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

[914 Ranch]

Still sanding and have about 6 or 8 layer's of fiberglass to go. I might even be able to put some paint on it.

[914 Ranch]

Yesterday I blocked the front foil up on the floor just to check it out. I put it about 2" off the floor tilted at about 10° and the leading edge is parallel to the ground. I stole the line for the beam from the front hood. I measured 10.5" up from the front edge which is just above the headlight well and drew the line.
Kind of tough making a compound curved square tube round would have been much more challenging. The foil has a little twist in it (about1°) but it is from not looking close enough before gluing all the foam pieces together. You'll never be able to see it when it's done.

[914 Ranch]

Taking the front suspension apart today, going to move the spindles up 30mm.
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You can't do that on my front suspension. The housing on my suspension has shoulder above the spindle casting. There is a 2mm difference between the bottom and the top of the strut housing.
Regroup, put the car back together and build the brackets and fix the suspension later.

[914 Ranch]

Reglass the end caps now that they are straight. I have more epoxy and some 1.5 cloth on order and that should finish the wing.

[914 Ranch]

The wheels arrived so now I am installing them. I have 4 so 2 per side. Going to mount them to the end caps at the leading edge, the cap is 1/4 so I can tap it. One of them will be inside the foil.

[914 Ranch]

Not much but I did make the cut out for the right side wheels.



Right now I'm looking for a way to make a bump in the fiberglass.

[Jetsetsurfshop]

Looking forward to seeing this finished.

[914 Ranch]

Thanks Shane, I can't wait either. Working on it all the time. More fiberglass work inside the wheel cut out.

[914 Ranch]

Got the wheels mounted. A few more layer's of fiberglass and I will have to build the Swansneck


Coming out much better than I expected.

[stownsen914]

Are the wheels to protect the wing from hitting the ground?

[914 Ranch]

Yes, I plan on mounting the wings nose 3" off the ground. This is supposed to be an A/X only car but I have seen front wheels off the ground at PCA events. Sometime or another it is going to rub on the ground. I still plan on lowering the car an inch in the feature.
Today I made up these templates for the brackets to hang the Swansnecks on.



Like I said before, "If I knew what I was doing I probably would never have started this project."

[914 Ranch]

Apparently I like to do things twice.

[914 Ranch]

I've come to a dilemma about the wings. The targa bar is the problem. If I put a wing in the back of the car it has to be high enough to get clean air behind the targa. And then there is trying to make it disappear. Like rigging on a sail boat, put a foil on it.
How about make it a foil. There must be a reason nobody has made a foil out of a targa bar.
That's pretty wild, let's see where the Falcon I go with that.

[stownsen914]

For the wheels on the front wing, just make sure that they never really touch the ground, at least during normal usage/runs. Agreed that a wheel touching is better than the wing hitting, but when the wheels hit the ground it will put massive forces on your mounts and where they attach.


Re: the targa bar, what about just putting a fairing/teardrop shape covering over it instead of making it a wing? I'm woindering if a mid-mounted wing would direct airflow upward and diminish the effectiveness of the rear wing.

[914 Ranch]

I was thinking that it needs to have a pivot and something to push It back down when bumped up.

[Cracker]

Hey Joe. If I am understanding correctly you are thinking of placing a wing in the center of the car...is that accurate? If so, I believe there would be no real benefit - it might even slow you down. Below is the sister car of my SCCA P1 - it is only used for hillclimbs and has been fitted with the front and rear wings. You're going to do what you want - as it should be too - but this system (as you know) is tried and proven. Keep up the great work!

T

[914 Ranch]

Thanks Tony, nice car. I like your 914 too. Unlike mine your's is very clean. I think I have decided on a color that your going to love. A '56 Ford color Spartacus firemist blue, had a Ghia I put a 356 motor in and painted that color when on emergency leave from Vietnam. It was nice to come home to a finished car, VW hot rod.

[Cracker]

Cool Joe...I do like blue!

T

[914 Ranch]

Working on the brackets today. Some progress.



Finally got my camera talking to my computer.

[914 Ranch]

More of the Swansneck, got the rough patterns done. kind of like it but it might not be massive enough.





i have to put a pivot in with a stop and a gas shock to push it back down when it gets bumped and I'll just figure it out as I go.