SBG......
Daylight Savings Time kicked in Sunday 2 am.......
Lately, All your Pix are with a "Bat Cave Darkness" background lighting.......Is there something we should know ? LOL
LOOKS KOOL !!!
Let us know how well it has effected the Handling, and track times.
onward with fastening
Luigi is checking out the progress too
notice the tail blur? he is one active dog (love it)
bolted down
with pads to pretend we're saving the paint
and tied to the frame
tomorrow weld
I'd say if, as seen from the side, the back of the side window opening (why do I still want to call that a C-pillar) were vertical, and the taillight panel at 15 degrees, and the wing strut were 8/10ths of the way back from one to the other, I'd slant it at 12 degrees.
time to give it wings.. or a wing
aluminum angle
some solid eyeball calibrating followed by serious staring
wing held on by hopes and prayers with an assist by gravity
it's about here I'm considering whether or not I like the stands.... they need to parallel something, e.g. the rear valence and let me be SUPER clear, I approved the design. CIRO did what I asked them to do...
my brave act of the night
now in place
thankfully, I have a plasma table... basically the wing will end above the end of the deck - so it will move horizontally.... no big deal
love it
a good view - the stands will mirror the rear angle - also, I have to build an 8" version for Optima.
paint is dry so I can finish this as well
Originally posted by dave.g.in.gansevoortView Post
This reminded me of the first fuel tank we made for the dirt modified. We ran methanol and the Firestone fuel cell foam and bladder would have failed within weeks if we tried it on fuel, so some 1/8 inch 6061 was procured. We made a rectangular tank that held 30 gallons of methanol. It had baffling but not fastened to the top adequately. It split the top right side seam in about 4 nights of hard left turns at the Valley. It got replaced with a 40 gallon sprint car tail tank.
Which had no baffling. We did what the sprint car guys did, stuffed a bunch of wiffle balls in it. The methanol doesn't affect them, they are mostly void, and they don't move around. Perfect baffles...
of course all the kids who donated wiffle balls might have wondered where their wiffle balls went!
wiffle thief - childhood ruined, they trust no one anymore.... let me guess, they're all politicians now....
time to install the baffles
welded
braces... if you don't brace the tank (or don't brace it enough) eventually it will leak due to fatigue cracking
because I'm using hydramat, baffles have to account for that - more directly, no sump but side to side motion needs to be minimized
welded in place. tomorrow sealant and end caps
got the wheels stripped today - off to powder coating tomorrow (I hope)
This reminded me of the first fuel tank we made for the dirt modified. We ran methanol and the Firestone fuel cell foam and bladder would have failed within weeks if we tried it on fuel, so some 1/8 inch 6061 was procured. We made a rectangular tank that held 30 gallons of methanol. It had baffling but not fastened to the top adequately. It split the top right side seam in about 4 nights of hard left turns at the Valley. It got replaced with a 40 gallon sprint car tail tank.
Which had no baffling. We did what the sprint car guys did, stuffed a bunch of wiffle balls in it. The methanol doesn't affect them, they are mostly void, and they don't move around. Perfect baffles...
of course all the kids who donated wiffle balls might have wondered where their wiffle balls went!
Battery, cont.
it's like 1" wider... so a new tray is in order
and off
new tray
and installed and painted
at the swap meet today, I took a chance on several of these...
makes getting the burn off a lot easier
and reverse light....
I see the new tank is more contoured to the car than what you took out. Much better.
aero, it's the top of a yet-to-be-built defuser... eventually, this will have a full belly pan - I bought the metal recently, if I have a chance, it will be on the car before July
tonight started mapping how I'm going to accomplish the tasks
was kind of hoping there would be some 'dos' and 'dont's' from the seller... guess not - this needs to attach to the deck and be supported underneath to the frame
here
the optima battery is 1" wider... so new battery box coming
part of tonight was a failed attempt to figure out whether the wire with a knot or the brown wire were the reverse light wires... I have a schematic - but who knows where
tomorrow I will spend some time on this but most of the day will be spent looking for used parts that I don't need....
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