Blackhawk?

yes it was blackhawk

and then I pressed down too hard on the accelerator and bent the bracket
DNF
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So I reinforced the bracket with a steel plate and added heim joints to the cable and pedal rod
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Great thread.

It really makes me want a vintage race car with history.

Thanks, it is definitely a great time!

It has been almost a week since the race and I am finally getting around to posting some pictures. It was nearly 100 degrees out last Sunday but the race must go on.
We had 4 914s in the race and 3 of us had somewhat equal combination of performance/drivers skill.

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My friend Tim (Polizei 914) and I had a good run, I tried to keep his mirrors filled but in the end his 2.9L edged out my 2.2L engine.

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Really enjoyed looking at your racing / renovation pictures.

Question: Wouldn't it help your top end speed if you put the top on?

Thanks!
That is a good question
Opinions?

Yea, but in the end, he only beat you by .03 seconds!

Looking great Glenn! I'd love to get out there and help out, and then take some photos.

then get out here!

We had a double race weekend and it rained during practice yesterday.
I love driving in the rain so I ended up being 1 of 3 cars that were on the track...what a great time!
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Typical 914 defrosters I see! Reminds me of a rainy trip home from Dallas in a 914.

I rub the knuckle of my glove on the windshield to clean a spot to see out of

On Sunday i was out with some nice Alfa's and 510...even an old Mustang
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I came around a corner an saw my friend Tim (Polizei914) blocking the track!
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I made it around Tim and lost concentration and went wide on a rumble strip and ground down a banjo fitting on the 23 mm master cylinder. Next corner no brakes
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managed to stop the car without incident but my day was over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unzFNkqEjFA

First Race video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRWzIvTzYO8

2nd race video where damage occurred, went into the last turn without brakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5m5AbLNjCA

Here is the damage from the rumble strip, it ground the banjo fitting on the master cylinder.
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I'm guessing you don't run the cover then?

Nope, I will have to see if it will fit under a cover...may need to modify it.

I was out racing at Blackhawk Farm yesterday and set a personal best lap time!
here is a picture my friend took, I thought it was pretty cool.
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Instagram has some cool filters.

another picture with a '67 Datsun SLR 311 and a '62 Austin Healey Sprite
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CV broke today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodBfhXHRAg

Bummer!

Good thing no one hit you...

John

I brought the car under some control to a stop and lining it up to get back out on track because at first I thought I screwed up but when I was slowing down I could hear the clunk clunk of the CV. I was in 4th place at that time with 7 laps to go.

I have done nothing with the race car this winter, the CV is still broken.
I did run across a 3.0L engine last fall that I think I will race with this season.
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I recently found a killer deal on theses heads
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you should add a pan

here is the aluminum one that we made to keep the weight down
a complete A-hole drove me off of the road on the outside of a hair pin with a huge drop off.... (8-10 inches)

2 wheels off and the pan took damage
but no damage to any other componenets.


you should really keep the car more authentic
thats what is special about your car
and in IMSA it would have been allowed up to a 2.5
(maybe take the period correct case from the 2.2, and build a 2.5 twin plug?)

Certainly a thought for the future


No it actually ran a 3.0L RSR spec engine

From the 1987 IMSA rule book
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I guess it depends upon what year of rules you look at...
certainly when your car ran it was older rather than newer.

in 1976 it was 914's at 2.5
and 911's at 3.0

what year do you wnat the car to be authentic at?

I guess I haven't followed your thread close enough... but are you really trying to recreate 1987?

Accoding to the IMSA records shown in post #6 the car was continuously raced from 1984-1987 by Ray Hendricks.
Seems like it fits in right where Glenn has it.

fair enough
in the 1976 season the 914/ was limited to 2.5
and the regular 911 at 2.7
and the RSR at 3.0


as I look at post number 6, it looks like the car began racing in 1971

and then went into GTU in 1984

GTU was the under 2.5liter class...
GTO was the over 2.5liter class...

so it couldn't have legally been a 3.0 car at that time.

vintage cars always come back to what year are you trying to recreate.... what year was the hey day for that car?

By 1987 rules creep had upped the GTU limit to 3 liters.
Thats the accepted standard for GTU in some vintage clubs.

I remember watching TV and attending IMSA races around 1986-87, and seeing a couple of 914s still running in GTU, but they were no longer competetive.

so many of the vintage clubs out west won't allow newer cars in
1967 was the old cut off and that has almost universally turned into 1972 now...

a few out here go to 1981
when they use a cut off like 1972 or 1981, that isn't the cars production date, but the cut off used for the rules the car can be built to

but none of the bigger clubs out here go much newer than that
(or the ones that due are more "racing clubs" than vintage clubs. Kind of a run what you brung type of club that allow anything in.)

I've been in CVAR, RMVR, and HMSA and all of them adhere to older rules. Some of the clubs like HMSA (who runs Monterey) get some really good turn outs. The altec-lansing car was out last october at coronado when I was there. They kept it to a pretty early set of specifications. The majority of the 914/6's out here are running 2.0 motors.

I agree with you guys, I will eventually get back to a high powered 2.5L but that will be in the other IMSA 914/6 914 043 0945. I am looking for a quick infusion of power for this season and this engine came alone. I race in a local club called Midwestern Council and in the vintage class everything pre 1972 runs together including 500 hp Mustangs, Corvettes and Cobras. I am just looking to be more competitive with them.

Do you remember where you purchased that balsa wood from? also what weight FG were you using? (4oz, 2oz..?) I have that same deck lid and want to add structure just like you have done so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The balsa wood is available at any hobby store and the fiberglass was 2oz

I am starting the race season late this year because I went to Hershey Swap Meet and missed the first race. I put on some new axles and new CVs...
car should be faster because of the yellow
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I won my first race a couple of weeks ago and finally got the video on youtube.
I qualified 12th and worked my way up to the lead by the second laps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ptB3IZQRY

Glenn,
Congrats man! Great video - I love watching guys tiptoe through the rain, and it really seems to be the great equalizer in a 914. You looked like you were "reading" the track really well, you know just where to put the hammer down and where to be conservative when it was wet.

Glad to see you keeping one of the old IMSA relics alive. I'd love to have a car like that one day. Now we just need to get John (FourBlades') car out there.

I welded a short piece of bed frame angle iron to the crossbar in front of the mc and then made a little steel skid pan from that back to the floorboard. well protected in that area now

Congrats on the win! I agree with George. It is cool to see old race cars still racing!!

I love the part with the vette off the road on the first lap! I like to think of them as "steerable dragsters" in this case no so steerable!

Thanks for the kind words guys!
Nothing like racing in the rain...I love it

It looked like you could have lapped the entire field at that pace.

Loved the way you boxed the 911 (912?) with the Datsun. Sweet move.