Springfield Flyer.

[Rex Schimmer]

Just to comment on Mike's comment that making a foam seat is not as easy as it looks, back around 1982 I was working for Interscope Racing and we were at Sears Point in Northern Cal. Well JP Racing (JP stood for John Paul) had a Lola T600 and the old man John Paul though that Junior (John Paul Junior) need to have a foam seat and JP being something of a know it all a$$ hole decided to do it himself. When he was done Junior was trapped in the car, took them about 30 minutes to cut him out and at least another 2-3 hours to clean all of the excess foam out of the Lola cockpit!!! Lucky that Junior had his driving suit on as it was pretty hot! Now back to Mike's build.

Rex

[Buickguy3]

  Is he out of jail yet? [But that's another story].

[tauruck]

Rex, back in the 80s I needed a seat for my F2 car so my manager Martin and I decided to do it ourselves.

We mixed the two part foam and poured it into a big garbage bag. It was going great until the foam started coming over the top of the bag.

He started shouting "lean forward, lean forward". I did and although we'd averted a huge mess the result was a seat made for the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Today is D day. If the bead thing doesn't work it's back to PU foam.

[Peter Jack]

I wish I was there Mike. It really is pretty easy but you need a helper or it may be nearly impossible. You need to be in the seat so the other person can see what's happening and make the necessary adjustments. Two helpers may even be better if there's a lack of experience. Get it around your hips, chest and shoulders and it should come up between your legs a little. It should extend down almost to your knees. Don't worry about it being too much because that's what trimming's for. You may even want to try the empty bag before you put the beads in to see if it's large enough to catch all the areas. Don't give up on the beads. It's a far superior seat and the extra support is well worth it if you do take a tumble.

Pete

[tauruck]

Pete, if you ever need a vacation and need a place to chill during the cold winter up in the NH you're welcome here.
I'm serious. I'd be honored. Our summers are good.

You know your stuff, you're a good friend, love dogs and we have room.

I tried one on my own, one with the other half helping (we had it right but I wanted it better) and I screwed the pooch so today I'll try again.

[SPARKY]

that NH reference is not New Hampshire     we just had Shark Week on TV  lots of the stories were from the SH

[tauruck]

He he he, no Sparky. I mean't Northern Hemisphere but we do have a few small sharks a couple of clicks down the road.

This one was caught in the nets not too far from where I "used" to fish off a fishing ski.

A friend of a friend works at the Sharks Board and sent the pic but I couldn't get a single tooth from him.

You can get locked up here just for hooking and landing a GW.

The fishing ski thing is in the past.

[tauruck]

No seat works today.
Too many visitors.

I instead finished the front tow dolly system.

It still needs a little TLC but it works.

[tauruck]

The cut down Harley hub was turned to fit the collar I welded into the chassis.
After that I cut some nice 8mm Ally plate to build a mounting.
Welded on some thick brackets and cut and drilled the plate to fit.

Looks OK and tomorrow I'll test functionality.

[lsrjunkie]

Looks pretty trick to me Mike. Should work well.

[Buickguy3]

  One thought, Mike, The Harley hub bearings were setup to handle a radial load, and now they are in a thrust mode. They will get pounded pretty hard going across the Salt. Just a thought.
    Doug 

[tauruck]

Thanks Doug, that thought did cross my mind but the other option was to just use nylon bushings.
I'll check with my sponsor on a suitable bearing solution but I'm still a long way off.
This bearing situation is always tough. We're full up on all things metric and every time I need Imperial
it takes months.
I want to get all the welding done on the chassis so we can paint it.

[Stainless1]

Mike, you Harley hub may have metric bearings already... I would try it before I scrapped the idea or swapped bearings. 
 

[tauruck]

Thanks Bob, these are definitely 1" ID.
All my axles (Harley) are 1".
I have piles of parts I'm probably never going to use so I cannibalized
a few. Anyone need 40 rear sprockets?. I'm selling.

[tauruck]

Packaging, packaging!!!!!!

Where to put all the equipment?.

Guys build twin engine liners and they get everything to fit and I can't seem to find space for anything lately.
This is where building this car becomes difficult as a solo effort.
You really need two guys to figure things.
My "crew" have families and I don't expect them to be here after working hours.
Fabrication is pretty straightforward but figuring where to mount things is the game breaker.

The good news is that my 15" front wheel outers have arrived from Germany.
Going over to Markus  in the next day or so to sort out the centers.
Once that's done I can get the hubs machined.