Dave - Interesting. Do you have another car or are you getting out of F500?
Ever since the gentlemen from the South & Southwest asked about cars for
sale I have seen a growing number
of people who say their cars are for sale. An old adage in stock market
trading is that for every sale there has to be a buyer but is the direction
going away from road racing and more into autocross?
Here in the Northeast it seems we have relatively few cars competing in F500
road racing either regionally or nationally. I guess the rest are in
autocross. There is a combined Natl/Regl coming up at Lime Rock on the 28th
of this month. I expect to see only 5-6 F500s for the Natl and God knows how
many for the regl which is a limited regl called the "open wheel challenge"
for those regl classes using open wheel cars including F500. It will be
interesting to see how many show up. Since no one answered my question re
the Mk6 I can only presume it was less than a rousing success in DSR.
Ed Capullo
From: "Dave Pomfret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [F500] KBS MK THIS AND THAT
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:45:49 -0500
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
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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
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