Track car research

[Innocent]

Don\'t forget you have to wear a helmet for track days. I\'m 6\'3" and headroom with a helmet is tight.

Sure, thats never a problem, i\'m the same as everyone else when i\'m sat down, I\'ve just got ridiculously long legs.
 

I\'m 6\' and can\'t press the clutch all the way down if I move the seat fully back.

Thats good to know, if thats the case i shouldn\'t have any problems. Really like the look of your car btw, just a shame i\'m not in a position to buy for another 10 months! Think its just what i want though, and compression looks good. Is it typical for there to be a difference between the ratings of each rotor?

[AshRX]

Im 6\'4" and i fit fine. I changed my steering wheel to a 320mm, 80mm spacer to clear my knees.

Chair wise I have a Bride fixed back seat on Bride Runners and i have a fair bit of leg room. I also have a good clear 4" of head space so enough room for a helmet

[noyzboy]

Yep.
It was my car Andy sat in. It\'s a \'97 RS, very stock, rear seats, not bins. stock (big size) steering wheel
The closeness of the handbrake to the wheel bothered Andy, cos he couldn\'t get the seat back and hence his knees down.
Andy needs to go to Rotorstock and sit in lots of cars owned by tall blokes.

Here is my car at an earlier autosolo revving it\'s nuts off.
I must have lost my way and turned the lights on for inspiration.
The other pics are of some of the opposition at Sevenoaks DMC North Weald Autosolo.
The odd looking midget with a fibreglass frogeye bonnet had Zetec power with a ford rear axle with a LSD and got FTD, beating two Westfield SEights anf the V8 ginetta !!
The Alfa looke good but was slow. Even I beat it !!


Martin H

[Innocent]

Hi Martin, a few good pics you\'ve posted up there! Thanks for showing me around the car. Was my first time at an autosolo and i really advise anybody to give it a go, its really good value for money to get some kicks. Still prefer sprinting i think where you get chance to get out of first gear and get some real high speed ball shrinking moments! This was definately better value for money though, although i recon you\'ll make up for the cost in clutches and tyres by the end of the season!
 
My second major criteria for a car is that it has to be competitive in its relevant class in sprints. For an RX7, this means road legal production sports & saloons above 2000cc, which is a class dominated by Scoobies and Evos.
 
So does anyone know how competitive the RX7 could be? Anyone have any experience driving the 4WD big guns? Does anyone compete against any on the track?
 
Cheers,
Andy

[Carl]

Hi Martin, a few good pics you\'ve posted up there! Thanks for showing me around the car. Was my first time at an autosolo and i really advise anybody to give it a go, its really good value for money to get some kicks. Still prefer sprinting i think where you get chance to get out of first gear and get some real high speed ball shrinking moments! This was definately better value for money though, although i recon you\'ll make up for the cost in clutches and tyres by the end of the season!
 
My second major criteria for a car is that it has to be competitive in its relevant class in sprints. For an RX7, this means road legal production sports & saloons above 2000cc, which is a class dominated by Scoobies and Evos.
 
So does anyone know how competitive the RX7 could be? Anyone have any experience driving the 4WD big guns? Does anyone compete against any on the track?
 
Cheers,
Andy

Hi Andy,
If you give me a call I can give you some info that you are after.
01635 255545 or 07877 632369.
Regards
Carl

[Kieron]

Pop over to //www.fduk.org/forum and sign up, lots of members are track junkies, Max is running in the all nippon so he would be a good person to talk to about it.

[AtomicRex]

Or you can chat to us....we know a thing or 2 about track cars!
 
What about your arms?  If you have ridiculously long legs, presumably your arms are only as long as your body, so you will need to sort out a spacer for the steering wheel.

[20B_boy]

What about your arms?  If you have ridiculously long legs, presumably your arms are only as long as your body, so you will need to sort out a spacer for the steering wheel.

By the time you have a momo boss and a q/r, it\'ll be a few inches further back already. If its still not far enough, you can fit spacers np.

At 6\'7 you will struggle a bit, even if you are all legs. By the time you have a cage in and a skid lid on you wont have much room left for your head. I dont think you\'d have any option but to use a bucket on side mounts bolted straight to the floor.

[Innocent]

Very interesting that the RX-7 is well represented on track. So what is the most popular competitive use for it? Is there a dedicated sprint or race series? Would be really interested to come along and have a look when theres some in action (drift and drag aren\'t my thing though).

[Kieron]

All Nippon has Max and Tony. Is Atomic racing in that yet?

Time Attack has a few FDs but it\'s not racing... its time attack

[noyzboy]

Andy,

 It is best not to judge what a FD will do by my performance!!! LOL
I\'m probably older than your Dad!!

Martin H

[TonyC]

Very interesting that the RX-7 is well represented on track. So what is the most popular competitive use for it? Is there a dedicated sprint or race series? Would be really interested to come along and have a look when theres some in action (drift and drag aren\'t my thing though).

Proper racing is what you want, have a look at the thread that is linked in my sig (the \'here\' part in \'follow the build\'), next race date is also there.

[Innocent]

Proper racing is what you want

....it certainly is! However, my budget definately wont stretch anywhere near what would be needed. Love the look of your build though! Really gets the heart pumping thinking about strapping into that beast. May well be coming along to have a look around at some point. As far as my means go, sprinting is what i\'ll be limiting myself to for now. Looks like theres plenty of people around who will sort out the few tweaks i might need for that.