Hudson Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Yet another vanity post, all about ME: Winnie: 1979 Porsche 911 Targa: Brown. Her baby. Not a show car, but decent looking, fun and fast, and keeps us in the Porsche Club - they're nice people and we love going to the meetings. She has a very personal attachment to her 'Winnie'. . If you are up for a trip to Charlotte this weekend, Winnie would enjoy meeting a few other Porsches http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=359071 and it makes more sense with these two threads (just go to the last pages unless you have a lot of time) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=260064 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=341921 Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmanz6 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 My name is Jason, I work in Industrial Equipment sales and "stuff". I have worked on many cars/trucks over the years and read the article in GRM last year and became interested in building my own Locost. That car is underway now with a McSorley +442 frame, Ford 2.3L engine, Ranger transmission, T-bird IRS, etc. I have the frame about 1/3 finished and am not in a huge hurry to finish the car. I also have a 1972 Datsun 240z that is in the process of being helped along. I've been a member at the locostusa website for about 8 months or so. I stumbled across this site and find it very helpful as well. I hope to be able to make some usefull posts here as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al N. Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Jason-Welcome aboard! While all the other marque-specific forums and listservs are great (especially for specific info on a particular kind of car), I find the USA7s site to be a a great hub for all types of owners and enthusisasts... We have a few Locost owners/builders here, including a few Bike engined cars. Very interested in what you do to the Duratec... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 My name is Jason, I work in Industrial Equipment sales and "stuff". I have worked on many cars/trucks over the years and read the article in GRM last year and became interested in building my own Locost. That car is underway now with a McSorley +442 frame, Ford 2.3L engine, Ranger transmission, T-bird IRS, etc. I have the frame about 1/3 finished and am not in a huge hurry to finish the car. I also have a 1972 Datsun 240z that is in the process of being helped along. I've been a member at the locostusa website for about 8 months or so. I stumbled across this site and find it very helpful as well. I hope to be able to make some usefull posts here as well. Welcome! Do you have some pics??? Put some pics in the members rides section! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sporqster Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Nice family you have there! How do you and your wife like the megasquirt setup? Rob Works great - starts and runs great right from the turn of the key - unlike the CIS that was a bit cranky in cold weather (like we get much of that). But to my the Megasquirt (Tony Bitz kit) is more intuitive and easier to troubleshoot than the CIS - which was basically voodoo Carrie & me. -Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EburgE Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Elise owner in Maryland. Age 41. I blame the Elise for getting me into this Seven thing. Already met a handful of folks from the board, and everyone has been helpful. Ordered a Seven from Caterham this week. She'll be a weekend road car, not primarily for tracking. Hope to keep this car for a number of years. Still undecided on a couple of features. Will post again when I have a build date. Plan to assemble the car myself in my garage, shooting for 4th of July 2008. Not much of a mechanic, but I have been studying the manual. Wish me luck. Sevens rock. Cheers! --Harold :flag: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 Elise owner in Maryland. Age 41. I blame the Elise for getting me into this Seven thing. Already met a handful of folks from the board, and everyone has been helpful. Ordered a Seven from Caterham this week. She'll be a weekend road car, not primarily for tracking. Hope to keep this car for a number of years. Still undecided on a couple of features. Will post again when I have a build date. Plan to assemble the car myself in my garage, shooting for 4th of July 2008. Not much of a mechanic, but I have been studying the manual. Wish me luck. Sevens rock. Cheers! --Harold :flag: :hurray::hurray: So you coming to snowshoe? :bigears: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breezy7 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Elise owner in Maryland. Age 41. I blame the Elise for getting me into this Seven thing. Already met a handful of folks from the board, and everyone has been helpful. Ordered a Seven from Caterham this week. She'll be a weekend road car, not primarily for tracking. Hope to keep this car for a number of years. Still undecided on a couple of features. Will post again when I have a build date. Plan to assemble the car myself in my garage, shooting for 4th of July 2008. Not much of a mechanic, but I have been studying the manual. Wish me luck. Sevens rock. Cheers! --Harold :flag: Harold : If you haven't found it already check out www.thecaterhamproject.com, best thing I found showing a Caterham build. It got me through the winter of 2005-2006 waiting for my Caterham, and was helpful a few times during the build(spacers under the steering rack that are not mentioned in the assembly guide,set up of the parking brake adjuster, using saw horses to build on etc). I met the guy at Road America this past July, we had the only 2 Caterhams there and ended up parking within 100 feet of each other. We shared a few stories and I stole an idea he has for mounting motorcycle mirrors on his car. The Caterham kit is top notch, I was very impressed with the quality and completeness of the kit. Assembly is pretty straight forward, I did mine with basic tools, only needed to borrow a 200ft./lb torque wrench and an inch and five eights socket for the nuts that hold the half shafts to the uprights. Breezy 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherik Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Breezy 7, where are you located? There's a few of us in IL / WI. BTW nice site! Cherik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breezy7 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Cherik, am located in Breese, IL, about 50 miles east of St. Louis,MO. Not the best sporstcar country,lots of flat straight roads with lovely corn vistas. There are a couple guys in St. Louis that have Caterhams, one is about 10 years old with 1700cc Ford and the other is a brand new SV with 220hp and 6 speed. I have a 200hp SVT Zetec with 5 speed. Needed you at Elkhart Lake for the vintage race, only 2 Caterhams and very few Lotus cars in general. Our car is pictured on partypics.com. Did the touring of Road America on Sunday of the SVRA evand they take pictures of everyone driving. Punch in Elkart for code to get to the pictures, I think we are on page 8 for SVRA Sunday Touring, the other Caterham that weekend toured on Friday but I haven't looked to see if he is pictured. Where are you located? I saw from the Frapper map a Caterham in Burlington,WI, we stayed there on the way to Road America. Breezy 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EburgE Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Thanks for the link. Had not found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherik Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Sounds like some nice cars! I'm in Sussex (WI). It's about an hour South from Elkhart. Did not have the time earlier this year to join. I think there are other track events later this year organized by CAROC (Alfa Romeo club) or the Lakeshore club. Cherik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esheffield Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 This seems like a good place for a first post. I'm Eddie, in Christiansburg VA. I'm currently working on a Brunton Stalker V6 which I hope to have on the road in a couple of months. I'm planning for it to be a daily driver with the 3.4L Camaro V6. My personal tweak to the "stock" is that I'm planning to run it with the Megasquirt EFI driving a TBI from a 4.3L V6. A lot of the S-10 guys like running that TBI on the 3.4L. Eventually I may switch it to MPFI if I can work out the intake. And just a few days ago (7/3 I think) I saw a 7 (green / yellow) going through an intersection in Blacksburg - anybody on here know who that might be? First time I've seen one around here in the 5 years I've been here. Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevet Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Welcome aboard, Eddie :hurray: Post some pics, of the Midget too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rv-4mike Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I'm Back! I had a computer crash a couple of months ago and lost all email right after USA7s moved to a new server. Everyone had to log in and change passwords. Mine got lost in the email/computer crash. Had nothing to post so have just monitored from time to time as a guest. Anyway, finally got around to getting my password back. Still dont have a 7 yet, but my Ultralight kit is coming along in the WCM shop. Hope to scrape together the remaining $ to get it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 RV, Brian is starting my ultralite and hope to have it in November/December so I can register it Jan 1st as SB100. Have you thought about getting it registered? Hope to see you next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 I'm Back! I had a computer crash a couple of months ago and lost all email right after USA7s moved to a new server. Everyone had to log in and change passwords. Mine got lost in the email/computer crash. Had nothing to post so have just monitored from time to time as a guest. Anyway, finally got around to getting my password back. Still dont have a 7 yet, but my Ultralight kit is coming along in the WCM shop. Hope to scrape together the remaining $ to get it soon. Glad we didn't loose ya :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flibbie Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 OK I try to be brief. Name is Jim Dorsey. After a visit to SEA with my uncle Sam I made some motors to help some guys when they went to the moon then ran a rocket for the Star Wars program for USAF. While working for my Uncle I learned to fly then started teaching flying then aerobatics. Then for 19 years I flew airshows. Old age caught me so I worked at a nursery for the last 12 years. Just retired. My 27 yo son Jeff bought an Elise and while scanning the Elise Talk site saw a mention of 7-7-7. We had just returned from ToTD (Had to go get a Jack-in-the-Box). I signed up for the event and we met a lot of really nice people. Just placed an order for a Super Stalker for 10-14 delivery (my 62nd BD present to myself). My son and I hope to assemble it over the winter and cruise together next summer. Just today I picked up my S/C engine. I can't wait!!! Really enjoy this site. Thanks AL and Mazda. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rv-4mike Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Mondo, Quick answer is I hope to register in Arizona. I PM'd you with details. Been sending Brian money in spurts since december. Last I heard from him my chassis was in powdercoat. Should be back at his place by now. Probably time to send him more money to keep progressing. Although everyone tells me Brian is always slower than planned. Not a problem for me since I still have an airplane in the garage space the Ultralite will go in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDrye Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 OK I try to be brief. Name is Jim Dorsey. After a visit to SEA with my uncle Sam I made some motors to help some guys when they went to the moon then ran a rocket for the Star Wars program for USAF. While working for my Uncle I learned to fly then started teaching flying then aerobatics. Then for 19 years I flew airshows. Old age caught me so I worked at a nursery for the last 12 years. Just retired. My 27 yo son Jeff bought an Elise and while scanning the Elise Talk site saw a mention of 7-7-7. We had just returned from ToTD (Had to go get a Jack-in-the-Box). I signed up for the event and we met a lot of really nice people. Just placed an order for a Super Stalker for 10-14 delivery (my 62nd BD present to myself). My son and I hope to assemble it over the winter and cruise together next summer. Just today I picked up my S/C engine. I can't wait!!! Really enjoy this site. Thanks AL and Mazda. Jim We stopped by a Jack-in-the-Box and filled 4 coolers up. Now my freezer is full of tacos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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