, the vitreous removed, a lens implanted and the membrane behind the lens blown away by a Yagi laser. The end result is no floater and much better contrast in one eye ( colors are almost psychedelic and the white line at night is florescent), while the other is normal 72 year old with floaters and a mild cataract yellowing the lights. Your brain will overcome most floaters and fill in the picture, a related problem is if you look at one point too long your brain will continue to run that view and not change to accomadate the car that just showed up alongside you wic is why you should be constantly shifting your focal point (kinda like refreshing the page). The point is that they can fix almost everything but you need to go see the doc.

Just bought a used 12' aluminum snowmobile trailer for less than 1k it is not tilt but will be easy to convert. will use an outboard tilt pump and a hydraulic cylinder for power tilt. To enclose will fab a aluminum top frame like a boat top that will tilt from front or rear and cover it with boat storage shrink wrap. In Utah trailers under 750lbs empty need no plates or title.

http://www.fordracingparts.com/parts/part_details.asp?PartKeyField=22999 for only 8K you can have this. Looks impressive but ford has a bad habit of letting the public troubleshoot new engines ( ask anyone with a 6.0 diesel that they cannot sell) My self I would go for a lowly Miata engine with the Flying Miata turbo, cheaper and likely more reliable.

Try that. A friend of mine sold a travel trailer for his soon to be exwife for near nothing and gave her the money. these things happen.

Taught my kids to be especially careful of the old junker next to us in the parking lot as it may be all the owner can afford or perhaps belonged to their grand parent who just died, and more valuable to them than our brand new rig. Same goes for wives or girl friends. I too have junk that is my pride and joy.

Was in the local Chairman Mao's junk sale (harbor freight}today and in the trailer section they had some round ones and also some rectangle ones that looked like they would cover the two raised spots on the S1 rear fenders. Might be worth a look, may go back with measurements next time to town. No hurry as my fenders both need repair and the car is down for a heart transplant. John S1 #22

I have little in common with most of the people here, but we all have the cars in common, some of us are not the most polite or smart but we all share a common interest. Please stay! and kick back a bit, life is not meant for worrying. some 65 years ago I got the best advice from a fellow drunk teen " I was not put on this earth to make friends-- that I do by accident" the advice has served me well.

We used to rebuild totals and would never touch a flood car. Floods even fresh water get into places that one would not expect and wait some time before causing misery. It was not ethics that drove this reasoning but protection of our reputation. This still is a "parts car" and hard for me to put a price tag on due to not knowing the Cat parts market but it would top at 16k being generous. Looks like this man either has a car for is collection or is going to shaft someone, blunt statement.

Have both a Miata and a Superformance S1, Both are fun to drive but the S1 will carry more luggage, and is easier on me for long trips, The Miata with Hard top is quieter (not so) and dryer in the rain. At my place the Miata would be the first sold, The S1 is a greater pain in the butt (maintenance) but 1000% more fun. And we here in US have long been lusting after less weight but not at the expense of less power, and would add that the road cars with obscene amounts of power mostly originated on the continent.

Second that motion!! We cannot even find where the original parts were sourced. Mine is gradually becoming a hicost/locost.

In this market; definitely buy! There are some real bargains out there, and you can get all the personal satisfaction you need from the final sorting to your tastes. And as an afterthought- I bought and now have more time in mods and rebuilds than it would have taken to build, these things are labor intensive if you use/abuse them. Last thought; the v6 stalker has plenty of get up and go, and if later you want more ad a turbo to the roots for a real v8 killer.