Springfield Flyer.

[manta22]

Very nice work, Mike.

Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ

[tauruck]

Thank you Mark and Neil.

Got one done. Welded all round and inside on the lip.
Gave it a pass on the belt sander and thought it might have warped
but it took very little work to clean up.

Just hope I can duplicate the quality on #2.

[tauruck]

Flange bolted to the turbo.
Good thing I have small hands.

Stuck my hand inside and the flange needs to be worked a
bit on the long sides for smooth/matching transition.
The radii also need some flapper wheel treatment.

Some guys wouldn't bother but I'm stuck in my ways.
Maybe playing with 2 strokes had its upside?.

I'm impatient but pleased. No money but there's enough gas, welding rod
and Stainless to finish both headers.

[SPARKY]

Mike when I put the tubing in the V-trough it helped me "visualize" the cuts if I needed to cheat it a little for slight direction changes.

[tauruck]

Now I get what you meant.

Sometimes I'm an A$$. I should have asked for a pic.

I'm going to use your idea on the second elbow
and I'll post pics.

I've got one piece big enough (I think).

Thanks Sparky.

[tauruck]

Sparky, I never had the right material to use your advice.
I just built the second unit my way and it worked out OK.

I'll bolt it onto the turbo today and see how it fits.
I ran out of surgical gloves for the back purging so I
resorted to zip lock bags.

Pics later.

[tauruck]

Bolted on on flange to check for fit.

Pretty close and the luck with building stuff continues.

I thought working stainless using the torch would be tougher
but I guess if you never give up you'll eventually succeed.

I'm a really happy, lucky guy.

[tauruck]

The second unit bolted down.


NOW we need to get the turbos hung and mate the headers!!!!!!!.

Pray for me. I'll need it.

[SPARKY]

Mike,  I will be following your "hanging the turbos" closely  I chopped out most of what I had done previously.  Please take lots of picts---nice work man

Remember what the old folks said:  "The Lord mostly helps them that help themselves."

We know you will "Git'er done"

[Finallygotit]

Nice work Mike!!!

 

[sofadriver]

WOW!!
Nice work, Mike!

[lsrjunkie]

Looking good Mike! 

[tauruck]

Sparky, you're a mind reader I swear!!!!!!!!!

I hung the right side unit yesterday and it was clear that it would need to go up and back about 3" on both planes.

The "cold side" needs a pipe with a serious  "S" bend in it to clear the rocker cover to get to the point where I
can fit the shark gill type air intake on the body. I'm going with a system like the one Danny Thompson has.

I was bold enough to contact him last year and asked how his intake worked. He said he'd let me know after Test and Tune.
He did and I'm going with it.
Another example of the attitude of LSR guys. He didn't really have to reply but he did.

This packaging thing is getting old now and it's been said before but you look at a 40ft chassis and think there will be
lots of room. Yeah Right!!!!!

I don't have a finished car and my hat's off to anyone who ever built a liner, lakester or belly tank that turned a wheel let alone broke a record.
I wish I was a quitter. Honestly.

The Subaru never ends.

You're on the inside looking out and stuff you thought was 100% yesterday turns out to be a pile of junk.

A friend, Clive worked on Nissan GTR, Subaru, Mitsubishi Evo and BMW conversions was here yesterday.
He pointed out a few things on turbo installations I had no knowledge of and although it helped it only
complicated my issues.

I built plates with AN fittings for the turbo oil feed and return but they've gone AWOL.
They must be here somewhere but I can't find them.

We never had TV here when I was a kid but we used to go to the movies and there was this short
where the guy did all sorts of dumb stuff and the voice over guy called him a schlemiel.

That's me right now.

Thanks Finallygotit, Mike, Joe and Sparky. You keep me going.

The good news. Geoff Hoelsher from Electromotive got in touch and it's looking good. Thanks to Chris Conrad.
I'm off to Latham Engineering to collect the gas tank today.

The roller coaster ride continues.

Sparky I'll post pics of the turbo system a bit later.

[fordboy628]

Mike,

If you want to feel better, read the Milwaukee Midget build diary.    Chris has a car (although not a liner . . .) that he has put years (7? 9?) of effort into.   It is only recently that the da** thing has become sorted out enough & reliable enough to compete for the class record.   Not a sob story, just reality.   Some parts look great in the catalog, or when you "offer them up", but when you get to the fitting up point, it becomes obvious that it just won't work.    It's what we over here call: "Miller time".

So Chris gets to a competitive point, and you would think he would race it for a bit, right?    Nope, head first right back into the deep end with a engine swap, to an engine with known problems/limitations.

Proving that racers are the most optimistic people on the planet.    What I call:  "Optimisty"   As in they can't see the finish line because of the "foggy" future, but they are sure things will turn out alright.

I like hanging out with those types, at least they are not suicidal.

Homicidal maybe . . . . . . .

Just keep 
Fordboy

[tauruck]

My kinda guys. Seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc