I thought I’d start a Landracing.com Bonneville build page for an Australian streamliner that I now help out on. The streamliner is owned by Trevor Slaughter and will compete in the F/BFS class. I’ve included it in the Bonneville build pages as there is every chance that it will eventually compete over there.
Trevor kicked off his build about 4 years ago after starting to design the car about 20 years ago. He recently decided to get the build in high gear and so advertised on the DLRA site for some help. So, we now have a “Build Night” every Tuesday evening where six of us get together to make brackets for stuff and work to assemble and disassemble the car as many times as possible.
So, the car. The streamliner is a very nice piece of work and will compete in the F/BFS class. F=under 3 litre BFS=BlownFuelStreamliner. The engine is a Toyota 2JZ with a largish turbo. The gearbox will be (it’s still in the delivery stage) a B&J 5 speed with pneumatic clutch engagement and CO2 shifting, the diff is a Winters quickchange.
This is how it looks. In fact this was a month or so ago and we've been madly fabricating mounts / brackets / firewalls etc since that time. You can see the twin parachute tubes at the rear under the push bar and the hole above the push bar is where the 5" exhaust will exit. The exhaust is a straight line from the outlet of the turbo. The canopy is up in this picture and is also pneumatically opened and closed. This can be done by the driver or by the crew outside the car. If the car crashes the air tank can be purged and the canopy pulled open.
This is the rear end. It has brakes fitted and these will only be used below 100mph with primary braking via the parachutes. The brakes will be activated by a hand lever in the cockpit and will be locked out above 100mph to prevent accidental activation. Another safety feature is the disengagement of the clutch if the driver lifts off the accelerator at speed. This is to prevent the rears potentially locking up. There is rear suspension activated by the pivot, there will be about an inch of travel front and rear.
Here’s the front:
The front is a beam axle held in place by a four link and twin shocks with remote reservoirs and adjusters. The rear shocks are the same. The Castor and King Pin angle are locked in and the rack is bolted to the axle.
Here’s a view of the exhaust:
Here you can see the twin Waste gates and the 5 inch exhaust pipe. Below the visible w’gate is the radiator for the engine. Up front there are 2 aluminium tubes that hold coolant and feed into an electric pump. The pump then pushes the coolant through the motor and radiator. Air will feed the radiator via a NACA duct near it in the bodywork. The other side of the car has an intercooler which will also be fed via a NACA duct.
Here’s the intake:
The cockpit looks like this:
We cut the top off a Kirke alloy seat so that the belts would go neatly over the Hans device and a headrest will be added later. The harness is a 7 point and it is a snug but comfortable fit for Trevor. The cockpit will be lined with ally sheet and covered with flameproof “carpet”. The pods on either side will hold some controls and equipment that do not need to be touched by the driver as they will not be accessible once the canopy goes down. The big yellow bottle is an air supply for the driver. The barely visible grey bottle is the CO2 for the shifter. The lever on the left is the brakes.
Here’s a photo with the exhaust in and the fin underway.
This is the maintenance panel which has the air purge(emergency dump), battery disconnect, air inlet, canopy up/down control and a few more ports for battery charger and engine oil preheater. In the background you can see the air tank and some of the canopy pneumatics.
I’ll update the build as we go. I’m also doing a build page on the DLRA site and Trevor has a website showing a rendering of the finished car at
www.slaughtermotorsport.comThanks
Lynchy
