Hey, Alan -
Iowa City - I spent more time at the Airliner, Gabe's and the Crow's Nest in my late teens than I could legally admit to today.
And a madhouse last Saturday night at Kinnick, for certain. GO HAWKS!
My parents are in Cedar Rapids, and Kate's niece lives in North Liberty. I get down there from time to time.
Between Burton Brown, Tom Donney and myself, along with a fistful of modified sports racers, the upper Midwest is becoming a bit of a hotbed for small bore LSR sports cars.
Small world! It's great to hear there's a "local" scene for LSR. Over my dozen years in Iowa, I've noticed this area (IA, IL, WI, MN) has quite the unique-motorsports scene in general (from Italian motorcycles in WI, local Chump-car scene, vintage motorcycles and cars, etc). I love the MW!
If you're down in the area with free time to spare sometime let me know... i'll show you around the garage, some of my toys, and bend your ear on LSR.
As far as this build goes, and what I'm capable of doing in the next 1.5 years ($ and time), I need to decide on if i'm going to keep as a vintage road "racer" to take to some "Gentleman's races" at Road America, or do the LSR car - if the LSR car, i think the only option would be a GT car. what i need to evaluate, and may contact a few of you via PM, is truly what engine swaps can be done but still be competitive. i see some of you noted there's quite the range of motors too swap in, as the MG lump is crap (which i agree). Now i need to just spend the time seeing what each of those motor size options are, and comparing it to the records in that engine class, to see if building an stock GT to reach that velocity is feasible.
thank you all for your help with this. If we do or do not build the MG into an LSR car, I am really looking forward to meeting some of you and learning more about the racing series over the next 10 months and at WoS '17!
cheers,
alan