Bought a carbide drill and tried to drill a spare german ball joint spindle for my FST car and found the steel too tough to penetrate.
However, I imagine it is possible to burn a hole with the...
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Bought a carbide drill and tried to drill a spare german ball joint spindle for my FST car and found the steel too tough to penetrate.
However, I imagine it is possible to burn a hole with the...
Wow this is a great tip! I found the 7 inch bolts are available from McMaster Carr on line. I will retro fit my vintage FV car
I also I checked the ball joint LHS spindle on my other FST car and...
This car is vintage eligible in SOVREN Club Formula Vee class. No changes required as far as I can see. Folks in the northwest who want to race vintage should look hard at this one it is a historic...
Basically, you are correct the vintage SOVREN Club Formula Vee class rules are intended only to provide a place for those cars that are no longer competitive for SCCA racing, that do not meet...
SOVREN a vintage sanctioning body in the northwest has adopted a set of rules for (vintage) club formula vee for all formula vee cars built prior to January 1, 1984. You may want to visit their web...
The Race variance has been granted! Both SCCA and SOVREN will be running at Pacific Raceway in Washington.
Hi FV Folks:
The SOVREN web site has been officially updated to include Club Formula Vee rules. To see the rules on the SOVREN Web Site go to "Rules" find Monoposto rules and click on that. Look a...
By way of an update (2/29/200. SOVREN will be formally adopting new rules for competition classes among other things for the 2020 racing season in just two weeks. Shortly thereafter, the updated...
Sorry, no disc brakes this classis intended to be a vintage racing class for older formula vees.
Tires are current SCCA spec Hoosier FVS slick tires. Zero roll OK, Mono shock rear suspension OK.
For those of you who don't know of SOVREN, it is a long established vintage racing sanctioning body here in the north west. They have a web site that one can access. The event schedule for 2020 has...
SOVREN is considering my proposal for a " Club Formula Vee" class which is based on Monoposto rules with a number of exceptions allowing formula vee cars from 1976 to 1983. It will be discussed at...
Hi:
There is nothing wrong with the standard starter set up used on the "factory production" Evolution FST.
However, I bought a "kit" from Campbell Motorsport and modified it in a number of...
As I understand, formula vee in other countries use the VW standard front ball joint axle beam, disc brakes etc. As I am sure we all know that Formula First rules were written such that they provide...
The Ghia caliper (also used on early Type 3 cars) is readily available and cheap to buy and I have them on my FST car and my vintage FSV Lola. The problem with these calipers is that they are very...
I been driving FV for 25 years, that hardly makes me ignorant. Sometimes the truth hurts I am afraid, but needs to be said.
I think FST is fine as it is, we are not Formula Vees and after 50 years it is time for the fv class as we know it to go away into vintage racing. The biggest problem getting folks to convert to FST...