Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

rules? lol. Olson ran in a t-shirt with an open-faced helmet. Dumbest thing ever. i can see letting guys use their imagination on their cars for this one time a year event but someone needs to keep up on safety at some point.

Didn't they make Murdock change a bunch of stuff on his "dragster cage" last year or the year before?

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

what evryone not no;s is i made first of kind in my shop i did. i make sprint frame not race it. all you would call me crazy and i cnat stop all my secrets from leaving my shop.

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Originally Posted by s.chrisman25:
what evryone not no;s is i made first of kind in my shop i did. i make sprint frame not race it. all you would call me crazy and i cnat stop all my secrets from leaving my shop.

waht?:32: ummmmm...ok...i not no;s

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Originally Posted by wobbler:
I wonder if the powers to be will let this car actually run? I believe there is talk they will not allow the NZ built V8 Synergy engine back? Perhaps they are starting to introduce some rules to this race??

How much does one of these engines cost?

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

I can't wait to see this car all done in Tulsa real soon ! !

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

So did it ever make it to the Chili Bowl?

Matt Schuck
SETracing 52 53

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

There was a DOHC Honda and 7 EFI Esslingers at this year's CB, including 2 of the top 4 qualifiers (K, Swindell and Kruseman).

I'm not sure that it's a matter of them being "afraid" of the RRE motors, as much as trying to keep some sort of parity. The spec series cars have a whole week to battle each other.

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Was told that the Conze Special was titanium, but a sprinter.



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Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Originally Posted by brian26:
Was told that the Conze Special was titanium, but a sprinter.



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Bet that was the #1 very first down tube car. Kind of dates it self with the old Offy and suicide front end. Probably early 50's or so? But a beautiful race car.

More pics. please!!

Honest Dad himself:6::6:

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Stevie Smith tried a titanium sprint car frame years ago and never could keep it from cracking just away from the welds. He abandoned the idea after a few races.

Maybe welding technology is better now than when he tried it.

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Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Is this car actually going to be at the Chili Bowl? Not much talk about the car since last year.

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

hello everybody, mike here thanks,thanks for having an interest in the TI car. To answer a few questions, yes car was Very expensive to build,was welded up by a titanium bicycle company in boulder colo. My mindset was to build a car as if it were being built by a F1 team.With as many straight tubes as possible,taking some of the best ideas on other cars and my own and creating a car 10/tenths, unlike anyones ever seen. Unfortunaly, No this car will never race,it has become so expensive to build,turned out so nice,better than I ever hoped. The main cage is 11/2 od,every tube in the car was increased by one size. The butterfly steering wheel was made for Cruz Pedergon ! HA.I was just goofing around. Hey they use them in karts right? Anyway this was a very fun, hard,expensive project,and learned alot. Its the first and last car that I will ever build.Someday I,ll bring it to the bowl and display it.But for now its going to sit in the back of the garage in the smithsonian of mike with the dirt bike and all the other **** I dont use!:D

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

Originally Posted by koolkid17j:
hello everybody, mike here thanks,thanks for having an interest in the TI car. To answer a few questions, yes car was Very expensive to build,was welded up by a titanium bicycle company in boulder colo. My mindset was to build a car as if it were being built by a F1 team.With as many straight tubes as possible,taking some of the best ideas on other cars and my own and creating a car 10/tenths, unlike anyones ever seen. Unfortunaly, No this car will never race,it has become so expensive to build,turned out so nice,better than I ever hoped. The main cage is 11/2 od,every tube in the car was increased by one size. The butterfly steering wheel was made for Cruz Pedergon ! HA.I was just goofing around. Hey they use them in karts right? Anyway this was a very fun, hard,expensive project,and learned alot. Its the first and last car that I will ever build.Someday I,ll bring it to the bowl and display it.But for now its going to sit in the back of the garage in the smithsonian of mike with the dirt bike and all the other **** I dont use!:D

WELL:::

I say stick it together, all we really want to see is the roller anyhow, we don't need any body on the darned thing and bring it out to Tulsa. I'm sure they would make a place for it out front and they might even help finance the trip.

Honest Dad himself:6::6:

Re: Mike Minarik Titanium Midget
 

I have been looking forward to seeing this ever since I got wind of it. Please keep us informed of any travels with the car. Get it to the Chil Bowl whle it can be the first of a kind.
I can't imagine going this far without at least puting it on the track at th Chili Bowl for Monday practice.

Good luck.

I'd say at least make 5 or 10 laps even if its not at full speed. That way you at least have some photos of it going around the race track. Then clean it off and keep it as a show piece.

Or maybe, depending on how nice it looks, make it the chili bowl pace car for the feature.

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