Don't worry, by the time you get one finished you'll have plenty of fabrication experience.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by lowside67
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Don't worry, by the time you get one finished you'll have plenty of fabrication experience.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by lowside67
Your car looks amazing...
Keep us posted on your first big outing.
the headers look great. I too went totally custom instead of store-bought but mine don't look nearly as good as yours, and exit to the right so the clutch will stay warm. :D Is that stainless?
Nope, mild steel with ceramic coating. The silver coating gets polished by the powder coater to look shiny. It really makes the pipes look good and hides any welding flaws.
Mike, thanks for the compliment but wait until you see the p o s engine cover that I am going to bring to the Sprints to put on Coop's Nova conversion. We had done a styling foam a while back and had pulled a splash off of it to check clearances before we started to finish the buck. This morning I pulled it out of the scrap pile and put a half a gallon of feather fill on it. Any body have any suggestions for any thing that will hide surface flaws better than flat black. I was thinking maybe carpeting would work but would be a bit draggy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike B
I don't want to hijack this thread so I won't post a picture here.
Good luck Mike and see you at the Sprints.
That's the only reason my car is white! If I ever want to go with a darker color, I need to do a lot of sanding & filling. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Devins
Hope to see everyone Friday!:greenflag:
As promised, here are some pics of the new engine cover. It may look familiar to some DSR guys...:D. Thanks to Dave Knaack for enabling this project! Next up, prototype front wings that should get fitted tomorrow. Hopefully I'll post pics from the track.
Looks good Mike. Where's that nose and wing?
Good luck this weekend.
Looks great, Mike. I hope you have a fantastic time at the Sprints. I'm looking forward to hearing about it.
Whenever I see pics of your rear sub frame, I'm still impressed with the clever attachment method. Sharp.
Go, Champ! (Did I just coin a new nickname? :-)
Huge improvement! Have you sealed the inlets on the cover to the airbox?
The new nose & wings will be meeting me at the track today. I haven't even seen them yet but I'm cautiously optimistic.:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by RobLav
There will be no photos of my airbox. I had a decent one fabricated before I made the airbox. It subesequently had to be hacked up so much that it's just an air filter holder now. A new one is the first thing on the post-Sprints project list.:thumbsdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by carnut169
Oddly enough, that's not the direction most people go with my nicknames :D. I'm thinking I'll need to earn that one!Quote:
Originally Posted by RussMcB
Off to the races!
looks really good Mike, good luck!
Ben
Interestingly, the last time I updated this thread was almost exactly one year ago and that update was for new front wings.
This update is similar but this year I adapted an RF98 nose and moustache wings to my RF93. Thanks to Sean O. and Rob Laverty for their damaged bits and pieces. They turned out fairly good. Well, good enough at 100 mph.
The other visible update is the more tunnel-like diffuser. I tied the wing endplates in to support the outside of the diffuser. I'm concerned about any hit to the diffuser causing damage to the entire wing assembly so I made the end plates such that they should break just below the lower element. Hope I don't need to test it.
With that, we're now ready for the June Sprints. See everyone there!
Nice work Mike!
Great updates, Mike. If you factor in the average age of your model updates, you've got about a RF97-RF98 now. :-).
One benefit I noticed after connecting the rear wing endplates to the diffuser - Everything is a lot more sturdy back there. Hopefully, with the wing and diffuser moving around less, they'll both work better.
To avoid the risk of damaging things back there, you just need to do two things: 1) Don't go off track backwards, and 2) drive fast and keep a gap between you and the car behind. :-).
I hope you have a great time at the Sprints (hat trick: reliable car, fast lap times and a fun socializing).
Go conversions!