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I'm not sure if he does British cars,but Rallye/Sport
owner Jeff Winter is in Westminster.He does SCCA Datsun
engine,& vehicle prep.
Very nice guy - his first car was a Ford Cortina MKI.
You can call him @427-0510.He build very sanitary vehicles/
engines.No interest here - just trying to help.
Also - Donny Seyfer at Seyfer Automotive (who I sold one of my Consul Capris to),does excellent work.
Contact me if I can be of help.
- Doug
owner Jeff Winter is in Westminster.He does SCCA Datsun
engine,& vehicle prep.
Very nice guy - his first car was a Ford Cortina MKI.
You can call him @427-0510.He build very sanitary vehicles/
engines.No interest here - just trying to help.
Also - Donny Seyfer at Seyfer Automotive (who I sold one of my Consul Capris to),does excellent work.
Contact me if I can be of help.
- Doug
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Well I spoke to an Engine builder today about my wants and desires as far as my motor. His shop specializes in Minis and has a package that he does often for his customers which sounds to be exactly what I want. The motor will be a streetable 90-100hp 1380,,, cost is a little open ended depending on the shape of my core 1275 but its sounding like around 4 grand, which,,,,, is about what I thought.
My greatest challenge in all of this,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,is to not total up all the receipts I've already accumulated, I may go into shock. I mean, who puts 10+k into a dang midget?
C'mon guys you know you have, so raise your hands and join me!
My greatest challenge in all of this,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,is to not total up all the receipts I've already accumulated, I may go into shock. I mean, who puts 10+k into a dang midget?
C'mon guys you know you have, so raise your hands and join me!
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When I bought the Tunebug a couple years ago, the fellow who inspected it for me told me he figured I could have it completely restored for $10k - $15k above the purchase price. By the time I'm done with the restoration/repair work I'll be in that range easily, and that's with a remarkably solid car to begin with.
I'm a bit of a bean counter by birth, and track all our family finances very closely. I do have all the receipts for the Tunebug, but I've never added them all up, and never will. I don't spend above what I have on hand, so that keeps us from financial ruin. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
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Im a little scared to start addind totals as well. And than all th little things taht you just sneak in cause something else dont fit right..../bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/pukeface.gif
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By my rough guestimate in full expenses, once I have the motor done and the shell stripped and repainted, with its new interior,,, I'll be right around 14-15k. The open ended question is whether or not I am going to be happy with the suspension so doing the frontline tube shock kit to the front end will add another grand.
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Ray,
Yeah it may turn out I am prefectly happy with the lever shocks once i drive it. Have read good things about the improved front end stability of the frontline set-up under heavy braking though and, this car is going to also do some trackdays at Pueblo. Long straight to a 80-90 mph right hand sweeper. Then again I don't know how much past 80-90 the car is going to get up to on that straight. For the last couple years i've been roadracing Aprilia RSVR motorcycles there with the MRA and reguarly say 158 at the second braking "2" board,,,,,, guess I am in for an adjustment eh?
Yeah it may turn out I am prefectly happy with the lever shocks once i drive it. Have read good things about the improved front end stability of the frontline set-up under heavy braking though and, this car is going to also do some trackdays at Pueblo. Long straight to a 80-90 mph right hand sweeper. Then again I don't know how much past 80-90 the car is going to get up to on that straight. For the last couple years i've been roadracing Aprilia RSVR motorcycles there with the MRA and reguarly say 158 at the second braking "2" board,,,,,, guess I am in for an adjustment eh?
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Oh yes,
The Colnel was allready very glad to hear I'd given up roadracing when i invited them all down for my last event.
Managed to only get bit hard once. In 1995 we were about to perform an ORI (Operational Readiness Inspection) and had been preparing for months in advance. Well, it was a key race for my WERA region at StLouis International and I was very high in the points and wanted to make sure I got my invitation to the grand National Final at Road Atlanta at the end of the year. I won B Superbike and got 2nd in B production, then,,,,,,, I was after it hard in the F1 race and highsided myself to the moon in a fast rt hand sweeper. Put myself in orbit and went off the track with the bike bouncing end over end. On the third bounce or so and a complete pirouett that would make Nadia Komoniche proud the dang bike hit me right before I slid into the hay bails at about 90mph.
Well....
My wife came home from shopping, she never liked to go to the races for some reason, and found my bike in the back of my truck just demolished. My friend Jimmy had taken my stuff home for me during my ambulance ride. She found jimmys note on the kitched door that just said "come to Christian NE Hospital, Jay is at the E room!"
When she arrived I was in the machine on a backboard while they checked my neck. Miraculously I broke,,,, nothing. Just wasn't my day to get hurt I guess. She kinda sort of demanded I quit racing right then and there, funny eh?
The ORI was a complete success but EXTREMELY painful for me as everything, and I mean everything, on me hurt,,,,alot.
So....
I get deployed for OEF shortly after 9/11 and I am sitting in a hot place working planes like a madman all night every night while the locals take pot shots at us and drop an occasional mortor round around us,, when I get home I tell the wife i am going roadracing again, period! And,,, she did put up with it for a few years and I had alot of fun riding the Aprilias but I have to say, it just wasn't there anymore. Perhaps I lost a little fire, maybe just older, maybe the bike I chose was too expensive and I was always afraid of crashing it. Either way I just couldn't bring myself to slide both ends the way I used to do and spin up the rear to finish a turn. It was fun while it lasted and I still think there is nothing like the adrenaline rush of you and 30-40 other bikes taking a green flag from a standing start and heading for the first turn. Consider myself lucky for getting out of it having not seriously maming myself.
Ok,,, reflective rant over
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, hope I don't get banned for using up excessive bandwidth!
The Colnel was allready very glad to hear I'd given up roadracing when i invited them all down for my last event.
Managed to only get bit hard once. In 1995 we were about to perform an ORI (Operational Readiness Inspection) and had been preparing for months in advance. Well, it was a key race for my WERA region at StLouis International and I was very high in the points and wanted to make sure I got my invitation to the grand National Final at Road Atlanta at the end of the year. I won B Superbike and got 2nd in B production, then,,,,,,, I was after it hard in the F1 race and highsided myself to the moon in a fast rt hand sweeper. Put myself in orbit and went off the track with the bike bouncing end over end. On the third bounce or so and a complete pirouett that would make Nadia Komoniche proud the dang bike hit me right before I slid into the hay bails at about 90mph.
Well....
My wife came home from shopping, she never liked to go to the races for some reason, and found my bike in the back of my truck just demolished. My friend Jimmy had taken my stuff home for me during my ambulance ride. She found jimmys note on the kitched door that just said "come to Christian NE Hospital, Jay is at the E room!"
When she arrived I was in the machine on a backboard while they checked my neck. Miraculously I broke,,,, nothing. Just wasn't my day to get hurt I guess. She kinda sort of demanded I quit racing right then and there, funny eh?
The ORI was a complete success but EXTREMELY painful for me as everything, and I mean everything, on me hurt,,,,alot.
So....
I get deployed for OEF shortly after 9/11 and I am sitting in a hot place working planes like a madman all night every night while the locals take pot shots at us and drop an occasional mortor round around us,, when I get home I tell the wife i am going roadracing again, period! And,,, she did put up with it for a few years and I had alot of fun riding the Aprilias but I have to say, it just wasn't there anymore. Perhaps I lost a little fire, maybe just older, maybe the bike I chose was too expensive and I was always afraid of crashing it. Either way I just couldn't bring myself to slide both ends the way I used to do and spin up the rear to finish a turn. It was fun while it lasted and I still think there is nothing like the adrenaline rush of you and 30-40 other bikes taking a green flag from a standing start and heading for the first turn. Consider myself lucky for getting out of it having not seriously maming myself.
Ok,,, reflective rant over
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, hope I don't get banned for using up excessive bandwidth!
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You are very welcome gentlemen.
It is strange that while I was an active duty Marine, nothing happened and never went anywhere, then went to the active duty Air Force and, same thing. Then I get out and joing the Air National Guard as a full time DOD controller and the [censored] hits the fan!
I would never say I welcome or wanted a war but I have been very happy to have had the opportunity to serve in the position and practice my craft in real conditions after excersizing and doing make beleive events all those years.
So far the deployment tally is this
Taszar AB, Hungary 95-96 radar controller
Tuzla AB, Bosnia 96 radar controller
Taszar AB, Hungary 2001 (was there when 9/11 occured) tower
Shabaz AB, Pakistan 2001-2002 tower watch supe
Bagram AB, Afghanistan 2003 tower watch supe
Baghdad IAP, Iraq 2006 tower chief controller
Anyone want to hear war stories?
It is strange that while I was an active duty Marine, nothing happened and never went anywhere, then went to the active duty Air Force and, same thing. Then I get out and joing the Air National Guard as a full time DOD controller and the [censored] hits the fan!
I would never say I welcome or wanted a war but I have been very happy to have had the opportunity to serve in the position and practice my craft in real conditions after excersizing and doing make beleive events all those years.
So far the deployment tally is this
Taszar AB, Hungary 95-96 radar controller
Tuzla AB, Bosnia 96 radar controller
Taszar AB, Hungary 2001 (was there when 9/11 occured) tower
Shabaz AB, Pakistan 2001-2002 tower watch supe
Bagram AB, Afghanistan 2003 tower watch supe
Baghdad IAP, Iraq 2006 tower chief controller
Anyone want to hear war stories?