I painted that car a few years back. It's now part of the Brumos collection, Jacksonville, Fl.
Stuff my dog says; on second thought I'll just build a race car
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Had a day completely away from work yesterday for the first time this calendar year taking my older boy out of town for a Tae Kwon Do tournament. Then followed that day off with today away as well but worked on the seat cover at the house. I've been dreading the work on that for so long I decided that for the blocks that make up the bottom and back, at least on the outside where it won't be seen, that I can just stick with stapling those seams. Those should be low stress areas of a seat that won't exactly see a ton of long term use or foul weather use anyway
So I got the blocks done not which was the part I was completely dreading. Doing those is just time consuming and it doesn't make it look any more seat like so there is low short term reward. I can move forward with it now though and cut some sew foam to add as a backing to the pleats and then attach those to the pieces of plastic to make forms for the bottom and back. I still need manifold flanges cut to proceed there.
So I got the blocks done not which was the part I was completely dreading. Doing those is just time consuming and it doesn't make it look any more seat like so there is low short term reward. I can move forward with it now though and cut some sew foam to add as a backing to the pleats and then attach those to the pieces of plastic to make forms for the bottom and back. I still need manifold flanges cut to proceed there.
More terrible MS Paint imaginings
Adding sump capacity, or damaged pan?
Capacity and baffling, plus raising the sump a touch and shortening the pickup tube correspondingly. Doing some math I have to raise the floor about a third of a quart, it'd be nice to add say an additional two quarts one way or another. Luckily I've got room on three sides of the sump to do whatever I want. Unfortunately I've got room on three sides of the sump to do whatever I want.
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So if I don't kick out but elongate the sump forward I can add nearly three quarts of capacity. I'll have to bring the pickup forward to the new center but I was planning on modifying that anyway and the weird ass way it's made moving the screen forward is dangerously easy. The question left is one of is it better to elongate than widen and I suppose that's dependent upon the way the car is driven.
Moving the sump and pickup to the middle seems like a no brainer, in theory the oil drains back evenly front to back so the most consistent way to keep the sump full is to have it in the middle. From there though I'm not sure. Will there be more consistently high lateral or longitudinal accelerations and does the difference even matter... Also I've drawn an inclined front to the sump, should that be flat to minimalize the amount of oil trying to climb out of the sump under braking. There will clearly be a baffle to try and control that. Can the skinny bias ply tires generate enough G force in any direction to make all this anything more than a waste of time?
I have no answers to these questions and more.
Moving the sump and pickup to the middle seems like a no brainer, in theory the oil drains back evenly front to back so the most consistent way to keep the sump full is to have it in the middle. From there though I'm not sure. Will there be more consistently high lateral or longitudinal accelerations and does the difference even matter... Also I've drawn an inclined front to the sump, should that be flat to minimalize the amount of oil trying to climb out of the sump under braking. There will clearly be a baffle to try and control that. Can the skinny bias ply tires generate enough G force in any direction to make all this anything more than a waste of time?
I have no answers to these questions and more.
Got the new bottom made and the bungs welded in, need to mate the two pieces now
Got a lot done today, wish I'd have got more done yesterday. If things have worked out better yesterday I'd had probably finished today. I put a half assed paint job on it and 4 bolts to see how it looks.
