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

[machina]

I had a sport racer which scared the hell out of me. Like a formula car, I could not get past the relative location of my feet to the front of the car. Feet first is not how you want to hit a wall. Pretty sure they never sled tested a FV.

Also, hooking wheels is a very real danger in opened wheel racing, makes a big mess.

They will not allow open wheel cars to run with any of our normal PCA, PBOC, etc events down here. Too big a difference in size of vehicle and the open wheel cars make too many stone chips on all the other guys new porsches and ferraris.