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Works really well. I can see "way" behind me and works well, even in bright sunlight. Luckily I had enough room in my car to make it a nice set up.

I am not after a video recording system. I want a camera that shows the rear view from my car. So basically an electronic rear view mirror. So no recording of image. I have real troubles seeing...

You should be fine with carbon bodywork. Lots of P2 cars (Stohrs, etc) run carbon bodywork.

As your car is an FIA CN class car, that ran (runs) in...

The SCCA recently altered the rules for P2 cars. They no longer allow for cars that have carbon fiber skins on the chassis. But you may get in as a spec line car. I would check with the SCCA about...

Just wondering how much people have seen/heard about this.

Stan and Rennie did a nice webcast describing their current efforts, on shop build and new Stohr P2 car.

The big "reveal" was the...

Where Sonic restrictors ever used or discussed as a way to cut power on these cars.? (Or the awful but simple flat plate restrictor?)

Would that not be a way (not always the best-I admit) to keep...

Wanna try to explain the statement? Just curious-no disrespect intended.

I was also confused by Provamo's text. Made no sense to me either.

Can be done but requires a bit of time on the dyno with any and all engines, even if a common ECU. Nothing big deal here but who pays for it all?

Any EU builder will need to be able to get a...

There is no fundamental legal issue in getting the NP01 into SCCA P2.

Basically the engine dyno curve needs to be submitted to SCCA, along with car weight, so that the SCCA can work out a proper...

Not answering question asked?

Where do you race this car? You give some "theoretical" places. But have you actually looked at your car concept relative to those options? The fact that there are...

As Steve, Jay and others know the problem is, as always, one of the chicken and egg.

Car concept is good. Lower purchase cost, lower running costs, partial build by customer (This was an option on...

The BOM is not for an MC powered car. The BOM has a proper gearbox as part of parts list.

Greg,

Educating yourself is first step, which you seem earnest in doing-so good for you! Do a proper Bill of Materials and see what it adds up to. You will be very surprised.

I have simplified...

Jay--

One thing your are 100% right about is how little understanding the potential car customer has over the cost to design, tool and manufacture a race car. Tooling is a massive hit, even for...

Funny. I have usually used a 10 car run as the yardstick for the volume needed to break even on a car program. Seems to be a good number whether an SCCA racer or an LMP 1 car!

Still think a...

Not sure I understand the logic in what you suggest you would do to a first generation Stohr.

1.) Remove downforce. Why? Its there and isn't costing you anything in purchase price or running...

Greg,

Do me (and you) a favor. Please publish a full BOM of costs for all parts and labor to do your ~$30K car. I would be interested in seeing it. Send it to me privately if you don't want people...

Hey guys,

Just would like a general understanding of the current status of F1000:

1.) Rules
2.) SCCA class and "vision" for cars
3.) Non SCCA races (Southeast)

Etc.

As someone who has been doing this for about 25 years now one thing is for sure:

The concept you have is great but your cost estimates are probably off by 50-100%.

Now you as an individual...

Not possible.

May help you out. This is what most Indycar teams, LMP1 teams and F1 team use in their CV's. (Tripo's)

Tom Kaufman ran a P2 West that is owned by a buddy. His second time in car-first time was at runoffs last year and car broke on lap one of race (stuck into 5th gear) so no real chance to run right.
...

Also remember the NP01 is not on full race rubber
It runs DOT legal "race slicks" but not anything as sticky as Hoosiers or goodyears

The only time from road Atlanta is from a gentleman who agrees that he was very much off pace potential of the car
In testing at Kershaw and Roebling Road the car has been between an Fc and Ff time

My 2 biggest concerns would be:
Lap times will be racing against some quick SR type cars.
Don't want to big a speed differential

And then can an SRF go the distance?
Of course same question...

Just for all:

Still working thru concept and details. A lot of "what if's and issues to deal with".

But can add the following:

Talking to 2 different Sanctioning bodies. With a 3rd in line....

A 1.31 to 1.33 is where we predicted the car's lap times could be at RA.

U are on target with the track time requirements
But that would before bespoke series on its own
Not as a piggyback onto an existing series like NASA or Scca

Curious what previous series has...

As usual there is a lot to work out with respect to this but I have been approached by a big ($$) company who is interested in sponsoring an "amateur" level endurance series for Sports Prototypes...

Tires are "dot legal" slicks. Toyo Brand

They seem to grip well, be very consistent and last quite a while.

Car is seeing 1.5 g's in testing.

Ahh-Yes-An SCCA Enterprise Car. I knew that. Just had a brain fade.


See no issues with that car. Not bad looking at all. Just not available for NASA-as it is an SCCA Enterprises car. And NASA...

What is an ESR? Seriously. Not familiar with that spec.

Nasa will not disqualify you for adding a headrestraint, etc. Add it if you want.

Originally the car was going to be delivered with seat or seatbelts. Logic being that these are items that...

Please understand that this car is very cost contained/limited. As hard as it may seem to believe-at the sales price of the car Elan is not making much money on this project.

A lot of difficult...

Car has tested at Roebling and Kershaw. In both cases car was a couple seconds a lap faster than a FF1600 car and a couple seconds slower than a FF2000 car.

So faster than had been expected...

Is anyone interested in opening up ApexSpeed to non-formula car categories? Specifically i am talking about adding C Sports/D Sports to site. I know there is DSRforum but I like the format and...

looks okay.

What is cost?

What features does it have that isn't out there on current packages?

Open source is a bit tricky.

You have to get a preprocessor to generate the mesh from the .stl or CAD file.
You then need a solver (Like open foam)
Then you need a post processor to generate any...