The rat racer lives!

[htchevyii]

So, the rat racer made it thru two solid days of punishment unscathed. I cut too much off of the front springs, so I spent the night before the event installing another set. I will probably cut a little more off of rear springs and level it out. I was pretty happy with it considering I had never even driven the car except for a few runs up and down my street. I did start shifting to third after I saw 7500 on the tach. I'm going to install a modern tach just to be sure. What is a safe max RPM for a 1756? Most of the other cars were Subarus, Mazdas and Hondas. there was a MGB with a Mercedes engine. You'll have to fast forward a while (2 minutes) for the video to start. They made a nice S curve that I never did make it thru with the Spider's crummy turning radius. The car in front of me was a Tesla Model S electric car. The highest tech car there meets the lowest tech car there. I could buy 250 of my car for what it cost! Man that thing was quick! All electric with 413 HP in a full size 4 door sedan. Too bad they are so dang expensive. http://www.teslamotors.com/models

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[fiat218]

Driver side wheel? Is that leaned out for cornering,or maybe I'm not seen it straight

[RoyBatty]

Was that autocross held at the airport on the Samoa peninsula ?
If so are Bert and Faye Curtis still setting the fast times with Lotus products? Been more than 20 years since I last ran out there.

[SLOSpider]

You need some better sway bars on there and some performance springs

[htchevyii]

Was that autocross held at the airport on the Samoa peninsula ?
If so are Bert and Faye Curtis still setting the fast times with Lotus products? Been more than 20 years since I last ran out there.

It was in Samoa and the asphalt is terrible. Sorry, I don't know of Bert or Faye. I've spent a lot of time out there, but most was at the drag strip. We are lucky to have it here.
I have a rear bar, but am waiting until I get a bigger front bar.

[FiatMac]

I have a rear bar, but am waiting until I get a bigger front bar.

I would go ahead and install the rear sway bar. The rear bar greatly improved the cornering of my Spider with the stock front bar. Got rid of the understeer and created a nicely balanced cornering feel when I ran on the track at Virginia International Raceway.

[SLOSpider]

I have a larger front bar if interested Ill sell.

[htchevyii]

Darn it! So much for my budget racer! I only had $350-400 into the whole project including the car, but now I've got a big front sway bar on the way thanks to Brian and a set of used stock car springs thanks to advise from Jim Scurria (SCCA racer from Mirafiori.com). So now I've got more work to do and I still need to get busy with the tractor paint so it's not sooo ugly!