Mike,
What is the wheelbase on your car?
Mike
What is the front using for suspension?? How about a picture of it. I sure like what your doing.
Glen :D
Mike,
Is that a clutchless air shifted Jerico? Does it pop out of gear when you let off the throttle like the Pro Stock transmissions do? Just curious.
Thanks,
Tom G.
Mike
Did you make the seat, or is commercially available?
John
Looks like a really nice job of building Mike. Keep up the good work and keep those pictures coming!
Just out of curiosity, what's the drag car tucked in beside the lsr project?
Pete
And where a mask!
And where a mask!
I think it is right behind him :evil:. Sorry Scott the devil made me do it and you are right "wear" the mask and gloves and long sleeves. The car is awesome and so is your bike. Not to divert this thread, but has anyone else used one of those fairings on a V-Twin??
Sum
Mike,
This is my first look at what you have done. I think you did a great job on the glass work. When we talked on the phone, I had the impression it was a much smaller piece that you were working on. I like the way you carried the theme from the front of the car into the shape of the fiberglass piece. Looks to me like you know what you are doing.
John
Dynoroom,
After doing all of that nice aluminum work on the nose you go to fiber glass for the rear fairing! That part is a snap compared to your nose! I know you really like to itch!!
Rex
Mike, not only is it a great looking car, but to be able to share your knowledge and expertise with your sons has got to be one of the greatest feelings one can enjoy.
I think if more fathers spent time with their kids teaching them their hobbies we wouldn't have so many morons running around.
I wish you guy's the best, and by the way, "Old Geisler" made it to Vancouver last week, and nothing has changed................ He is leaning on a walker while building a new street rod, and believe it or not, is selling the famous Geisler Construction 1951 chopped (and Pink) GMC pickup..............
I still plan on stuffing him when he croaks and hopefully putting him on display in Mike Crawford's Museum. Bob
Sure is nice to see the "roadster" in a Modified Roadster.x2
That Burns stuff is pure art!
Hi Mike
Do those cast flanges stay flat when welding, when using a single flange you can hold it in a fixture for a final mill cut to make it flat for the gasket seal.
What do you do with those type of flanges for flatness?
Those parts do make a nice & clean looking header, does the collector stay floating?
Stainless is neat to weld just like welding butter just flows and looks great after with all the colors in the weld to see.
Don
Mike,
I have never had the opportunity to take one of these trannies apart but looking at your pics when you shift into high gear, which I assume is the front (input shaft end) dog ring does it disengage the input gear from the counter shaft?? I am assuming that high gear is 1:1 with the power going through the main shaft.
Rex
Mike,
Those are beautiful headers!!! I agree about header gaskets on turbo motors, when I was at Interscope we never ran gaskets on either our NA or turbo motors, they always blew out. A little red RTV and bolt them on, and we ran some pretty good boost on the V6 Chevys.
Rex
Well work continues at a fever pace.
:cheers:
For those who followed our progress getting ready for Bonneville 2013 thanks.
This will be an update showing some slight changes we will be making this season to improve either engine performance or access to components to making the car easier to maintenance or work on.
This first series of pictures shows how we moved the fuel pump to solve a hard to start engine due to vapor lock after warming up the motor before a pass. I have run many engines with the fuel pump mounted on the back of the dry sump pump. This time the headers got too close to the fuel out fitting causing vapor lock (See the first two pictures). So we decided to make the fuel pump a cable drive unit thus moving it away from the heat of the headers. We moved the oil filter and machined the "mid" mount motor plate to accept the fuel pump adapter and drive assy., next two pictures.
I believe the cable drive fuel pump has been widely used in NASCAR and sprint cars for years.
DW
Racing is a series of "problem solving" events that allow you to spend money & make noise...Mike, that's the greatest tag line ever.
Mike,
Just a quick question on if your engine has a "tight" seal, i.e. do you have any openings between the engine case and atmosphere other than the leakage past the piston rings? I ask because if the pump is trying to evacuate from a sealed container it will not provide the best vacuum. As I understand you should have some sort of orfice that connects the case to atmosphere and this will keep the pump drawing the best vacuum. Obviously you will need to experiment with the orifice size to optimize.
Rex
The engine would run fine on the Superflow engine dyno in my shop BUT in the car we kept having electrical problems. So off to the chassis dyno to test ALL the systems as they run in the car.
Mike,
Sorry to hear of your problems but it was great to finally meet you at the salt! The G/FL tank that I was with, Steve Nelson's no. 221, didn't like the rough conditions also. Steve turned out at the 4 on our only "good" run because of the rough salt. The car has a solid rear suspension and it really was shaking and wondering around so he turned out. We hurt the motor on that run so that was it for the week. Next year!
Rex
Hi Mike - What is the length of an air shifted Jerico shorty 5 speed from the mounting face to the end of the male greek coupler? (car is in Houston, I'm in NC, no one at the shop. I'm guessing you have better access than I have right now). I'm trying to make sure I'll have enough room to move the engine forward without major chassis mods. I know this is not the type of question you were expecting, but what the heck.
Thanks, vic
Thank you guys... it is truly a 10 footer.
Meaning, from 10 feet away it looks okay! :-D