you need to ride in rays car and see what a bad *** N/A car is like. its probably more fun to drive than 99% of the cars i've ever driven. BTW- i'd sell you all the 5lug conversion parts(minus rear end) for 100 bucks or so if interested.

on another note, i am still alive guys. i periodically check the boards but since im rotary-on-the-street-less, i really dont say much. i should be on the street with a rotary by the end of the week though.....

 

Don't get too bent out of shape over that. Your motor is fine.

Track instructor, Mark Hughes, had one of the fastest laps of the Tar Heel event at The Rock a week ago in an FC. Mark is in the Triangle and a great guy. Should you decide to learn to use that power you do have to its fullest potential, he would be a good one to request.

 

what all does rays car have on it? where are the pics from the drive in?

 

Yes Mark Hughes is a very good guy...

 

So Who's coming to VIR?

 

My mods are listed on my car domain site (link in my sig) if anyone is curious.

Oh and Dave, it feels a little different now than when you last drove it. I had to get a resonator welded in for my sanity, and Steve helped me get my auxilary ports to open from the resulting backpressure. It hits peak torque alot lower (butt dyno says ~4000), feels more responsive in higher gears, but I don't think pulls as hard up top. I should probably get it retuned with the new setup, but I'm gonna wait until the nitrous goes in. The latest that will be is August, when I get my financial aid check.

 

I would like to drive up on saturday and watch. I would like to get there in time to get on track for the lunch laps.

Jesse

 

here are only a few pics that i have had time to upload

 

Hey guys, I had a good time Sat night. Made getting up for VIR for the Gold Cup Historic Races a pain in the butt though but it was worth it. Dave, I thought about you as I was headed up 501 to VIR, saw a sign for Bahama off of it and wondered what you had been up to.

 

Ok, since I can't make it up to VIR this weekend and we've all been tossing around ideas on things we can do as a group I propose we do this as one of the ideas.

We should all meet and caravan up to VIR one Sunday morning for the races. We can either meet somewhere in Raleigh at 7am for breakfast or leave Raleigh around 7am and stop for breakfast along the way. We can set up under the trees between turns 3 and 4 where we'll have some shade and picnic tables, and it's the best place to watch the action on the track. We will also need to make some plans for taking food and drinks for lunch. The next two dates we can do are on July 10th - Historic Sportscar Racing ($20 ticket) or Aug 7th - Oak Tree Nationals NC Region SCCA ($15 ticket).

The July 10th date is an RRDI meet weekend, the August 7th is between meets. I'm thinking the 10th might be the best date. We can either make it our meet that weekend instead of Saturday night or do both and call it an early night Saturday. For the people from out of town so to speak, depending on what we decide to do, they could either come up Sunday morning or I'm sure some of us could put you up Saturday night if needed.

I'm going to both events again this year, and I think for those who have never been to VIR or an event like this either date would be a great first time experience. Now the fun part. They usually have parade laps around noon, for a nominal fee ($25) you can follow a pace car around the track for a few laps. I wonder how many 7's we could get in it?

 

Follow a pace car? LOL

 

There are plenty of events that allow you to take parade laps at no charge.

 

Yep that's true, in fact you guys can run parade laps free this weekend if you go up for the Mazda drivers event. On the race weekends when they charge for it the money does go to a charity and I thought it would be a nice touch to the idea of having an RRDI meet there.

 

Yeah, I know it sounds strange to us 7 owners and the way most of us drive all the time but I've heard of instructors spinning out on parade laps, not to mention the everyday drivers or even those who thought they could drive.

 

Hi guys, sorry I missed the meet. Rick and I snuck down to RSR and wound up not getting back into town until about 11ish.

Rick had some problems with his secondary turbo actuating. dont we all just love that complicated sequential system.

On my end I had my car on the dyno. I was about to kill everyones HP for the day(except the 3-rotor), but then at about 6500 in 4th. the car bogged and unloaded a cloud of black smoke. apparantly, my TPS was screwed up(open at 100% all the time), it loaded with too much and my sparks fouled. it scared the **** out of me. especially since it wouldnt crank afterwards. it took us like 10-15 minutes just to get it to a rough idle. it seems to be ok now. i have cleaned the sparks & fixed the TPS.

 

Christina, don't sweat the dyno #s. This is your first car and 107 RWHP can be plenty of fun. If you got some colder air and and a full exhaust you should see some decent increase too.

Get in touch with me when you have a chance about GRR, so we can crunch some #'s.

If I can get the bugs worked out of my car I will probably go up to VIR to watch and run some parade laps.

 

Mazdaphiles-

Here is a video of a lap on the infield course at The Rock. Its several seconds off my fastest lap, but its fun to watch me play cat & mouse with this S2000. For those unfamiliar, no passing is allowed in HPDEs without a pass signal from the car in front. You can hear me having to back off the gas a couple of times.

Quicktime:
http://theclient.hypermart.net/fortn...ckS2000lap.mov

Same video but in MPEG-4
http://theclient.hypermart.net/fortn...ckS2000lap.mp4

 

Super video.

 

That car makes me sad... it's what my FB is SUPPOSED to look like! Whos is it?

 

Hey guys... who all is going to Nopi?

...if any RRDI ppl are going, I'd love to caravan down there Saturday morning... what do you guys think?

 

Sad but true. I am selling my beloved FC. Dont judge me too harshly. Interested? See E Bay link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...%3ALC%3AMT%3A1

 

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We should all meet and caravan up to VIR one Sunday morning for the races. We can either meet somewhere in Raleigh at 7am for breakfast or leave Raleigh around 7am and stop for breakfast along the way. We can set up under the trees between turns 3 and 4 where we'll have some shade and picnic tables, and it's the best place to watch the action on the track. We will also need to make some plans for taking food and drinks for lunch. The next two dates we can do are on July 10th - Historic Sportscar Racing ($20 ticket) or Aug 7th - Oak Tree Nationals NC Region SCCA ($15 ticket).

The Oak tree nationals would be a better IMO. More Rx7s and stuff.

Lee are you coming to VIR this weekend

 

Lee are you coming to VIR this weekend


I might but I'm not sure you guys will associate with a non rotary driver. See above.

 

Got to catch up on everything for the last couple of days. First about this weekend's drive up to VIR:
We are going to meet at the Caribou Coffee shop at Briars Creek Shopping Center off of Hwy 70. We should leave there by 9:00 AM to get to VIR before the parade laps begin. That will give us a couple of hours to get up there and some time to check things our before the noon break.

Right now Jesse, Josh, and I are the only ones onboard, Greg said that he might drive up on Sunday since he has to work on Saturdays. Anyone else want to join the caravan. It is a great drive up from Raleigh, we'll go thru Bahama like before and then up to Roxboro and on to VIR. If we leave by 9:00 we should make it up there around 11:00 or we can leave earlier if everyone is up for it.

I visited a place called Tires 'n Parts today in Raleigh and picked up a case of Royal Purple 20W50 syn oil. I changed my oil today and I'll see how it works. They can get any of the Royal Purple products for tranny, differential, etc. I picked up a bottle of Purple Ice for the cooling system and that will be the next giveaway prize at the next Drive-In that has all gens of RX7 present, two vert's, and an RX8.

I agree with Greg anyone that hasn't been to VIR is in for a treat, its a beautiful road course and the drive up is a lot of fun on some great back roads. Who is planning on meeting us on Saturday morning and how early do you want to leave?

Bert

 

Raleigh folks-
I'll be up at VIR instructing for MDA this weekend. Lord be willing and the creek don't rise I'll be driving the FD - if not, the Spec Miata. I can give one or several of you a ride if you would like - as long as you are interested in participating in one of their events in the future and you sign the waiver (and get the armband), you don't have to be an official student to go out with an instructor. At least those were the rules this spring with MDA. I have an extra helmet I'll bring with me. Look for a black Excursion with an open trailer and either a Montego Blue FD or a red Spec Miata #62 - I'll probably also have a blue EZ-Up as well. PM me with any ?s, or if you think you might show so I can be looking for you.

Marvin McBride