trough doctor Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Hello Everyone Name: Derek location: Oshawa Ont Car: 1991 Centaur Seven (1500 lbs without driver) Chassis: steel monocoque Body:One piece fiberglass nose and bonnet,fiberglass fenders and scuttle. Powertrain:12a rotary (new rebuilt engine installed in the spring with new racing beat holley carb and intake) ,4spd, live axle. Future Upgrades: New exhaust (with quieter muffler) The car will be for sale in the spring. New Car: early Caterham left hand drive, pick up in September Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancylad Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Welcome Trough Doctor. Never heard of a Centaur before, where were they produced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian7 Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Hello Everyone Car: 1991 Centaur Seven (1500 lbs without driver) The car will be for sale in the spring. New Car: early Caterham left hand drive, Curious, why the change? as a previous "upgrader" from a seven clone to a Caterham, I wish I'd saved the money, not better-enough for the $$$ difference :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancylad Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Starting to get exciting around here, we are off today to get some bags to strap to the back of "Her madge". Had the new soft top fitted last week and all seems to be good with that, hopefully we wont need to use it to much. Will pick up a set of walkie talkie thingies and some ear plugs...Got to make sure we plan our course based on the small gas tank in the Westie, only 5 galls, not much of a range but gives the chance for lots of stops and posing opertunities..just have to work on trimming S.W.M.B.O luggage requirements down. Will be leaving Nanton on Thursday, not to sure of departure time yet. We are going to take the scenic route, South on H,way 22 then #3 thru the Crowsnest pass to Castlegar, thats about 320 miles. After that just a short hop of another 380 miles or so on #1 thru to Vancouver..:auto::driving: Looking foward to it, and meeting a bunch of like minded 7 heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenron Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 How about a big old fashioned steamer trunk, one with nice varnished wood slats, held on by big leather straps with the license plate relocated on the back side:) Seriously, have a safe drive and we look forward to seeing your solution to adding a bit of luggage capacity. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyG Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Take HWY3 (Grandforks - Osoyoos - Princeton - Hope) and then join the HWY1 to Vancouver. VERY scenic, and fun in the twisties past Princeton. I could do ALL those switchbacks in my old F/SP Nissan Sentra at 90km/h. Should be able to wet your pants in the 7. I'll be leaving Kelowna at about 7:30am on Saturday and taking HWY97C to Merritt, then HWY5 to join HWY1 at Hope. I get better fuel economy doing the Hope-Princeton (yay aerodynamics), but it's 2 hours longer. This will be the longest trip ever in the Lethal Locost, and the longest (by far) since going MegaSquirt. If I don't show up, I'm probably at the side of the road somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancylad Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 The H'way 3 route is the one we are going to take, also joining H'way #1 at Hope. Never know, we might see each other at the side of the road somewhere. longest trip for our car to. Do you carry a two way radio(walkie talkie), we just got some and have them tuned to channel #7. Good luck with the trip, see you in Vancouver, or before.. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyG Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 No two-way. Not like you'd even hear it with the wind noise at speed. Or could even carry a conversation. Haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancylad Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 LOL.. See you in Vancouver. Drive to arrive..:cooldude::driving: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oyagi Posted August 11, 2010 Author Share Posted August 11, 2010 Guys, lets try and keep this thread on topic as a sign up sheet. Directions should be either through PM or a new thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancylad Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Ok Boss..:blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readysetgo Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 So...thats like 15 Canadian cars so far..I know theres more....is it possible their owners just don't have as much internet time as us?.... Keep that Canadian content coming.... Hope the west coast guys have a great meet...drive safe! Anyone in Ontario planning for Bronte Creek Provincial Park, British Car Day Sept 19th. http://www.torontotriumph.com/BCD/ Pics from last year showed about a dozen Sevens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birkin42 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I’ve been a 7 enthusiast for as long as I can remember. A few years ago I started building one my visions of a 7. I have many, though my wife, back account and time is limiting me to one, at least for now. I wanted to keep the original size/proportions of a traditional 7 since I like that feeling of wearing the car rather than sitting in it. I looked at a number of options but settled on a Birkin when a found a deal on a new roller that I couldn’t say no to. I decided I wanted to engineer all the changes I wanted to make so I started by stripping the chassis, measuring it up and modeling it. I then spent a lot of time modeling the changes I wanted to make and analyzing them for strength and stiffness. As you can see from the pictures of my progress to date http://www.flickr.com/photos/10827861@N07/, I have modified an awful lot of the original car so far, and there is still a lot of work to do to get the car done. Progress this past year has been poor to say the least as I have been working stupid hours on large project at work. Hopefully that will taper off in the fall and I can get back to work on the car. For me, designing and building the car is a lot of the fun so I am not panicing to get it on the road, but I can’t wait either. Definitely hoping to attending the British Car Day at Bronte Creek, but it’s on the tail end of my holidays so I don’t know yet whether that will work out. Always a great show to go to. Jack Cambridge, ON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobone Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I will almost certainly be at bronte creek for the festival Hope to meet other 7 guys when I'm there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grichtler Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 (edited) Hi all. My name is Gunter Richtler. I am 67 years old and live in Hamilton Ontario. Together with my friend Andy Hickton we have two Haynes roadsters under construction. Both frames are 95% complete. We are fabrication the suspension components at the moment. My frame although it conforms to Haynes measurements is constructed of 1.5" round tubing for the upper and lower main rails, as well as some verticals and diagonals. Andy's frame follows the Haynes book to the letter. I will be using a BMW 318 as donor. Andy is looking for a Honda S2000, so far without success. Both of us are looking to construct the body including nose cone in aluminum. We have access to a professinal grade english wheel which will hopefully aid in turning out a decent job. I have been fabricating all my life, mainly building aluminum sailboats. I would be happy to share info, technicals, and methods with all members. We will be happy to accept any help we can get. On behalf of Andy Hickton Sincerely Gunter Richtler Edited August 26, 2010 by Grichtler Adding info. See our builds @ grichtler.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyG Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 An English Wheel? Cool! I've only ever used a French Wheel. It looks just like an English Wheel, but you speak a lot of French when you're using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHKflyer52 Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Hi Gunter Richtler, Good to hear that you’re building your car from scratch. Post some photos of the build as a lot of us would enjoy see your creation. SkinnyG is a scratch builder also and has one nice 7 just so you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanG Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Hi all. Both of us are looking to construct the body including nose cone in aluminum. We have access to a professinal grade english wheel which will hopefully aid in turning out a decent job. I have been fabricating all my life, mainly building aluminum sailboats. I would be happy to share info, technicals, and methods with all members. Wow! Some pictures and a writeup when you get to that stage of construction would be great. An aluminum nose on a Se7en looks wonderful. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birkin42 Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Are you taking orders for your aluminum nose? As I work in Ancaster, we should try to hook up some time and compare notes on the cars we are building. I'm guessing we could both benefit from it. BTW, if you want any info or want to take any measurements of an S2K engine and trany, I have one for my car. Sorry, it's not for sale. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grichtler Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Lets take a wait and see on the alu. nose. I am hoping not to run out of skills when I get to that stage. I would love to meet with anyone with cars or building cars. To Birkin42, email me and we will set something up. I am sure Andy will be more then interested in looking and measuring your S2K. You can see some of our build pictures and my reason for building this car on my blog. grichtler.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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