The baton is passed from the crazy-man.... :)

Hi to those who are active on The Fraser Pit! I'm the enthusiastic noobie and this seems a great forum to capture data as the build continues. Also great source of ideas and inspiration as others have documented their builds.

For those that may have seen this build earlier, I have taken on the metaphorical baton from Gazza to get this equally crazy machine on the road. I had always loved the Fraser 7 and aspired to own one one day, when I stumbled across 'Smoke' on Trade Me. I was excited by the vision of Gazza with his concept of approaching 1000hp / ton, and really was taken by his high quality product list. I jumped at the opportunity and became the proud owner of 'Smoke', which was in what I estimated as an 80% completed project - seems a gross under-estimate now.... On reflection, I also think 1000hp/ton is certainly worthy of some form of institutionalisation, so will be aiming for the more pedestrian 700hp/ton - what could go wrong!

Gazza started building 'Smoke' back in 2011, so it certainly had been one of those long-term projects. From what I can see, Gazza fell into the classic trap of project scope creep. He's done lots of things at least three times as the vision changed or evolved. Nonetheless I admired his vision to create one crazy machine.

So 'Smoke' was hauled up from Christchurch and now resides in Auckland, which is really handy as the Fraser factory is only 15 min away. Smoke has had its heart sent to GER for a once over to make sure all is good, as it was assembled at least 7 years ago... I'm in the middle of the wiring nightmare, which I'm sure a lot of Fraser build owners can relate to.

Anyway, that's probably enough for now. Will update the Parts page and then provide an update on the current status of 'Smoke'.

Steve