Nine Fourteen Sex, The on going story of Love and Lust for a Machine. Options

[stownsen914]

Great work, and loving the updates!

Consider putting the wing farther back. I get the logic about putting it over the axles, but especially with a front wing, the car may do better balance-wise with the wing out back.

Scott

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Thanks Scott, when I started the work on Carerror I put her on a diet. I cut away everything I could to make the ends of the car as light as possible. So behind the shock tower there isn't much metal. But you made me think about a trailer hitch. The rear of the car is planted with equal scuff marks and the blue hazing inside and out with 15 psi. So anything I do to it may not be good.


need a better pic.

There isn't much metal behind the shock towers. The rain gutter needs to be braced to the inner fender well. I need to do something about a brace to the small area that was covered by the small grill piece.
Thats where the 2 projects merge. The cold air intake is going through the small grill area and the upper part of the area that gose to the window area gets cut out. The brace that supports the engine cover and the small grill piece is in the way and not beefy enough so it has to go and will be done when I do the cut outs for the cold air intake.

[stownsen914]

Gotcha, makes sense re: the lack of solid structure in the back. My car is similar in that respect. One option would be to angle the wing struts back and 45 degrees or even steeper, to place the wing farther rearward.

[euro911]

Joe, have you reached out to Ethan Kuhl and/or David Felzer @dfelz for some input?... a couple of top notch Cal Poly mechanical engineering grads (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

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I finished the foam formers today. I have about 50 of them ready for the spars.



The little square cut outs took more time to cut than the shape of the former.

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Built 9 foils for the wind mill now I think I am ready to cover the rear wing.
The spar with formers attached.



Need to make up the piece of foam bord as the sheets are 30" x 20". With my lay out there is a former 30" from each end.

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The rear wing. Mock up uprights and the wing is unfinished but there she is.



Not a very good pic and still lots of stuff to do it.

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Going to add more pictures cause I know thats what your here for.
I don't usealy talk about what I'm doing because it always takes me way to much time to complete anything that I do. Just something I been thinking about, a vertical wind mill.
The Blades.



The Wing





I'm about to change over to metal work. Making patterns in foam board was really quick and easy. 10 times as fast as plywood. Foam board would not have held up the front wing.

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I sent to Summit for a part and recived the part shipped in a box. I sure got my $10 worth of shipping.



I cut out the holes for the Cold Air Intake on the drivers side.





Not sure how I am going to handle the back of it yet.

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I got the correct fittings for the fuel tank and installed them on Carerror. That finishes the fuel tank installation. Not sure about the engine bay end of her yet but after I check that stuff out I can move her outside and put the bug in her space and put her in back in the shop. When she is outside I'll get some pics.



If you look closely you can see the new parts on the fuel line coming out of the bottom of the tank.
I did some sanding on the fairing for the targa bar but the pics were not very good. Maybe some more tomorrow.

[euro911]

I noticed you're using the European date format in your camera (Day/Month/Year).


I was also reminded that I need to round up the parts to install the front anti-swar bay in 'HOWARD'. I need to finish making a cart/dolly for the blast cabinet - have to blast the custom arms and downlinks that David @dfelz made for it (several years ago), so I can have them powder-coated or painted.

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The top of the Targa fairing is almost sanded rough. It's all glued together so when it dries I can finish the rough sanding.


The NARB in the back ground.

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I've been sanding on the targa bar fairing and it looks much better but that brought me to a thought. With the targa bar fairing and the cold air intake the hole targa bar will be covered. The targa bar should disappear in the eye of the wind. Just a thought, hope it works.

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So I've been a little busy with life and enjoying it completely. Getting a little ssnding done on Carerror, but thats about it. Had to cut up a tree and that took a couple of days. Butt thats not what all of this is about. I had a friend growing up in Walteira , Ca. Billy B (William Robert Mitchel), we had about 6 Bills in the neighborhood and had to figure what to do with it. Billy Smith was the oldest so we let him have Bill and it went on from there. I was lucky cause my Middle name is William and told them my name is not Bill.
Billy started turning bald in he's sophomore year and rapidly matured after that. The last time I talked to him we were 35. He said that nothing worked anymore. My life had just bearly begun at that point. i bought my first wife and house in HB at 32.
Butt thats not what this is about either. This is about distractions.



71 and still having fun…

[euro911]

71 and still havin' fun (hmmm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) ... good rhyming lyrics for a song) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rock_band.gif)





Me? ... I'm 66, and having issues with my get-away sticks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/howard.gif)

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I am ready to fiberglass the targa bar fairing and I believe that Carerror is ready to get start up again. I need to get her stable mate (The NARB, Not A Real Bug) back into the shop. She is a fun car around town (slamed, 2110 with a close ratio tranny and disks all round) and her small sway bar is 7/8 ths. She is a great training car for A/X as I have picked on the 914's with her before. She is in a pic at post # 252 above.

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So I have been trying to get comfy with the bug and Carerror in a 2 car garage, it's tight but workable. Today I got start up from Carerror and it sure was nice to hear her purr...

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Currently working on the wings making up the end caps. I have 20 of them to do and then I can start on glassing them. That's going to take a few days. Not that it's going to change anything but it's gonna be a little boring around here until I get the foils finished. I have decided to put in a switch to turn off the fuel pump. As I would like to be able to run motor till the carbs empty.

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Cutting the end caps for the wings, really sorry about using up time that I have here for work on another project but the foils are the same size. After working on them I realized that I could probably make the foils for the windmill out of just a cupped piece of sheet metal. Probably going to do that also just to see which one is faster. I won't be doing much more to the windmill till Carerror is ready for the track. Just thought I would do all of the foils at once since the are all the same foil (Clark Y 25 foil).



When I finish with the end caps I will make up the threaded inserts (40 of them) I will then go back to metal work on Carrror and mount the rear wing.

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So today I mounted the mock up of the rear wing to see how high I wanted it to finish out at and I think I got it.





Making some notes on the patterns for the cutting of the parts in aluminum. I have the stock on hand so it should happen quickly.