Plastic Fantastic tew

[fatguyzinc]

the word is "bosozoku".....


bosozoku cars - Bing images

[Captain]

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.

[gconnsr]

That's a pretty serious wing and no matter what you do it's going to stand out. Reinforcement is an excellent idea.

[SuperBuickGuy]

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

[Loren]

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.

[DanStokes]

I'd say yes. (Do you have access to a wind tunnel up your way? It might matter.)

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

I rarely ask opinions - mostly because they're someone else's preference (which is fine, and I have my own).

But here, I'm kind of stumped.

the angle


do I match the B pillar window frame or the tail light panel with the struts?

[SuperBuickGuy]

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

[SuperBuickGuy]

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....

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

Tanks, Dan.

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!

[DanStokes]

The new battery just couldn't be 1" narrower now could it?

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

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....

[SuperBuickGuy]

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

[gconnsr]

I see the new tank is more contoured to the car than what you took out. Much better.

[SuperBuickGuy]

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....