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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Build Diaries => Topic started by: Sumner on December 31, 2007, 11:12:58 PM
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(http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvillecar-2/12-30-07-t12.jpg)
............... you paying attention Kent??
I've added 6 more pages of construction since my last update on here. Phil who runs the 2727 coupe out of Colo. has come over for a total of 4 days in that time and has helped me a lot.
Pretty soon I'm going to run out of things to do and I'm going to have to wire and plumb the motor. You ready to come over Stainless?
The new pages start here:
http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvillecar-2/construction%20page-79.html
and end here:
http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvillecar-2/construction%20page-84.html
Happy 1st everyone....it is a good one for me,
Sum
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Looks Great! Are you gonna make it in August?
Scott
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hey sum that's some great fab work
thanks for the web site and keeping us informed
happy new year
robbie
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Looks Great! Are you gonna make it in August?
Scott
I sure hope that it runs at least once this year. Kent said he wouldn't come help with the body until the snow is off the mountain behind town and the ice is off Lake Powell so we can catch some lobsters :evil:,
Sum
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Good to see the progress Sum. Having someone who knows what they're doing with the tig will get you fully up to speed in no time.
The car's looking great!
Pete
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man ide eat bout any thing but i'm thinkin a smart man wouldnt eat lake Powell lobster. Hey whos lakester is on those pages.?...looks like someone has been bored and finally started to work....LOL
kent
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Wow -
Your attention to detail on this car is astounding. Thanks for taking the time to photograph and write about it, and then share it with us.
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Sum,
It must be time for me to stay in the barn a little longer each day!
Looking good Sum! Looks like you found some very good help. :-D
I'd better get that care package of wire ready to send. Tell me what you need.
Harv
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Sum,
Your progress is looking good! Send me some of your car dimensions and I will try to draw up a couple of ideas for the body. I know that you really want to do something like Seth's old car with side pod so I probably can at least give some idea of what it may look like.
Rex
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Great work Sum'
never thought it would take this long huh?. Also , congratulations on the "Book of Lakester according to Sum"........you deserve to go well .
I'm thinkin' you'd be hard pressed to go past " The Lake Powell Lobster " as a name ..........rolls off the tongue nicely , imagine at the start line "next we have Sumner Patterson's Lake Powell Lobster Lakester runnin' in Thousand Island dressing class", could make for some great livery too......
I once had a side act that was known amongst those involved as the "Brown Trout Decoy Blues Band"....that was another thing altogether.... :roll:
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Sumner, looking good. You have been very busy lately. Looks at lot different than it did when I saw it in October. Keep up the great work.
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Thanks for the encouragement guys.
Rex the body is pretty much going to skin what is there and no more. I'll try and get some sketches other than those in my head up at some point.
Doc I'm still laughing about the new name and special class that I'll be running in. Sorry Stainless you guys won't be allowed in the Thousand Island class :evil:. My mom always asked how work was coming on the "bullet car" so in her memory it was named the Salt Bullet. Doc I never got that CD of your music you promised. Did it get sent to China for mass production or something??
Kent my goal every morning is to try and get something done to keep you off my ass :-P .
c ya,
Sum
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Sum
Don't worry about Kent getting on your ass. By the time he leaves San Diego and makes it the caves of Utah he will forget why he left the sandy beach's of California. However if he brings Dolan along you will be on your on to defend yourself because the gang up and cheat, don't seem fair but then again they are bikers. :-o
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Sum
being a pimple on your ass is my pleasure :-D Ya know i'm gonna be there to help strap ya in for your first pass...I'll probably cry like a little girl seeing you finally pull away
yours in sport...
Kent
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And I was just trying to figure out how to change the car to get in the Thousand Island class... :-D
The fresh water lobster in Powell are probably smaller than the ones in the lakes, and ditches in LA, no not Los Angles, Louisiana... when I lived down there we called them Mudbugs, in Wichita we call them bait... :roll:
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Sum,
Car's lookin' great! Can you please explain to me a little more about your front suspension? I was trying to figure out a way to do this for my project but didn't know how to go about it. How does it work?
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Sum,
Car's lookin' great! Can you please explain to me a little more about your front suspension? I was trying to figure out a way to do this for my project but didn't know how to go about it. How does it work?
(http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/temp-pictures/Front%20Suspension.jpg)
First we don't know if this suspension works yet as there are no springs in it and the car hasn't touched the ground yet. Now how will it hopefully work?? The front and rear work on the same principal and very similar to how torsion bars work on come circle track cars. At the end of axle is a bolt that the end of a lever arm sits on (lower right arrow). That arm is attached to a round tube that is supported on both ends with bearings mounted onto the front cross member (bottom left arrow). On the inboard end of the round tube is another lever arm (longer) that is vertical (third arrow to left on bottom). That lever arm has two sets of holes going up it. On the right side there is a spring bucket. On the left side of the lever arm is a shock (top left arrow and missing in the picture). The spring bucket on the right side (top right arrow) is hooked back through the middle of the spring to the lever arm. The left end of the spring bucket is attached to the frame (top right arrow). When the axle goes up (hits a bump) the outer lever arm goes up. That makes the inner lever arm move towards the front of the car and pulls on the far end of the spring collapsing it. That also compresses the shock on the other side of the lever arm.
Clear as mud??? Did you look at all the pages for the rear and front suspension?? Any more questions??
c ya,
Sum
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Yeah I saw the other pages. It sounds like a good idea! I would love to see it work! Are you going to be at Speedweek this year with that car?
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Yeah I saw the other pages. It sounds like a good idea! I would love to see it work! Are you going to be at Speedweek this year with that car?
I sure hope to and if for some reason the car isn't ready to run I would probably have it there to run through tech.
c ya there,
Sum