BB Bonneville Bugeye

[Dr Goggles]

I'll be interested to see what that nose does to the air in the tunnel.
FREUD

I'm curious too, is it based on a successful similar weight car ?

it it attempt to not load the front excessively?

Did you decide against a parabolic curve for any specific reason?

[hotschue]

Dr G.....We looked at a lot of nose design from existing lsr cars.....we put alot of thought in the design and decided early on that we would test it at A2.....yes, most of the cars we looked were heavier and more powerful, we scaled BB down to our speed projections and power as a starting point (G eng. class, normally aspirated for SW '10). Larger engine combinations are a possibility in the future.

Udo

[hotschue]

Update......Spent past weekend trying to figure a few things out....wanted to bolt in SBC to scale car....pan was to deep, so we did the next best thing, and NO it's not a sidewinder....will bolt in real engine next week.  Body fabrication about 99%, will do body work on rear section this weekend. BB  body will be in final form and finished within the week.  Couple of random pics.  Next week will be busy, A2.

[Milwaukee Midget]

This is just awesome.  Well done!

Don't want to get the cart too far before the horse, but I think you're close enough to done to ask . . .

Color?

[jacksoni]

Well since Udo's first Bonneville car was yellow and my car is yellow and he wants to do second best to a black carbon fiber nose so paint the nose black...... no, is not going to be yellow so it gets called pencil! Tired of yellow.....Gonna have to hoist a few to figure that one out.

[hotschue]

Its been a busy week, plan to load car and head for Mooresville, N.C. tomorrow.  Thursday we have a date with A2 Wind Tunnel see if the last years work was worthwhile.  Have a long list of things we're going to try and hope for a positive result.

[Peter Jack]

Lookin' good Udo. No tufts on the nose?

Pete

[hotschue]

PJ,  Soon as I wash the fiberglass release agent off the nose tape will stick.....

[SPARKY]

ooooh that has to be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peter Jack]

The wind tunnel wil be for sure. Wish I was there.

Pete

[hotschue]

Just returned from A2 Wind Tunnel, Mooresville, N.C..  Had to be one of the rewarding and eye opening experiences I've had.  In anticipation of the test, we ran 26 of them in 4 1/2 hrs., I prepared wicker bills, gurney flaps, spoiler extensions and lower air deflectors.  One by one they all ended up in the dumpster....we fabricated a lot of stuff on the fly with fiber board. Thanks to Keith T., "The wizard of the razor knife, fiber board and racer tape"......all I heard in the background was "OK! What's next".  To make a long story short the BB body was very well balanced with no lift or drag issues we couldn't correct with a little bit here or there.  Absolute "Hats Off" to Dave at A2, my friends who really worked their buts off, Charles (Cajun Kid) and K. Turk (ECTA) and Jack Iliff who coordinated the numbers from the control room. Jack called the changes and data logged all the information.  It will take us a week to digest what we have learned.....a couple of random pics, once the action started I did not have a lot of time to shoot pictures.  There were plenty of cameras present hope to cordinate album. 

[Milwaukee Midget]

Glad to hear your tests got you good and usable results, and it's good to see this car with somebody standing next to it for scale.  Yeah - this one is going to rock. 

[krusty]

Keith looooves to go to the tunnel...plus, he has good ideas and is quality help. He came up to play at A2 when we ran our new RMR through there last year.  Good to see you broke Charles in; it'll make things easier for him when he takes the 'Stude (and easier for me if I go there to help him). We sure are fortunate to have this facility available to us on the East Coast; it's some of the best $$ you can spend on your LSR project. The Bugeye looks good.     vic

[Cajun Kid]

Udo,

Thanks again for allowing me to assist in the tunnel.  I sure learned alot and it was a pleasure to be there to assist in some small way.  TURK is the man,,, what a work-a-holic... he was taping the headrest fairing on twice as fast as I was,,,  I wanted my part to LOOK good,,, he wanted it DONE,... great to be there and glad you got all that good data,,,, Jack was a slave driver,,, great day .

See ya soon.

Charles

[jacksoni]

 "Jack was a slave driver"

Well we were up to the $500/hr time so wanted to move things along.......

Thanks for your suggestions and help, Charles.