Build Diary - RCR Lola T70 Spider

[Big-Foot]

Interesting.. I'm going to review this with our Chief of Tech.

SCCA just created a new class for former World Challenge cars called B-Prepared. National class too!

There are a number of big-inch (6+ liter) cars running ITE in this area.. Again - It's Regionally administered so the rules can vary from Region to Region.

I think as long as you're log-booked for SPO, you can run that or ITE in this region.

One thing that I know we are real sticklers for open chassis cars like yours and the Cobra I used to race and that's Arm Restraints and now for all cars there will be required side head restraints (nets or Seat) per the SCCA GCR.

[Ron Earp]

Originally Posted by Big-Foot

SCCA just created a new class for former World Challenge cars called B-Prepared. National class too!

There are a number of big-inch (6+ liter) cars running ITE in this area.. Again - It's Regionally administered so the rules can vary from Region to Region.

I think as long as you're log-booked for SPO, you can run that or ITE in this region.

One thing that I know we are real sticklers for open chassis cars like yours and the Cobra I used to race and that's Arm Restraints and now for all cars there will be required side head restraints (nets or Seat) per the SCCA GCR.

Now that is one I don't know about - B Prepared! Boy Scout motto and all that.....

I think this is one of the issues with SCCA with respect to the various regional classes and so forth. There seems to be no "standard" with a few of these classes across the nation.

SPO in the SE, to my knowledge, could not run ITE here. I might be very wrong on this but I have really turned a lot of this over to my tech folks. I've basically said "I want to run this in the 13 hour, what hoops do we need to jump through?"

My understanding from brief discussions is they wanted a class to run > 3L cars that did not involve the "ground pounders" - ex-NASCAR cars, tube frame round track cars, and so on. So ITO would fit the larger displacement cars that met cage rules and race prep rules but would keep them out of that class.

It appears to me the "no tube frame cars" is an attempt to separate the ITO/U class from SP. But, in making that clause they have also divorced themselves from many kit cars too since there are a lot of tube frame cars on the market with > 3L displacement that might want a place to run in SCCA. I feel this was not properly considered with respect to wording.

Now the arm restraints I think we'll have to have. I had them in the Jensen, in the brief minutes it went on track, and Jeff raced with them for years in the open TR8 until we got him a hard top for 2007. I don't mind them, seem fine to me. Do SRF cars race with arm restraints? I assume they do but in the time I've been racing with those cars I'd never noticed.

Ron

[Duncan Potter]

SCCA require restraints in SRF's and, I assume, all formula and sports racers. The only time they bother me is when they slip down my arm and get tangled up in the shifter. Have to do something about that!

[Ron Earp]

Well things have calmed down with travel, sickness, and other family events and a bit of Lola work was done. We removed the transaxle today and put on the proper adapter plate that RCR supplied to replace the old one. Also put on the flywheel and so as soon as I can round up clutch parts we'll be ready to bolt the transmission back on and move on with stuff.

Also spent time routing water pipes, replacing all the header bolts with good stuff, and replacing all the suspension bolt hardware with some high quality standard hex head bits. The allen bolts were fine, but I could see me getting into a situation and not having a proper tool or proper access.

Man, this is one hell of a stiff chassis as we noticed while jacking the car around today.

Tomorrow I plan to do the fuel system up and decide once and for all how I'm going to route it and what hardware to use.

Please to be back working on the car after a long break (needed from working on cars at all after last race season!).

R

[Johan]

Glad to see you are back working on it again. It will be worth the effort !

[Ron Earp]

I’ve recently received my 930 box back from Gbox. Gboxweb.com specializes in Porsche boxes and their vendor representative on GT40s.com, Ryan Zielinski, is a frequent poster on the site.

The main reason I sent it to Gbox was for a robust slave cylinder conversion. But, while it was there they disassembled the box completely, inspected it, replaced a few bits, and gave it a clean bill of health. This particular box has the rare 8:41 R&P, or 5.12 ratio, that is highly desirable for a racing standpoint. I was impressed with Gbox’s service on my 930 as the box came with a full report of the inspection and procedures performed. The box ended up to be in good shape with some wear on the 2/3 synchros, so, they were replaced when they were in there.


Gbox also rebuilt my buddy Ed's 915 box, in fact, both went to and from Gbox at the same time. Ed’s 911S box needed a complete rebuild from about 100k miles of hard street use and Gbox performed that service as well. Man is that box small compared to a 930, but looking good now1

The slave cylinder conversion is shown below in the pictures and is a nice piece. It has a billet arm and a pull slave arrangement mounted on heim joints along with a reinforced anchor point. Looks like it’ll do the job and I think Gbox will be offering this as a kit since it requires no real machine work to the box itself. Thanks for the work Ryan, quite impressive!

[Big-Foot]

Looks great Ron!

That Clutch Release arm looks stout as all get-out..

Now that you have the starter issue figured out and your transmission is ready to go - You should be ready to race in no time!

What else do you need or need to sort out on this car?

[john]

Looking very nice ron. One question ...What model is your Lola? I ask because it looks a little diiferent than my car. It looks smaller IMHO

[Rich E.]

Ron,

If its not too much to ask, can you post up some updated pics of your spyder.

TIA
Rich.

[Sandy]

Hey Ron, just check out your thread and saw the clutch lever stuff that Ryan did, looks really nice. I have the slave bolted to the case but that looks much more robust.

Hope things are rolling, get some pictures up so I can check out the trans and axles etc.

Sandy