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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #390 on: February 28, 2020, 11:33:14 PM »
Pup, I can help here a little, John is almost my neighbor and we were planning to run on each others records in a little competition the 18 WoS... we wrecked the Bockscar, so I was John's crew chief instead of his opponent, trying to help him take my G gas record.  John owns the G (120 inch) fuel record with his previous car.... hence G/F Lakester.  He had the G gas (G/GL) record until I took it... Bonneville competition is kinda friendly... although those Roadster guys fight a lot...  :? OK, just kidding.... calm down guys...  aktion086
Anyway that is what is going on there....  :cheers:
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #391 on: February 28, 2020, 11:40:54 PM »
Sorry... us old guys get sidetracked easily.... the rockers are intentionally more than 1:1... the idea is if you limit  your axle to 1 inch of total movement, your shocks don't really have a chance to be effective... to small of an area... BUT...
if you make the shock move almost twice as much the suspension is has a better chance of controlling the axle...
That is my target... so just guessing here.... but I'd bet John would tell that is why.....















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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #392 on: February 29, 2020, 04:08:58 PM »
Oh I get it, it was G FUEL Lakester, not G 120c.i. AND F 180c.i. engine sizes..
And thanks of the rocker info...
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #393 on: February 29, 2020, 04:52:28 PM »
Puppy:

Stainless pretty much covered all your questions. The G/F designation was for a single engine running for ?G? class gas and fuel records.

Radius rods pointed in opposite direction from what may be considered conventional, was to gain a little space for possible changes going forward. I borrowed this configuration from Stainless?s Bockscar 1.

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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #394 on: February 29, 2020, 09:40:08 PM »
Thanks guys!!!
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #395 on: March 01, 2020, 01:40:42 PM »
Oh I get it, it was G FUEL Lakester, not G 120c.i. AND F 180c.i. engine sizes..
And thanks of the rocker info...
Although sometimes on the vehicle, folks don't put a / in the class designation, the first letter designates the engine size class and is AA to K. After the / comes G or F for fuel designation preceded by a B if blown. Then the body class lettering P, GC, Alt, CC.S, L etc and then you throw in various V, X's,O's C's and such for other categories(engine and body). It sure can get complicated for a newbie but after a while actually makes sense...?sorta.  :roll:  :cheers:
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #396 on: March 02, 2020, 12:11:47 AM »
... and then there are bikes....

opps back to the subject of the thread... some guy building a lakester in Wichita....  really... aktion086  :laugh:
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #397 on: July 22, 2020, 09:16:46 PM »
Well, now that World of Speed has been canceled and I don't have enough time to prepare the lakester for Speed Week, I can relax getting a few things done on the car. Aside from all the obvious things learned from 2017, finishing off the final three feet completing a better aero package (according to the Darko wind tunnel), has taken quite a bit of time. Like most things of this type, several iterations were considered, then discarded, to the point where I had to shoot the engineer and start building. As it turned out, that was a good way to begin. Bad ideas presented themselves quickly and better ideas emerged. So, I began at the bottom with a triangle and worked my way up.

I wanted to retain both push bar and parachute tether locations as they had worked well in 2017 but everything had to expand three additional feet. Images are better than any words I can muster so here are a few. I am limited to 500 KB total image size so I may have to post the rest in another posting or two.

John 
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #398 on: July 22, 2020, 09:24:20 PM »
Here are the rest of the images. Once the 3/16" thick aluminum plate belly pan is bolted in, I should have a very rigid and hopefully, better aero structure. Rex, don't let Duke see my welding (LOL).

Stainless water jet cut access doors a couple of years back and now that I have nearly closed off the back end, they needed to be installed. Not the most perfect perimeter cuts but will spruce them up before color goes on.

John
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #399 on: July 23, 2020, 10:54:29 AM »
That's a tiny machine for a 500" Keith Black hemi!

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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #400 on: July 23, 2020, 11:25:07 AM »
Hah! Good catch, Stan. I corrected my error. Huuum, a 500? KB in my little lakester...naw, won?t fit. Heck, even I don?t fit in it any more.

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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #401 on: July 23, 2020, 12:27:57 PM »
Too small.... oh come on... one of those big hemi's will fit in anything if you work at it.... this is not a photoshop shot... actual pic from when we a question to the SCTA about frame sizes... got a quick  'NO WAY we will let you run that".... it's all part of the fun...
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #402 on: July 23, 2020, 12:36:11 PM »
So, the insanity really DOES run that deep.

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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #403 on: July 23, 2020, 12:41:30 PM »
We had one laying around out of the dragster.... soooooo who knew it would fit....  :cheers:
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Re: G/F class lakester in Wichita, Kansas
« Reply #404 on: July 23, 2020, 01:20:59 PM »
You had a dragster, Stainless?

John