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914/6 Race Car - Price Check, What's the market? |
EdwardBlume |
Mar 21 2011, 07:35 AM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 12,338 Joined: 2-January 03 From: SLO Member No.: 81 Region Association: Central California |
I have an oppt to buy a really nice street Porsche and am wondering what my race car would go for these days.
Its the former Grantsfo pirate ship... been sitting here unused for the last 2 years... and I've used it twice... Yeah, I know. Here's a short list of things: '74 low mile chassis FG trunks, bumpers, and flares 5-6 year old 2.5 purpose built /6 motor, carb, twin plug LSD transmission 5 lug / full suspension Cage Kirkley seat 2 sets of wheels Known issues: LSD slips Engine smokes after sitting long periods Carbs likely need cleaning Package would include nice Carson steel open deck trailer. What's it worth? Attached thumbnail(s) |
sean_v8_914 |
Apr 1 2011, 11:40 AM
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Chingon 601 Group: Members Posts: 4,011 Joined: 1-February 05 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,541 |
suspension stiffness is directly related to driver skill. stiffer springs load/store greater energy and release it quicker than a softer set up. this requires teh driver to be farther ahead of teh car. learn on soft and go progresively stiffer. stiffen teh car in a balanced manner f/r. canti slicks like near 0 deg and favor an AGRESIVE driving style. DOT-R like lots of neg camber. neg camber is a waste of money, tires and time for all but the most agressive driver
in closing, set up should match the drivers' skill and style |
jjackson |
Apr 1 2011, 07:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 5-October 10 From: maumelle, arkansas Member No.: 12,246 Region Association: None |
suspension stiffness is directly related to driver skill. stiffer springs load/store greater energy and release it quicker than a softer set up. this requires teh driver to be farther ahead of teh car. learn on soft and go progresively stiffer. stiffen teh car in a balanced manner f/r. canti slicks like near 0 deg and favor an AGRESIVE driving style. DOT-R like lots of neg camber. neg camber is a waste of money, tires and time for all but the most agressive driver in closing, set up should match the drivers' skill and style Wow,suspension stiffness directly related to skill-I wrote a lot of inappropriate responses to this.Good luck with your setup.JJackson (lack of skill SCCA FP competitor) |
J P Stein |
Apr 2 2011, 11:55 AM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
Wow,suspension stiffness directly related to skill-I wrote a lot of inappropriate responses to this.Good luck with your setup.JJackson (lack of skill SCCA FP competitor) Yeah, me too. I deleted most of it in my quest to be less ornery. Can't tell folks what I really think. I ran the 275 lb springs to keep both rear tires loaded while cornering.....at the time I had no LSD....never has been changed. Suspension compliance is necessary on our rough local venues. It works well enough on the rare occasions when we had a smooth venue. If we'd had a smooth venue to run on most of the time I'd have gone stiffer & lower. I've driven a stiffly sprung 914 (race set up for the track at PIR.....Indy car smooth) on the infield pits there. It was nearly undrivable. BTW, Talked to Brit this morning. He got the britbox corner balanced yesterday. The Subi conversion *added* about 115 lbs to the car.....who'da thunk it. No ballast for XP. He's down in Eugene trying for some test time.....it's raining. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) |
jjackson |
Apr 2 2011, 01:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 5-October 10 From: maumelle, arkansas Member No.: 12,246 Region Association: None |
Wow,suspension stiffness directly related to skill-I wrote a lot of inappropriate responses to this.Good luck with your setup.JJackson (lack of skill SCCA FP competitor) Yeah, me too. I deleted most of it in my quest to be less ornery. Can't tell folks what I really think. I ran the 275 lb springs to keep both rear tires loaded while cornering.....at the time I had no LSD....never has been changed. Suspension compliance is necessary on our rough local venues. It works well enough on the rare occasions when we had a smooth venue. If we'd had a smooth venue to run on most of the time I'd have gone stiffer & lower. I've driven a stiffly sprung 914 (race set up for the track at PIR.....Indy car smooth) on the infield pits there. It was nearly undrivable. BTW, Talked to Brit this morning. He got the britbox corner balanced yesterday. The Subi conversion *added* about 115 lbs to the car.....who'da thunk it. No ballast for XP. He's down in Eugene trying for some test time.....it's raining. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) We ran 250s and 300s in rear for years with our Koni shocks.Had Fordahl build us a set of JRZs that were valved to his specs.When we went to 200s , we gained alot more usable adjustment in shocks.The car was a whole lot more tunable with this combo.Have not run a rear swaybar since we left stock class competition .Sorry to hear that its raining on Brit.What a bummer!Maybe one day we'll attain the skill level required to run some thousands.JJackson |
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