powderbrake Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Report on the Se7ens at Run N Gun 2006 Run n Gun was held Oct 11 to the 14th, in Madison Illinois ( across the river from St. Louis) at Gateway International Raceway, and there were about 40 cars in the event. The cars ran in many classes, based on tires ( Street, Prepared ( sticky tires) or Slicks), as well as on engine size, (Big Block, Small Block, and 4-6 Cylinder) and Naturally Aspirated or Power added ( blown, turbo or nitrous) Most all the cars there were Cobras, Cobra Daytona Coupes, or Se7ens. There were 9 Se7ens there. 3 Ultralites, 4 Super Stalkers, 1 Viking, and a Stalker belonging to Cliff Flath, who was working the event and did not compete. The owners are: Chuck Spera Michigan, Ultralite Loren Edwards Texas Ultralite Jerry Eddens Missouri Ultralte John Meyers Illinois Super Stalker Dennis Brunton Florida Super Stalker Paul Whittle Georgia Super Stalker David Seybold New Mexico Super Stalker Cliff Flath Illinois Stalker Jerry Fink Pennsylvania Viking Gateway has a 1.6 mile road course which uses half of the oval , and is a great track. We got to run between 150 to 180 laps over two days of lapping sessions. The use of transponders in each car gave us our best times for each session. Wednesday the 11th was an added event, where for $100 we attended a nearly 3 hour session on car set up, including suspension design and theory, spring setup, car weighting and all aspects of getting a car to handle correctly, put on by an expert, Morris Clement. After the session, we all got a chance to put our cars on the corner scales, and had Morris help us with corner weight and ride height adjustment. Then we all got to run the road course for several sessions. Thursday was cloudy and cool, and while the Novice and Street classes ran the course for 3 hours, the Prepared and Unlimited classes ran a great autocross which was set up by the local SCCA team. After lunch, the groups switched locations and Novice and Street ran the autocross, while Prep and Unlimited ran the road course. Friday was a little warmer, and sunny, and all 4 groups ran the road course from 8 am to 5 pm. I ran so often I skipped a session or two because I was so tired. James Yates had a new Daytona Coupe with a big block Ford that produced 485 horsepower, and he ran in street class. We were the two fastest cars in street class, and as a result, he and I diced back and forth all day. When he was in front, he could pull me by about a half to one second per lap, but when I was in front I could stay there, based on the distance I could pick up in the twisty parts of the track. That evening we had a great dinner at the track, and watched a video of one of the Cobras that raced up Pikes Peak. There are no safety barriers there, and going off the road means going off the side of the mountain. Saturday was a little warmer and bright sunshine. It was drags all day. You got to run the strip as many times as you wanted to, to establish your best time, and to set a bracket time. They then ran head to head for each class champion, then the quick 8, and then the bracket drags. The quick 8 was the Daytona Coupe, wh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Jerry, great writeup. The image thing is due to my doing. I have stopped messing with the site since a migration to VBulletin is planned. I will have to make this event next year. 180 laps is insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderbrake Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Here is a post from USA maillist by Dennis Brunton.I hope he won't mind my quoting him, you can see he was having a good time. It contains some good video which you may have to paste into your browser, as I don't know how to link it directly. -------- > "Sevenesque cars were the cars to beat with Chuck Spera in his Ultralite > winning the autocross outright, he was also very fast on the road course and > drag strip." > Hey Michael, Chuck and I had a superb competition....he nipped me by 6 hundredths of a second in the AX and I nipped him by a 1/10th or so on the Road course..John Meyers was 5 secs faster than us on the road course, 2 secs slower at the AX I ran two @ 11.9 secs at the drags and John Meyers got down to 11.4 or so...There were only a handfull of cars that broke 12 secs. John ended up ." King of the Hill." It was really nice having the Stalker and WCM guys together...great competition and comraderie. The cars have very different characteristics...but both are FAST !!! Run and Gun is a great competition...I did 239 miles on the track in 3 days. Had a 3 run AX in about 45 minutes..and around 10 runs at the drag strip.... Here are a couple of videos.... Some very stiff competition >http://www.bruntonauto.com/hitters.wmv And a superb roadcourse.... >http://www.bruntonauto.com/snake.wmv Don't be fooled by the lack of engine sound on the banking...speed is over 90 mph ( unless you are John Meyers, then it's over 100 mph !!! )...My speedo is bust... >http://www.bruntonauto.com/lap.wmv these may take a bit to load.... We will be back next year for sure... Chrs, Dennis Brunton -------------------------------------- I had a party for all the Se7ens people and their pit crews on Thursday night at my home. It was great to meet all the Stalker people and have them mix with the Ultralite guys. Both Dennis Brunton (Mr. Stalker) and Brian Anderson (Mr. Ultralite) were there. We all have new friends with different kinds of Se7ens.... the whole reason USA7s was formed. I was not nearly as fast as the SuperStalkers on the drag strip, I turned 12.68 with Street tires. The slicks really make a difference on the road course and the drags, but I could not match their 11.4 and 11.9 even with drag slicks, I'd need a rocket in my trunk.slngsht2006-10-16 11:45:33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al N. Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Jerry- Thanks so much for the great write-up and pix. I agree that this sort of inter-marque camraderie is the whole point behind the fledgling USA7s club. Can't wait to many of you next July. -Al "All for seven, seven for all." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteyrTMP Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Does anyone know the owner of the black 7, number 172? I wonder where they found those fenders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowss7 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 #172 in the last picture is the Viking owned by Jerry Fink. His company's name is Laminar concepts, based in Media, Pa. I competed against him and his son Derek, this past sunday in a regional scca autox. He was testing his newest version. It has over 550hp at the wheels. :eek: I believe he does his own fabrication of his carbon fiber panels and wings. BTW Mazda, he said his new version will have an LS7 crate motor. It's actually 40 pounds lighter than the turbo Mazda motor or so he said. He's a great guy and a two time national champ in SCCA autox. Once in 1972 in a stock Lotus 7. and in 2005 in E MOD in the Viking 7. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 LS7 will bolt right into my car :hurray: Just takes more $$$ :nonod: His estimate is pretty close... alot of guys who put LSx into RX-7s report a slight overall weight loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteyrTMP Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Cool... Anyone have an email or phone for his company? Their website is expired, and don't see them in the phone book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowss7 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Try 610-566-5708 172 E. Knowlton Rd. Media, Pa. 19063 info@laminarauto.com Don't know if the phone or email is current but the address is correct. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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