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Car has been sold.

Thanks.

http://billstoler.com/site/#/gallery/2011-pvgp-schenley-park/pvgp2011-9142/ This is a 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix winner! Great car in ready to race condition. Fits large drivers - I'm 6 ft and over 200 lbs and have lots of extra room. It was completely taken apart last winter and chassis str...

I recently purchased a zero-roll Lynx B and plan to run it in vintage, so I am looking to buy (or trade for noses, air scoops, 14 inch wheels & tires) someone's Lynx z-bar rear setup that is collecting dust. I would also trade for the zero-roll setup I have if seriously interested. I know I can ...

Looking thru the 25th birthday party program (thanks for this bonus at the event!), it seems to be missing the vintage entry list and I am wondering if anyone would have this in their papers. My car was an entrant and I'm trying to do some additional research on past owners. My car now has matching ...

I tend to agree with Hars as this was my first "SCCA" event (have raced 10+ years in vintage) and was shocked at the attitude by some of the management towards the non-scca folks. I was told repeated by 2 ladies that I needed to "read and know the supps"... I was asking for help ...

Looking for a good regional race prepped manifold for vintage racing. Do not want to spedn major dollars, but current manifold is bone stock.

Thanks
Keith Lawrence
Pittsburgh PA
KLawrence@EDMC.edu
412-770-8267

OK everyone! You now have 28 days left, I will take your entry at the door if I must, to get your entry in for the best vintage racing around. We have something for everyone: Some of the cheapest vintage racing in the country. For the vintage racer we have a full day of test & tune on Friday ( a...

I run a FV with VRG and we only have a few FVs running with us currently. At some races I may be the only one running. We would allow a gutted generator (I have one on my AD Mk I currently), until/unless you're as fast or faster than the FFs and then we'd start looking. Please come out and play, as ...

I have 2 friends, who in the last several weeks, have purchased vintage FVs for the spring 2009 season. Looks like the class is growing fast in the NE of US (VRG club mainly).

If you send me your info on what you have, I can post it for you on several of the message boards.

Keith

Hars550, Check out the VRG at http://www.vrgonline.org I race a 1964 AutoDynamics FV with them and VSCDA.org and VSCCA.org. They have a great 2 day (prior to the race weekend) vintage school every May at New Hampshire (wet skid pad and all). Most vintage clubs have their own school that they want pe...

Vintage FV Wanted I have a racing friend that is looking for a vintage FV project or complete car that needs refreshed. She has raced before (karts and vintage Formula Juniors) and wants to get in a FV on a limited budget. I'm surprised there are so few vintage FVs currently for sale on the usual fo...

Jon R does at:

http://www.2belangers.net/vvr/coolstff/cool.html

They not be exact, but they are very close. He sent me a set a few months ago and they are very nice.

Keith

Excellent - finally something going my way.... may be a trend, but hate to jinx myself.

It seems to run fine, but have not had a chance yet to get in any real hot laps...


AS ALWAYS, THIS FORUM IS ONE OF THE REASONS I GOT A FV and will be one of the reasons I stay with a FV..

KEITH

Newbie question... Do people run the little u-shaped tube in the carb for the accel pump? A VW guy looked at my engine and asked why it was missing - the gas shots straight up when the throttle is hit. I thought maybe it was an airflow thing, but can't find any info regarding it. I do run a large (a...

8-hole paper gasket + very little Permatex Aviation = priceless.

Stopped my oil leak 100%.

See you at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (PVGP.org) races in July.

Keith

Any one have a spare vintage or regional engine for sale? I would like to carry one with me to some of my longer (8+ hr tows) and am looking for short-block only (I have good tins, fan, carb, In and Exh manifolds, gen stand, etc) for less than $1,200. Let me know what you have. Thanks Keith Pittsbur...

Yep! FW is out and the endplay will be adjusted accordingly. I noticed that I have a B type FW - it's stamped on the inner face very small and the paint on the FW almost covered it completely. A friend with a VW shop manual book (about 4 inch thick) says that this is a "later model" 40 hp ...

Since the engine has been pulled, the JB weld is comning off and a new cam plug and FW seal are going in.

Keith

The FW is dry, so it has to be the case seal. I also checked the FW "runout" in 360 and foudn it to be less than .001, which I believe is more measurement error.

Also the cam plug looked like the JB weld had it selaed up tight. I'm going to try one of the double lip seals...

Thanks
Keith

This is a new, red seal and the spring is in it. It was laid on the FW to check and it looked OK (no spring adjustment made). The FW surface is in good, shiny condition with no marks or dents... I'm thinking the seal has a radial crack, but can't confirm without tearing it apart. Would a leakdown te...

The FW and case are from the original engine, that had no oil leak issues. It lost #3 rod bearing on the first outing becuase the last person to rebuild it, before it went into 15 years of storage, used case stud o-rings on a 1200 case. You could take the case studs off by hand, but it never lost oi...

I'm going to pull the engine out again tonight for the 2nd time (3rd time counting initial rebuild). This is a fresh rebuild 1200 and it seems that the flywheel seal is no good. When running, I get a constant drip (at least 1 drop every second or two) from the flywheel area. It does not get to the c...

Scott, Your setup and the air suspension sounds nice. My first open trailer had no suspension other than the tires - it was a solid welded trailer with the wheel spindles bolted directly to the sides of the trailer. One of the first things I did to it was to add torsion arm suspension to it - and my...

Snookwheel, Are the axle tubes strong enough so that they do not bend with the straps in the middle like you have them? I strapped my car with them much farther out on the axle - between the back plate of the brakes and the arms. It seems like more "meat" there and less chance in damaging ...

Jim, I hadn't thought of "against the wall", but that may be the ticket. I got a 6 x 14 trailer with a wedge nose and I will also be hauling my boys 2 (maybe 3) racing karts and many other misc items, so the fartherest out option may be the most flexible. I plan to run the e-track the full...