yeah i remeber the old zink the entire back end was a pivot :) scary brakes
etc.
From: Chris Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [F500] The future of F500
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
Ever look at some of these older F5's? You think a SAE looks scary!!!
CR
fmod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Most of them are put in the trash and engines and other parts are
reused. I
have been told that if any are sold on the New England area, they can only
be sold to former students that were in the program and/or aluminest. Also
WPI brings cars to the event many times as do a few other schools, some of
which are a few years old along with the current model. I have never seen
one fail at our Solo II events only a motor problem. And our Region will
let three or four students drive them even if we have to put them in
different heats. They are fun to drive, although I drove one in a somewhat
wet course, but the shifting is not as easy as everyone thinks and you
shift
many more times that a car with a Hewland. I found it easier to learn to
shift a Hewland in my old FF!
The reason I have been told that they will not sell them in this part of
the
country is the schools are affraid of a "Products Liability Claim" if
someone was to get hurt in the car, even if it wasn't their fault, just the
bad image of a Brown U, WPI, etc being sued over racing. Many of the people
who hear of these programs do not understand that many of them go on to
design their family car.
Now you know why the American Car Companies are in trouble. Sorry Jay I
needed to get that out! When Detriot stops letting accountants like me
deside how a car is to be built, things will get better!
Sorry I got a little of the path!
BobbyJ' Photo
Fmod #5 NER SCCA
----- Original Message -----
From: "dan hester"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [F500] The future of F500
well i suggest you actually look at an sae car before you even think about
something like that, they are made for one day use and it shows on a lot of
them ,the thought of going more than 60 in one is just plain scary, and i
have attended many of the sae contests here in pontiac michigan i have seen
em all, there aren't many that would even finish! that is definately not an
option for f500
>From: "fmod"
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To:
>Subject: Re: [F500] The future of F500
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:40:19 -0400
>
>Why are you all forgetting there are 4stroke snowmobile engines which is
>the only future for F500 ten years down the road when no snowmobile
company
>will be making two strokes. If you lived in Rhode Island near
Narragansett
>Bay and see a jetski that is a four stroke they are now so quiet and no
oil
>in the water. And for those of you who don't know it, they are almost the
>same engines as snowmobile except they are for water! I am older and
maybe
>getting out of this in the near future, but if I was in my forties I
would
>be thinking 4stroke CVT Snowmobile Engines.
>
>Also if I wanted a bike engine I would somehow find the money to go DSR
or
>find a school in the USA that would sell me a SAE (?) car!
>
>BobbyJ
>Fmod #5 NER SCCA
>----- Original Message ----- From:
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:54 AM
>Subject: RE: [F500] The future of F500
>
>
>>Good job chuck, I couldn't have put it better my self. getting more
>>riders/ drivers is not going to happen by changing our cars. but by
>>getting out into places that have not seen or driven our cars. Doing
>>things like beating FF will get us noticed. (did brian have his engine
>>backwards) Rory
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