Eric, I have a 1999 Mk 8.5 that was reworked enough by the Edwards and Kenny Price to win the 1999 RunOffs with Jeff Auberger at the wheel. I believe it is #005. AS soon as I put it back together it will appear in F500 Classifieds.
Dave Pomfret -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric D Christensen Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [F500] KBS MK THIS AND THAT On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 21:51 -0400, Jeff Blumenthal wrote: > I also have the a Mk8 (#1) and it was homologated 12/95. That must have been Rusty Cook's... or was it Jack Walbran's? I had Mk 8 #002... which was a lie... it was actually the first that shipped 'cause I pestered Mike constantly about it. After he had to loan me the prototype for a couple races 'cause my car was late he finally got it together enough for me to go fetch it. The Mk8 was a weird design originally with long trailing arms that ran up almost to mid chassis. It worked... I set the track record at Laguna Seca with that car 3 weeks after I picked it up. But it had a fatal geometry flaw that made it stick like snot until the very moment that the back end let go. Rusty and Jack know what I'm talking about. Instant spin... no warning... no chance of catching it. The Mk8.5 was the "fix" for the Mk8, which went back to a semi-4 link.. but with massive right side aluminum trailing arm assembly like the Mk-5. My mk-8 was the first victim to get and test the retrofit. I never understood why Mike Kierns didn't go with the 4-link like Quadrini. It obviously worked... and still does (as a string of Runoffs winners can attest to). In my humble opinion.. the MK8.5 is a pretty decent chassis, but it is just a updated Mk-V. Without the true 4-link it never was really competitive with the Invader at the time. Somebody should really be capturing this thread... with a little bit of distilling, I'll bet we could come up with a decent history of KBS for the web site. --E _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
