Bought a new racecar!
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Bought a new racecar!
Insanity prevails yet again, brought a new racecar home this weekend... Now, to tear it all apart! Well, as soon as we're done sitting in a freezing-cold garage making vroom-vroom noises!
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The thinking is that they're light and small, so they don't hit as hard and don't get hit as hard. Just don't go out and do practice sessions with bigger cars.
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924RacR:
Congrats on your purchase! Two months ago the insanity struck me and I
bought a friends FV (Protoform P2) because I was getting depressed being
out of the game. It looks like a FF, and if so, what type is it? Good luck with
your new toy!
Mark
Congrats on your purchase! Two months ago the insanity struck me and I
bought a friends FV (Protoform P2) because I was getting depressed being
out of the game. It looks like a FF, and if so, what type is it? Good luck with
your new toy!
Mark
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Yes, it's a FF - was run with RCCA, so F/PA may be a class designation there. OTOH, it came from near Philly, so maybe he's just a proud local!
Good guy (seller), actually, races the little things and also GTS Challenge in a Bimmer!
Currently it's a '90 Euroswift as per the sig.
This will become a small closed-wheel D Sports Racer like we've been chatting about in that Radical thread. Believe me, I'll be adding plenty more safety features, particularly some side panels (probably composite) over the tube frame to provide side-impact penetration protection. Plus the fenders to keep wheel-to-wheel from really sucking! Maybe also more side-impact cockpit foam padding, though the room to do so seems limited!
Ironically this Swift will be getting Suzuki power. Gotta come up w/ a new name to avoid calling it a Suzuki Swift!
I got a chance to try out a friends vintage FV car this summer (a Caldwell D13), which of course was one of the things that helped me get moving in this direction. Of course - as for going out with the big boys, it was in an open practice session, all open-wheel cars... and there was everything from F500 to FA out there!!! Yikes!
Good guy (seller), actually, races the little things and also GTS Challenge in a Bimmer!
Currently it's a '90 Euroswift as per the sig.
This will become a small closed-wheel D Sports Racer like we've been chatting about in that Radical thread. Believe me, I'll be adding plenty more safety features, particularly some side panels (probably composite) over the tube frame to provide side-impact penetration protection. Plus the fenders to keep wheel-to-wheel from really sucking! Maybe also more side-impact cockpit foam padding, though the room to do so seems limited!
Ironically this Swift will be getting Suzuki power. Gotta come up w/ a new name to avoid calling it a Suzuki Swift!
I got a chance to try out a friends vintage FV car this summer (a Caldwell D13), which of course was one of the things that helped me get moving in this direction. Of course - as for going out with the big boys, it was in an open practice session, all open-wheel cars... and there was everything from F500 to FA out there!!! Yikes!
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Remember the 2007 SCCA Runoffs?
Hans Peter from KS won the Formula Atlantic class in a Swift, AND won the CSR class in the same Swift with a very nicely engineered body conversion to CSR specs. Pretty impressive performance when you consider the logistics of practicing and qualifying in two classes which required morphing the car between each class.
Hans Peter from KS won the Formula Atlantic class in a Swift, AND won the CSR class in the same Swift with a very nicely engineered body conversion to CSR specs. Pretty impressive performance when you consider the logistics of practicing and qualifying in two classes which required morphing the car between each class.
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Remember the 2007 SCCA Runoffs?
Hans Peter from KS won the Formula Atlantic class in a Swift, AND won the CSR class in the same Swift with a very nicely engineered body conversion to CSR specs. Pretty impressive performance when you consider the logistics of practicing and qualifying in two classes which required morphing the car between each class.
Hans Peter from KS won the Formula Atlantic class in a Swift, AND won the CSR class in the same Swift with a very nicely engineered body conversion to CSR specs. Pretty impressive performance when you consider the logistics of practicing and qualifying in two classes which required morphing the car between each class.
They usually have much better protection as they aren't limited by being a street car based design. The containment of the driver cannot be easily replicated in a street car. NASCAR is just getting to the level now with their true containment seats. Head movement is limited to just forward so offset impacts aren't a worry for HNR folks. With a good seat pour I'd take a small modern formula car over pretty much any tintop.
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Uh, yes he did.
Believe me, I'll be adding plenty more safety features, particularly some side panels (probably composite) over the tube frame to provide side-impact penetration protection. Plus the fenders to keep wheel-to-wheel from really sucking! Maybe also more side-impact cockpit foam padding, though the room to do so seems limited!
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The original lower front wishbones one DB-1s did have a tendency to punch through the sides and beat up driver legs. Pat Prince has an updated (and beefier) setup that helps prevent that.