Race Cars and Motorsports

Has any one else here participated in open road racing like the Silver State classic Challenge?
I raced the MKM races in northern Nevada with a v8 RX7 and am building my MK1 Spitfire to compete in the silver state classic

Kevin, I was a course worker, once. It's on my list, of things to do, perhaps with "Hemi Healey" or my Huffaker GT 1 car. What I don't like is approx. (5) days out of your life, for a 90 mile race,this being their driver school, etc, etc. Enjoy, roverman.

That's 1 of the reasons I went with m km to start
you qualified on friday On an 8 mile closed section of the actual Race course during practice times rather than qualifying on an irrelevant speedway
But either way you only have to qualify the first time you race
once you have successfully finished a race you could move up through the speed classes without further qualifications other then the experience you gain during the races which can be a real eye opener
I was running a Grand Sport upper class with a 168mph tech speed
Will probably start in a Grand Touring class with the Spitfire with only a 150 tech speed
But even 150 in a Spitfire with the top down should be fun
Also building a McLaren M8 style car for the unlimited class (it will be street legal,, barely )

Kevin, Ok to send pictures now . Thanks, roverman.

My McLaren and Spitfire are not in a condition I feel are photo worthy yet but do have some pics of my V8 RX7 at races on my home computer that I will dig up if you want

mine is the 500 car

Kevin, Good pic. What diff in the RX 7 ? Cheers, roverman.

it was a turboII but I changed the diff to a dana 36 out of a c4 corvette to get the 2.59 gear ratio
It had a T56 trans and using 6th gear for high speed for that long overheats the tranny with 2.59 gears it would do 175 mph in 4th and get 35 mpg at 80 mph on the highway
For normal street use or road course racing the stock turboII diff is a better choice and is actually stronger than the dana 36
my spitfire will be using a C4 corvette dana 44 diff and narrowed suspension



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I must wonder what your dana 36 diff temp was at 175 mph ? I will definately run a gage on my Boxster S 6 speed, possibly a cooler. Shame we can't run engine oil in the t-axle. We shall see. Thanks, roverman.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2012 11:43PM by roverman.