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David Large
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Joined: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:48 am
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Location: Walsall, West Midlands
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 Re: r 1 coupe Neil, As you know I have 2 GTM coupes: 1) The red car. This has a purpose made roll cage manufactured and fitted by the firm that has just made Shane's, I gave him the address and details some time ago. There is no foward diagonal on it that would obstruct the passenger space. There is a cross diagonal in the back frame. The front and back portions of the cage are linked by low level horizontal bars which are running forwards/backwards at low levels across the door openings. There are 2 very short back stays that land on the top of the rear bulkhead. I have owned this car for about 5 years, it came with an MSA logbook and I have competed in about 40 MSA sprints and hillclimbs and never a word has been said by anyone about the roll cage. In fact nothing on the car has ever been queried by a scrutineer, Mr Goldthorp built it well. See pictures: Attachment: 
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2) Kermit. I bought this about 2 years ago. It had no MSA logbook and had never been used in competition. I got it inspected by an MSA scrutineer and it was issued with an MSA logbook. I have competed in MSA events about 15 -20 times and nobody has ever said anything about the roll cage. It does not have a forward diagonal strut/brace - it had a passenger seat in it when I bought it. It does have rear facing back stays which are connected to the rear spaceframe. See picture: Attachment: 
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Steve, The first obstacle is getting and MSA logbook which Shane could do now - it is pretty unlikely (in my opinion) that a car with an MSA logbook would be denied permission to compete at an event. In the details they take for the logbbook the roll cage is noted. David
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Steve Shield
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Re: r 1 coupe Some really interesting stuff here -- maybe I should try to get my car log-booked and see how it turns out.
Steve
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 8:40 pm
Posts: 190
Location: hampshire
GTM: Cox/Coupe
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Re: r 1 coupe just sorting me air filter out modding the back plate to fit ; )
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West
Admin, and Coupe Nutter
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:34 pm
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Location: In the workshop
GTM: Cox/Coupe
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Re: r 1 coupe Making some great progress, is the roll cage in for good now or will it be coming back out again?
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IF wile e coyote had a GTM he would have one with Nitrous too! watch out road runner! The First GTM into the 11s then the 10s, PB 10.87 @ 125.5 Mph on A048 tyres, and fully road legal at Santa Pod
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Location: hampshire
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Re: r 1 coupe Hi neil the cage is coming back out I only done a trial fit plus its out the way sat in the car 
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David Large
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Location: Walsall, West Midlands
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Re: r 1 coupe I had one of those Pipercross air filters on my Kawasaki engine, it kept on coming loose!
david
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GTM Coupe/Kawasaki track car - with Turbo attached and repaired/rebuilt engine
BRA 289 Cobra replica
Porsche 968 Coupe
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kano nordie
On the Road
Joined: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:47 am
Posts: 967
Location: Kano north Nigeria
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Re: r 1 coupe I have a very similar filter supplied by TTS but probably Pipercross on my Kawasaki in my Jedi and it has never come loose 
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David Large
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Re: r 1 coupe We cured mine with a couple of added cable ties!!! until we replaced it with a plenum for the turbocharger.
David
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GTM Coupe/Kawasaki track car - with Turbo attached and repaired/rebuilt engine
BRA 289 Cobra replica
Porsche 968 Coupe
Radical PR6
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Location: hampshire
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Re: r 1 coupe filter fitted now, fits like a glove well please ; )
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Location: hampshire
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Re: r 1 coupe Look what turned up today in the post
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West
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Location: In the workshop
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Re: r 1 coupe Boom more bits!
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IF wile e coyote had a GTM he would have one with Nitrous too! watch out road runner! The First GTM into the 11s then the 10s, PB 10.87 @ 125.5 Mph on A048 tyres, and fully road legal at Santa Pod
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Re: r 1 coupe Seats next you know
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West
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Re: r 1 coupe Im not surprised after our trial fit of my seat in your car  Neil
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IF wile e coyote had a GTM he would have one with Nitrous too! watch out road runner! The First GTM into the 11s then the 10s, PB 10.87 @ 125.5 Mph on A048 tyres, and fully road legal at Santa Pod
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Location: hampshire
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Re: r 1 coupe yes neil you got me going with them
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flippspeed
Looking like a GTM
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Re: r 1 coupe just getting some parts up together and made for the air shifter
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