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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Build Diaries => Topic started by: bearingburner on December 04, 2014, 08:25:48 PM
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Here are som pictures(I hope) of our lakester frame coming out of the cellar after 13 years of work. Now the reassemble has to take place. We are about98% done and had had it running in the basement.That didn't go over to well with my wife.
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If I remember you can post 4 pics, total 500K using the additional options section... per post
Show us that lakester :cheers:
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No pictures to be found... Can't wait to see it! :cheers:
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I'll try again.
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It worked to some extent. Some more.
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Last for now but not least.
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Nice work; how heavy is your bare chassis?
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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let's see---
Salt Hog
Salt Mole
Subterain Terror
Dungeon Escapist
Salt Shrew
Vole-de-Salt :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Have fun guys looks like you are on your way!!!
:-D
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" 'Bout Time " :-D
Ed
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I never weighed the bare chassis. However one end is more than two old men want to pick up. I would guess the bare chassis weighs 6-7 hundred pounds. The whole car less water and gas weighed about 1800 lbs.
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That primer did a good job of protecting it.
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Looks like the Berkshire Hills of my youth.
vic
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Vic
Yup, down the hill from "Winser" on the other side.
Ed
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Good lookin chassis there Ed. Stiff is good when it comes to lakester chassis's, like a good stiff drink or a real stiff bone... well you know what I mean. :-D Looks like you might have the same problem I have with the shed being too short for the car. :roll:
LSR is full of people building cool $hit in weird places, you fit well here Mate.
Sid.
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Sid,
Bearingburner's car and garage in the pics, about 4 miles down off the ridge from my place.
I'm just a team gopher with plenty of free advice. My garage roof is the Hemlock beside my house, AC from 3 sides over a natural floor :-)
Thanks for the compliment on the chassis. Plenty of thought went into it along with info gained from many here on the forum. Hopefully we get to see if function follows form well this coming season.
I KNEW what stiff means, meds don't let me drink now and at my age can't do quite what I useta...... Good thing I got more than my share in when I could :-D
:cheers:
Ed
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Jeez Ed, the hemlock garage might be the thing that's getting ya! :-D
I'll be keeping an interested eyeball on your progress.
Sid.
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Thats one strong chassis the four banger is going to have fun moving it along. Looking forward to seeing it run next year. :cheers:
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Must have been a carry over from the days of big Westcotts, guess we'll have to up the boost a bit to compensate :-D
Ed
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Ronnie
How is the roadster coming?
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Ronnie
How is the roadster coming?
Been working on her every day since the last runs in September closing in on it making the changes in a way to not disturb going back to a lakester in the future. If all goes as planed should be at Steves Land Speed Night next month for the first public viewing. Westcotts have come in handy during the modifications used a number of sizes all left over from the railroad days. :cheers:
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A little progress. Frame up on rotisserie.
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For you guys in the south and southern California that's a snow blower behind the engine. Slim probably thinks it a 1/4
scale model of a REAL blower.
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We've got three snow blowers, thank you very much. One is kinda like what is shown in the photo, one is small -- a two-stroke single stage unit I use for clearing the sidewalk from house to garage. And then there's the big one - not quite four times as big as what's shown, but it is a 72" wide cut. I'll try to remember to take a photo of it when I get home and show you what a Yooper uses to move snow.
Now back to our regularly scheduled lakester discussion. :-D
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Putting such a long car in a short garage is going to cause a problem when its time to roll her out for the first time. Your going to need a door in the side of the garage of some big sledge hammers to open up the wall! :cheers:
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We have some dollies which I hope will help reduce the problem to a manageable level
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Corner to corner with rollie wheels, thats the way to do it. I have a 40ft car in a 30ft shed, just not with both ends on at the same time. :-D As you can probably tell, I'm not very good with math. :?
I like your little turbo Ford there, your car should be a lot of fun.
Sid
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I turbo motor is bone stock but should move the car hopefully fast as I want to go
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Couple or premove photos
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it finally worked so here are a couple more
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I turbo motor is bone stock but should move the car hopefully fast as I want to go
They're no slug in stock form so it sould be point & shoot fun. You might want to delete the EGR.
Sid.
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That's one modification we have made along with an inline pump,billet fuel line, and adjustable regulator in the return line.
Running stock pressure however.
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Spring has sprung enough here in W. Mass to prime and color coat the lakester frame.
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The frame looks great! Just fantastic.
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The weather has warmed up here and reassembly has begun.
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Hopefully a couple more pictures.
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Trying to send more picture.
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Water tank installed
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Looking good! I can't wait to see it!
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By chance, will you be at Loring in July?
I would REALLY LOVE to see this car
Gregg
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That is the plan,but you know of the best laid plans of mice and men.
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Aligned rear end yesterday. Got difference of 1/16" in 93" side to side.
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I hold the dumb end of the tape.
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Got car up on leveling plates and discovered they will need modification. Adjusted panhard bar in front and got spring shackles to hang at approximately the same angle. Got right and left wheelbase measurement within 1/4" in 234" Making new leveling plates this week.
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1/4 ???? that sounds like a lot. Our wheelbase is only 144 inches but side to side the wheelbase is set up to the exact same number as best as the eye and tape measure can see.... so probably under .030. We have a Datum point set up on the car and measure both ways to reduce tape sag.
YMMV.... (Your Measurements May Vary)
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Thanks Stainless for the information. We didn't know how equal is equal or how square is square.
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Bearingburner
A good way to line up the engine with the rear is a piece of 1.5" dia. cold rolled bar and accurately machined "washers" that just slide on the bar and just fit the pinion bearing bores and front and rear main bores . If the bar rotates within the washers with the rear and block bolted in place you're perfect .
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I have similar thing that I bolt in the main brg caps-- that aligns the rear
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We have been slowly working on the car. Have neatened up wiring, installed belts and seat.
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Got to driver the lakester Sunday after 16 years of building. Took it to a section of abandoned highway . It started drove(30MPH) shifted and most importantly stopped. The weather was cold and very windy with a coating of snow on the grass.
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:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Congratulations!
Will it be F/BFL as it's lettered? What's the engine- one you've run before? What overall gearing will you start with?
The engine I'm building will put my lakester in F/BF. Hopefully we'll meet at a race someday!
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Turbo T-Bird 2.3 I believe!
Good to see you guys are ready to turn some wheels. 8-) :cheers: :cheers:
Sid.
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Great work guys. 16 years and i'm bitching over 2!!!!!. :oops:
Wish the team all the best. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Mike.