craig chima
Well-known member
Need to sell one of my two Lotus 7 race cars and BOTH cars have near-identical components as follows: Fresh all-steel, dry-sumped 1500cc Pre-Crossflow motors making in excess of 160bhp with 45DCOE Webers, custom intake manifolds, headers and exhausts with merge collectors, roller-rockers, billet cams, custom TDC oil pumps, custom lightweight flywheels/7.25" clutch assemblies and best-of-the-best components throughout. The motors would cost over $20K to duplicate. Both also have FRESH Spridget-based dog ring transmissions with Hewland internals, lightweight driveshafts, fully-adjustable brake bias pedal assemblies, adjustable front and rear anti-roll bars, limited slip differentials, fresh fuel cells, billet axles, aluminum radiators, MSD ignitions, etc, etc, etc. Differences between the two cars as follows:
Vintage-only car: This is the red/silver car that I built in 2010 and have raced roughly 20 times since then and has proved to be the fastest vintage-prepared Lotus 7 in the country (208's at VIR or W-G, 58's at LRP, 2:29's at RA, 1:36's at M-O, and 1:54's at Pitt-Race). This car has fully-adjustable aluminum bodied QA1 shocks all around, and a BMC based rear axle assembly with 3.9 Tranax LSD differential, rear drum brakes, one set of VTO wheels with Avon ACB10's and weighs right at about 1000# without driver. Legal with all vintage groups and still immaculate.
SCCA car. This car won the 2020 SCCA Runoffs in FP and can be raced "as-is" as a front running SCCA car or would be an easy conversion to vintage. The car underwent a ground up restoration of the chassis (powdercoated) including all new aluminum panels during the winter of 2021/22 and has only 4 race weekends on it since that time. Primary differences between this car and the above "vintage-only" car are a substantially stronger chassis and SCCA compliant roll cage where the weight W/O driver and required ballast is +/- 1200 #. This car also has a custom English Ford based rear axle housing with full-floating axles, rear disc brakes and allows for adjustable rear camber (zero to 3 degrees negative). It also has 3 way adjustable remote-reservoir Penske shocks and THREE full sets of wheels with fresh tires plus tons of suspension and other spares (complete set front and rear fenders, diffs, axles, uprights, etc). It would also be an easy conversion to vintage specs (different front fenders and likely converting the rear disc brakes back to drums).
Both cars are pristine, and will be delivered 100% race ready to the new owner and the price is the same $48,000.00 for either car. Please contact me for additional details, information, or pictures. Craig Chima, CC Motorsports, (330) 807-0742 or chima97@aol.com
Vintage-only car: This is the red/silver car that I built in 2010 and have raced roughly 20 times since then and has proved to be the fastest vintage-prepared Lotus 7 in the country (208's at VIR or W-G, 58's at LRP, 2:29's at RA, 1:36's at M-O, and 1:54's at Pitt-Race). This car has fully-adjustable aluminum bodied QA1 shocks all around, and a BMC based rear axle assembly with 3.9 Tranax LSD differential, rear drum brakes, one set of VTO wheels with Avon ACB10's and weighs right at about 1000# without driver. Legal with all vintage groups and still immaculate.
SCCA car. This car won the 2020 SCCA Runoffs in FP and can be raced "as-is" as a front running SCCA car or would be an easy conversion to vintage. The car underwent a ground up restoration of the chassis (powdercoated) including all new aluminum panels during the winter of 2021/22 and has only 4 race weekends on it since that time. Primary differences between this car and the above "vintage-only" car are a substantially stronger chassis and SCCA compliant roll cage where the weight W/O driver and required ballast is +/- 1200 #. This car also has a custom English Ford based rear axle housing with full-floating axles, rear disc brakes and allows for adjustable rear camber (zero to 3 degrees negative). It also has 3 way adjustable remote-reservoir Penske shocks and THREE full sets of wheels with fresh tires plus tons of suspension and other spares (complete set front and rear fenders, diffs, axles, uprights, etc). It would also be an easy conversion to vintage specs (different front fenders and likely converting the rear disc brakes back to drums).
Both cars are pristine, and will be delivered 100% race ready to the new owner and the price is the same $48,000.00 for either car. Please contact me for additional details, information, or pictures. Craig Chima, CC Motorsports, (330) 807-0742 or chima97@aol.com