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They can write whatever they want in the GCR, it doesn’t mean anything.

The reality is that the legal process has successfully been used to get rules implemented that were not otherwise going...

Welcome to the forum.

I'm not sure if you have seen it yet, but you should definitely familiarize yourself with the GCR. Read it as often as you can.

https://www.scca.com/pages/cars-and-rules...

I'm with Joel. Simple wire rope and the cheap swaging tool from Home Depot will make a very nice, light floor support. I think a very real benefit of the wire rope solution is that it allows the...

When you have front row seats to the **** show, you watch.

The SCCA's choice to promote this scam artist remains inexplicable. The problem isn't just the failure to pay prize money. I am aware of...

Optimistically, I would put the number of F4 specific spectators at zero. Total, there seemed to be a handful of spectators but they were watching most/all of the races.

I'm not sure who told you...

I think this reference is to draining the water from any sort of air accumulator tank. That wasn't something we worried about too much back in the FB days.


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There is likely some minimum speed that these cars would need to achieve to make this true, i.e. faster than a FV, but they are clearly way in front of that. They are definitely faster than I thought...

Ah, thank you for the correction. I just remembered seeing Lisa and some guy I didn't recognize. I assumed it was him after the fact.



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That's easy to say, but it was our awesome president of SCCA who showed up with Walker to threaten FRP. You can also see the SCCA's "leadership" in just how messed up this whole situation is.


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Alternately, its success doesn't help either. All it does is further dilute the pool of racers. It is a zero sum game.

Either way, whether I want F4 to succeed or not will make no difference.
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I think that is most people's problem with this. Ultimately, our member dollars are supporting this. Yes, I know they have Pirelli and Honda money, but if/when they bail we will all be on the hook. ...

If you need it soon, try a plumbing supply store. I think it is usually sold in 5 pound bricks. Otherwise, buy some off of EBay. That was the cheapest way that we found.


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Pepper, you are missed this weekend.

To be fair, the HPD Twitter posted two hours ago that all the crash tests have been passed and production can start now.

The rest of it sounds like the disaster that everyone saw coming.

I suspect that the rule is meant to prevent people running the front-to-rear systems that F1 was running a little while ago. If your system operates too closely to those, I suspect that you will run...

If you want to have a linkage that connects the bellcranks, I am sure that you will be able to. I believe that most cars have an anti-roll bar of some kind.

Yes, there is a restriction in the...

Remember that in general autocross is a different design problem than road racing.

5. We made our pans out of 1.5" plate, but there are things inside of that. If you are dry sumped, you have...

I always like a good rules discussion and I used to be involved in the class. I'll take a shot at it.

1. Only if the engine originally came with it. I can't imagine how you would make it work...

Great story. I'm always impressed by Jeff Braun.

189 mph is crazy.

Yes, they were super condescending to club racing. The wind tunnel pictures that I saw of their testing were in the...

At the runoffs a few years ago, I heard a competitor from another class say, "I wonder what is going to happen when a competitor starts trying really hard in that class?"

Now we know.

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I think that is something that everyone should wait and see on. It really remains to be seen how long these F4 tubs are going to last.

Every time that I think that that SCCA's "leadership" couldn't get any more clueless, they surprise me.

I just can't get over this email. Someone really thought it was a good idea.

It's only been a week? I hope that anyone considering running in the SCCA's series is paying attention to how non-responsive the SCCA is being. Why would anyone trust them to promote anything?

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I got this email as well. Someone was actually paid to produce this bit of marketing genius.

I assume that Mr. White's resume was just a list of ****ty 1980's infomercials that he wrote for.

Like I said earlier, making people race on what they qualify on has been tried in plenty of classes. It doesn't work, it costs more money, and it hits the low budget guys the hardest. If you have a...

This is such a non-issue that it isn't worth worrying about. I can't imagine how it saves money. People swapping their engines before the race are doing it because they don't understand these...

Yes, it seems that FRP may have announced before everything was entirely in place and it bit them.

There is absolutely a reasonable section of the SCCA leadership that will openly talk about...

I am aware of that. SCCA claims to see the problem as well. Their solution is something that will cost 28% more per weekend.



I'm less sure. Dan has a proven product that he gets to run...

More information here:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120857

includes plans for 17 and 18 and a quote from Clark about how they want to re-establish SCCA as a major...

I would assume so as well. I read on here that there are actual rules in place in Europe regarding cost containment and how much a team can charge for a season. Can anyone actually confirm that? ...

I suspect it is also going to turn off privateer efforts.

It's hard for me to believe that the cost of this car is not subsidized in some way. The pictures look like the formula lites car with...

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Why is the press conference at COTA?

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Exactly. Looking over the SCCA pro website, it appears that all of the series that are currently...

I think that is exactly what they have planned. Formula lites with some updates and a Honda motor. I think there is already a Honda in there.

It is supposed to be FIA sanctioned, which means cost...

Australia appears to be running a Mygale with a 1.6L Ford ecoboost.

I thought that the Formula Lites car was an old F3 Lola tub from the Russell school?

How would you like to be one of the 4 or so people who dropped $120k on an FL and now you are probably going...

I have heard this before, but I don't really understand what the FIA recognition will mean, what value will be added to the racers, and why it matters.

For better or worse, I am sure you are...

Formula Race Promotions

The guys who put on the F2000 championship series, F1600, and Atlantic

We already know that the Road to Indy cars and the FRP cars will be different as the Andersen cars will have the MZR and the FRP cars will have the Ecoboost engine. So, no cross over there.

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It's the same pants-****ting level of incompetence that got them to where they are now.

While its kind of cute that the SCCA thinks they are still relevant enough to run something like this, I'm...

Yes.

You have an airflow problem. Giving the water less time in the radiators may not help. We ran one water radiator and one oil cooler in the Citation would sometimes tape one or both of...

I think this is much more accurate. The younger generation is not less interested in cars or less willing to work on their own cars. There are thousands of college students who participate in...

The resulting fire from the oil departing the block and spraying on the hot headers is usually what makes the biggest mess.

This thread sums up the engine install information pretty well:

http://apexspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59100

There are some plugs up top that you can crack while you crank the engine...

For several years Tim Kautz has run a chrome FF that looks amazing. He has not been given any trouble and has been on the cover of sportscar and won the "best looking car" award at the runoffs.
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Paintball tanks are DOT approved, I wouldn't worry about them too much. I have seen them take some ridiculously hard impacts (think completely tacoing a gun and lacerating a guys liver).

Ninja...

No. John Lewis made it work for two instances by offering big money to entice people to come, stealing everything he used, and not paying any of the expenses associated with putting on the races.
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per the GCR section on tolerances, ID of inlet restrictors is absolute maximum.

minimum thickness is .060"

Are people really spinning their engines to 13,700?

Congratulations JR!

It's great to see things finally come together for him in FB.

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