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I would take them to small claims Court, it would be fun just to make them squirm and I would contact any of the local TV stations as they love this kind of coverage!

Steve, what approximately in terms of inches equates to 1/4 degree toe out at the rear. Assuming your starting point is 1/4 degree total for road courses? Thanks

Having tried several of the various tire treatments I have found only a very little improvement in performance and life and basically believe for our use they are useless. I know the circle track...

Coleman can make new ones for you at a reasonable price. Not worth the chance of failure if an insert fails.

While Pegasus has some of Colemans products anyone can order stuff from them. Their catalog is mostly short track/stock car products there is tons of everyday products listed. Hard to beat their...

One of the big problems with plating and in particular here in the Peoples Republic of California is that there are very few plating operations left and trying to find a competent one that doesn't...

While this method is not for alloy parts, it is a simple non plating, non painted finish that you can apply easily to any steel component and you can do it at home. The material needed can be bought...

These bolts or screws were required in many series for awhile until the rims had the safety beads. Always were a pain as Tod was right in that you had to make sure they were not in the way of the...

Usually the failure was the Hall effect chip which was easily replaced when Radio Shack was around as I believe they only cost $1 or 2. To fail all they had to do was touch anything and of course...

Bet the gearbox used FT gears and maybe some of the shafts and likely had the R&P similar to my March with a 10 bolt 10/31 setup. Since all of the gearboxes in that era including most of the F1 cars...

180-200 HP would be very disappointing to drive in this chassis. Wide wheels, drag from wings and ground effects would take their toll. The other thing to consider is the original motor was a...

Dishwashing detergent and water in a spray bottle works fine.

The machine I have is a Harbor Freight unit that I have had for many years. Think it's similar to Kraus's machine. Mounted everything from bias ply to radials, 13" dia and 15" to 18" wide including...

Very nicely designed conversion, certainly makes life easier than the air units in terms of hardware, bottles, etc. Seems the price is more than fair for all components. Not being completely familiar...

Another track to consider was the one in Vancouver, actually Coquitlam in BC called Westwood. One of the really fast turns looked like a big open field that if you went off wasn't going to be a big...

As my car has an electric pump filling the make up can before it feeding a Hilborn pump on my FI , for safety sake I installed an impact switch in case of an accident. The electric pump has a toggle...

Any idea what the motion ratio is front and rear?

You could always install a spacer to move the joint out which would be far cheaper than new axles.

I can hardly imagine what it would be like racing my old Lotus 51 (early) with it's Renault gearbox and wet sump (swinging pickup) in any of the groups! If you have any of the early ones the...

Having a fairly inclined cramped driving position in my formula car I found my NecksGen to be far better at giving more clearance than my old hans device. One of the big problems with many helmets in...

Is there a date code regarding manufacturing date on Avon radial slicks for F3000 or Indy Lites

While not my cup of tea, this looks like a very well and attractive design, certainly the nicest looking FV I have ever seen.

We ran the FT200 in the RT4 which Hewland said would not handle the 150 lbs more torque but I used the same ring and pinion and everything else in both the Ralt as well as the March although the...

Yes it is other than the oiling systems, fuel injection, ignition, exhaust, flywheel, and of course, pumps. Revs comfortably to 7000 rpm and because of the exhaust, FI, ignition changes makes more...

Yes, I'm the one who created this conversion. Because of the space ahead of the BDA in the RT4 the wheelbase only increased by 4" even though the motor was quite a bit longer. Also because of the...

I remember dropping off a motor at Steve Jennings place and seeing a brand new Lola with a new 1100 cc BD and asked who bought that, Jennings said Tom Foster and at the time I remember Tom as having...

These cars were RT1 tubs with a Cicale single seat 2 ltr Can Am body. Bahner made tubs for Tom and Chuck as needed but they were pretty stout cars and rarely needed much work. After the Can Am series...

Just thought I would toss this out. SCCA 2020 GCR regs on page 79, Section 9.3.26 titled Fuel Cell Specifications has the following parts in the paragraph " Cells must be made to FIA FT-3 or higher...

Oh for the original $3000 price for a BDA kit when they first came out...………...

I have had good results using a heat gun or other source to soften the panel, put it into the position you want then while hot take a cold wet rag to the panel. This seems to lock it into position....

Thanks for your suggestion however I was lucky in that a fellow racer saw my request and actually had the parts I needed. As I found out this part was common in the mid 80's for March but now no one...

Any chance anyonehttps://www.apexspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=88512&stc=1 happens to have an annular clutch piston for a March 87B, looks to be the same as the 87C Indy car or maybe...

Seems to be some misinformation that Marc Bahner is not active anymore. Far from the truth, he is busy fabricating away as usual. If you haven't seen the cars in the process of rebuilding on his...

The $6 plus per gallon difference between av gas and race gas as far as I am concerned more than makes up for any marginal difference in performance if it's real or imaginary!

The best/worst part of this whole deal with the combination of it all, old age and now old cars, is that walking the paddocks and seeing the cars us oldies believe are still current! Sold for a...

Charlie,
Another gearbox expert in England is Peter Smith at pds engineering in West Yorkshire. Their email is pdsracing@btinternet.com. The phone I have is +44 (0) GB 419 4013 72. Peter found a new...

One thing I noticed immediately is the picture has LeGrand wheels on it which by itself is not a big problem but I doubt those would have been the original wheels if it was converted when it was...

Great thing about these cars is the Chevy or Ford V8 motors. You can spend a lot for a real whiz bang motor or you can spend reasonably little depending on the performance level you want and still go...

If it's a Brabham it is probably welded with Nickel Bronze not Silicon Bronze which is much weaker. This mistake is made all the time, Silicon Bronze is best used for header flanges and does not have...

The intake on the #13 car ended up being the FIA approved one for F3 in that era. The neatest car for F3 was the BT28 with the Chevron B15 as well. These little pushrod motors turned 9500 rpm with 3...

I'd leave it with the MAE. With the newer technologies it should be a reasonably reliable package and with the 100 or so lbs of torque developed it can't break anything. Probably is a single Weber...

I have used the Pertronix modules for the last 10 years with very little problems on my March BMW V12. I made the magnet plate for my purpose to their specs and have used the basic Ignitor module as...

When the cam and pawls were mostly used nearly every weekend you replaced sections of the diff, chiclets one weekend, outer the next, inner the next. It was not too expensive then but now it's nuts....

Steve, thanks, do recall what settings you used at RA?

Steve,
The only tire now available is from Avon,radials, fronts are the same size as my F3000 car as are the rears but are 13" rims instead of 15". We have been running 2 degrees f, and 1 degree...

Does anyone know the camber settings for a 97 Lola Lights car F & R?

Call SWAYAWAY in S. California, they make axles and have CV joints for VW and a number of others for the off road racers. Just noticed they no longer have CV joints.

As a follow up, just bought 100 LL Av gas yesterday. $3.99/gal sure as hell beats race gas!

Av gas works fine in most race engines, since it has a fair amount of lead you might not want to use it in some of the electric FI systems because of oxygen sensors fouling but anything else is fine....

My feeling is that a guy should be happy to drive his car to the best of his abilities regardless of the technical updates he may or may not add to it. The realism that comes in is when you accept...