OT: formula vee, next project Options

[Trekkor]

Went Saturday way up into the mountains to recover an old FV racecar with two good engines and lot of extras including a new set of Hoosiers on new rims.

It belongs to a friend of mine who used to race it from the mid 80's to mid 90's.

it's back in Napa and we want to tear it down, rebuild it and take it through SCCA race school next year.

He'll want to sell it after that, buy a 914 and time trial/ax with us kooks (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

FYI: even though a vee makes just 60hp and weighs 1000#'s with the driver, they can put up sub 2:00 lap times at both Sears and Thunderhill.

True momemtum cars.

1200cc single carb, mid-engine, open wheel.
They extract 50% more hp from the stock 40hp motors with careful headwork and flywheel lightening.

And they rev up to 7k rpm's (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

KT

[Lou W]

Back in the early 80's an engineer that I used to work with at Jet Propulsion Lab in the Pasadena area had a Formula Vee too, thought it too was a Lynx, went up to Willowspring to watch him practice. I got a chance to sit in it, you're not kidding about the tight fit in those things, I kinda felt a little clostaphobic in it, I'm not too sure I could ever get over that. I was considering buying one at the time, sure looked like alot of fun. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)