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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1170 on: March 26, 2016, 11:30:09 PM »
Got the frame back from sandblaster / painter! If you live in PA and you need car frame or trailer blasted or painted, Jerry at Custom Application Specialist is your guy. He is a pleasure to deal with and does really nice work. Reassembly has already well underway.
We did settle on Fireball Mustard. It's actually a Caterpillar color but don't tell Tom Dollmeyer or Bruce Watson.
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1171 on: March 26, 2016, 11:36:54 PM »
As long as you went with yellow did you send the wiring with it for paint or are you painting it separately  :evil:
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1172 on: March 26, 2016, 11:53:22 PM »
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1173 on: March 26, 2016, 11:59:09 PM »

As long as you went with yellow did you send the wiring with it for paint or are you painting it separately  :evil:
(That's for my buddy Jimmy in AU...)  :cheers:

Well paint that separately! LOL!
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1174 on: March 27, 2016, 06:21:57 AM »
Rob, that looks awesome.
Lovely job and I love the colour. :cheers:
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1175 on: March 27, 2016, 11:24:45 AM »
As long as you went with yellow did you send the wiring with it for paint or are you painting it separately  :evil:
(That's for my buddy Jimmy in AU...)  :cheers:

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Don't you remember?   Wire color DOES NOT MATTER!!

Well, as long as you don't let the smoke out . . . . . . . .   :roll:

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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1176 on: March 27, 2016, 12:37:11 PM »
Mark, it doesn't matter what color the wire is as long as that color/coating is designed to go uniformly black and charred as soon as any current is passed through it, making it properly unidentifiable. :dhorse:
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NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1177 on: March 28, 2016, 11:53:04 PM »

Some pics of today's progress. We got the front suspension, Spindles, and slave cylinders installed.
We also got the wheels and kick panels back from Scotty Chop (our painter).
I feel so blessed to have such devoted and talented team members.

We also got the car loaded on the trailer as we will be doing another Educational event for the AWS tomorrow at the Carnegie Science Center.
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1178 on: March 29, 2016, 12:53:20 AM »
I remember when Target 550 frame was painted and reassembly started.

It was a powerful rush. All of a sudden it wasn't bare any longer.

Time flew and before long........it was done. What a feeling.

Thanks for sharing your exuberance with all of us.

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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1179 on: March 29, 2016, 09:04:22 AM »
That color looks right at home...I`m sure it`s in this thread somewhere, But what are those front tires made of ???  JB
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1180 on: March 29, 2016, 09:38:33 AM »
That color looks right at home...I`m sure it`s in this thread somewhere, But what are those front tires made of ???  JB

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NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1181 on: May 26, 2016, 12:59:06 PM »
We've been hard at it almost every night on getting her reassembled. We are just a few hours away from being ready to fire it up and starting to test new systems installed on car. This rebuild was both necessary and exhausting. We are all very tired.


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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1182 on: May 26, 2016, 01:23:20 PM »
Will there be cameras running to let us enjoy the firing up? :-D
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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1183 on: May 26, 2016, 02:28:34 PM »
Of course!


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Re: NACA 66 Special A/BGS
« Reply #1184 on: June 28, 2016, 07:28:53 PM »
Here is the video from last Monday's dyno session.
Here we are just showing last run at 10psi of boost. No hp number from dyno as they could not get a good crank signal but we really didn't care. We are just looking at tune and trying to beat up the transmission a bit to test if we got our planetary lubrication problem solved.
Dyno maxed out at 250 but we actually went about 272mph with unexpected tire growth and better than expected converter lockup at 3.5%.
By the time we are done I think we can get converter lockup under 2%.

https://youtu.be/0bYl--_Msp0


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