racing and safety First Race- 1971 2002- Koepchen Tribute Car

[Koblenz]

I like the duct work.

Edited July 16, 2013 by Koblenz

[mac]

FOR KOBLENZ:

Britney, in the Road America office, says the heat and humidity down in Florida must have taken ya'all into the twilight zone.

Otherwise, she's wastin' a lot of time prepping for the vintage cars this weekend.

mac.

[kris]

Nice car! Good luck with the racing.

[2590402]

Awesome Car. Cant wait to see the specs. Who makes those flairs i.e. Korman, Ireland, etc.

[jgerock]

Ok - I just watched your "montage" video. LOVE the part where the BOSS 302 skids off the track into the rough (I presume the video was shot from the 1800)!  See Ya.

 

Great videos.  Keep them coming!

[ndog]

^^^^^^^lol qwik way to do corkscrewed

[tjones02]

^^^ That was the Cyclone (turn 5) at Thunderhill... And likely from the CSL

[Jeff]

We had our first race with my recently completed 1971 2002 vintage racer. We built the car from an old SCCA car I had bought some years ago. The car had sat in my shop for 8 years, and I decided it was time to get it back on track. Racecraft in Seattle did the build, and Tinney Performance built the motor.

 

We built the car as a tribute to Peter Keopchen, who was a BMW tuner and privateer racer back in the 1970's. He was fairly successful against the factory backed teams of Alpina and Schnitzer. We liveried it after his 1971 Nurburgring car:

 

WOW great job on the build, I always like the look of the Keopchen car!

 

[NeueKlasseGuy]

First laps at Road America were everything I had hoped they would be. I was last at the track in 1971 as a spectator, but this was my first opportunity to drive it.

We had a little trouble with the distributor shaft lifting and turning on the drive gear. This was changing the timing and raising heck with the rotor and cap. All is well now.

Edited July 19, 2013 by NeueKlasseGuy

[ndog]

good luck sir...

[M3M3]

First laps at Road America were everything I had hoped they would be. I was last at the track in 1971 as a spectator, but this was my first opportunity to drive it.

We had a little trouble with the distributor shaft lifting and turning on the drive gear. This was changing the timing and raising heck with the rotor and cap. All is well now.

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in car video (without music) and car specs or it didn't happen!  

[skipsfcr]

Neuklasse guy...arrived at RA too late this afternoon to see you run. Will look for you tomorrow.

[markmac]

First laps at Road America were everything I had hoped they would be. I was last at the track in 1971 as a spectator, but this was my first opportunity to drive it.

We had a little trouble with the distributor shaft lifting and turning on the drive gear. This was changing the timing and raising heck with the rotor and cap. All is well now.

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My wife and I were at Infineon on the Friday test day for the Sonoma Motorsports Festival a month or so ago and I saw your CSL running with pack, great car and great to see it out there with the rest.  Was going to try and track you down after your run but had to get going.  It appears you are having lots of fun with the 2oo2 (perhaps more than with the CSL......? haha).  As an aside I had stopped by my fabricator friend (Roger Hamlin) who's shop is there in back of the track with the other race shops at the track, has a real deal motorsport CSL chassis in there at the moment, that he is working on for Henry Schmitt (sp) BmW of SF......I believe this is the Lemans car with the 900hp Turbojet motor....pretty cool.  Snapped a few images with my Iphone of some of the fab work Roger did on the steering rack and pedals.....such nice work.  At any rate nice job with the cars.....

 

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[ejbluth]

Love the videos, watched a handful from your channel, and subscribed. 

Edited July 24, 2013 by ejbluth

[tjones02]

Sports Car Digest has a cool motion picture on page 5 of their report.

http://www.sportscardigest.com/hawk-at-road-america-2013-report-and-photos/5/

 

How'd it go Steve?