As some of you may know, my FC RX7 is no longer legal for CCTCC. We have just got the car ready to run ( I know, I know) and it sounds fantastic. We had a voltage spike in the car the first time we ran it and it burnt out a couple of transistors, but we didn't realize until last Saturday that it had also damaged the main chip. Dave corrected that and we finally got the timing and fueling right and it sounds and picks up revs like a superbike. WHOOO WEEE. We will be going out to Shannonville Thanksgiving Monday to give it a hard run to shake it all down and make sure it runs like it sounds.

The big question is what do I do with the car and my "freakin" garage full of spares and parts that are for the FC.

I have 4 choices:

1) Run the car in Ontario sprints as a GTB car. Lots of fun but little chance for sponsorship and I have sorts a been there done that feeling about the championship. (Ran in GTC back in 2000. Won 5 races and sat on pole 3 times)

2) Convert the car to an SCCA D Prepared National Class car. It is back to competitive racing, but I will have one race at Mosport then all the rest are at least 6 hour tows.

3) Rent out the car or use it for enduros next year with paying drivers. I expect the car will be a bullet and capable of running 1:36's at Mosport. It may be too much for most rental drivers.

4) Sell the beast.

I just don't know what to do. I am looking at building a (cough, cough) small block Mustang for the CCTCC next year so if I can put the program together then I will be focusing on that. I love my FC and have way to much money and time in the beast to just toss it away and the car is just flat out fast.

What do I do? Some ideas from you guys would be appreciated. For sure I don't need most of my spares any longer and will be selling off a bunch of those.

Eric

 

Well my opinion is to get it appraised, insured and then have a fuel system fire.....................lol

 

Sorry to hear a 7 may be leaving racing - I haven't kept up (no CCTCC out west), what will be changing next year to DSQ your car from CCTCC?
I'd vote for the SCCA D Prep option - but if it was me, I know my wife would vote against it

 

A 10-year age limit after the last year the same model was manufactured. i.e. FC would be 1991 so it will be very ineligible. Talking to Can-Saf this weekend we're all in a difficult situation. I'm half tempted to part everything out but so much time and money has already gone in to it and I'm so close to be done... lol The fact you won't be able to split the car between two drivers is misearble too as this allowed a pairing to share the seasons costs. I still say lets get a race going with three rotary only classes for each regional weekend. Off to Petit in 6.5 hours!

 

Run the thing as often as you can in whatever class allows you to run the most. You'll go nuts if you don't drive or if you sell it. Er, more nuts that is

 

I like that idea and I'd support it to the fullest. In fact depending on the classes, I'm sure I could get 2-3 cars of our own out for each event. Depending on entry costs ect.

But yeah organizing some kind of Rotary only racing series would be awesome and I'm sure it would get more people putting together some weekend race cars.

 

We'd likely end up with 12 cars at most but I bet 8-10 entries on any given weekend. Even a 20 or 30 minute sprint race format would be fun. Convincing CASC and the hosting clubs might be a hurdle as track time is already at a premium.

Class A - Super Unlimited - Tube frame or stock unibody, PP, large turbo, or 3-rotor
Class B - Unlimited - Stock Unibody Fast N/A or stock turbo'd with mods for each
Class C - Limited - Stock Unibody with factory ecu, allow intake, exhaust, suspension

Just rambling, probably easier to use brackets and breakouts

 

Just run'em Let the guys with the money win the trophies. The rest of us can just have some fun.

As for you Eric... Donate your motor combination to SuperB... 74 horsepower is quickly losing it's appeal.

 

If you sold it are you really going to get anywhere near a justifyable value for it, given all of the money and effort that has gone into it? Let me be the first to offer to buy it. How's $2000 sound?

Why do they have these "too old" rules? It makes no sense to me.

 

is there any kind of racing like I always see on those shows from japan here?

They put like 20 (seemingly randomly matched) cars on a track at a time, everyone goes from a standing start and it's chaos right from that moment since it appears that there's 700+HP cars at the back and 90HP cars in the front... But it looks like it's pretty exciting stuff after that gets sorted out, since there's at least half a dozen of the really fast cars.

Maybe they're all in different classes or something, I dunno, my japanese is terrible.

But it would be cool if we had a "run what you brung" roadcourse series here, with wheel to wheel racing, as long as it meets saftey requirements it is allowable.

 

Okay guys, back to reality! An RX7 only series is a far fetched dream! We cant even get more than 3-4 cars to a lapping day! The most RX7's we ever had in recent years was about a month ago at Mosport. We had 1 in G70, 1 in GTC and 5 in CCTCC. I think Paul Viera is selling his (by far the fastest FC at 1:31's at Mosport,) and the other 2 13B 3rd gens are still eligible for CCTCC. Only Eric and Kurt arent eligible for CCTCC. I am very content to run my car in GTB and G70 next year. I dont know what Kurt is going to do, and well, this post is about Eric's car. To run a specific RX7 series you would need at least 20 cars to put on a half decent show and we cant come close to that!

 

we could if the requirements were less strict.

2 classes, GT and open.

with those racing in the GT obviously going to dominate, theyd obviously win the titles. to the others it would just be like a more fun lapping day.

I know i'd put aside 5 trackdays and a good amount of $ if i was in an 'actual series.' I just don't want to cage my car, strip it, and trailor it. I wanna drive it there, swap off my wheels, track it, drive it home. Its obvious the GT cars would win but it would give the rest of us experience and it would be more fun than a convential lapping day. Or maybe I'm stupid? suggestions?

 

racing without a cage = stupid, and will never happen.

 

All wheel to wheel racing requires a full cage, a fire system (sometimes you can get away with a handheld within reach), a racing seat, full harness, full fireproof driving suit, gloves, shoes and balaclava, emergency battery shutoff switch, window nets, etc, etc.

It's about safety, not about keeping you away. Do you really want to die there?

 

nevermind. the rx7 series is just a dream than l0l