Great trip to Hume's today except for the $124 ticket 2 miles from home.
I was going 52.8 feet per second and the limit was 36.6.
I will post several specific fotos tonight. Gotta start getting ready for the
journey to Mecca.
The model is sitting on it's custom constructed carrying case. The nose of the car
is the background. The car is so big in the shop that the only way I can get a foto
of the entire car in the frame is to use a 15mm lens on a Nikon F5. The 20 mm lens
on a Nikon D100 is like a 35mm on a film camera. These images are digital.
The exhaust pipes are double walled. The satinless outer shield had to be annealed to
be able to be bent on that radius. The inner pipes are positioned by the small pins that are
welded close to the end of the pipes. After the outer pipe was positioned, it was welded along
both sides of the splits. Then the trapazoidal piece at the very end of the pipe was welded
in place to keep the end of the weld from splitting. I didn't show the weld at the end very well.
I'll do a better image next time.
The detail of the front of the engine and the Whipple blower pulley are to show desotoman
the relationship of the blower to the front of the engine. The blower is driven off
of the back end instead of the front. Highly unconventional. Tom, Marlo will tell
you about it when he sees you. It's obvious that a lot of pieces aren't inplace.
Hume took a break and went out to feed the neighbors buffalo.