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Offline Peter Jack

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #105 on: November 01, 2011, 01:58:55 PM »
Just remember it's not structurally sound at 200 mph. For that you require genuine made in America Duct Tape (difficult to find these days). :-o :-o :-D

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« Reply #106 on: November 01, 2011, 02:20:15 PM »
And here I thought I needed to WELD that stuff!?

A note about welding, did you know that steel stays hot for over an hour? :-o Don't ask me how I know :oops:
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Offline Peter Jack

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #107 on: November 01, 2011, 02:31:48 PM »
Only if you're going to touch it! :evil: :evil:

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #108 on: November 01, 2011, 02:51:12 PM »
Quote from: Peter Jack on November 01, 2011, 02:31:48 PM
Only if you're going to touch it! :evil: :evil:

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Like that scene in Raiders of the lost Ark :-D
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #109 on: November 03, 2011, 05:37:23 PM »
Got two more tubes bent today. The rear helmet tubes. Left em long to trim. Need to get a caouple tubes under me to fine tune driver position so we can bed up the front helmet hoop. Special thanks to Tony/maguromic for lending me his drawing to work off of. I am in contact with Lee Kennedy to make sure all is Kosher. And Nathan is watching me as well, right Nate? :-D
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Offline 4-barrel Mike

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #110 on: November 03, 2011, 05:43:03 PM »
If your wife isn't going to come back with the camera, let me know, I have an extra.

PICTURES, DAMN IT!  :evil:

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #111 on: November 03, 2011, 05:49:39 PM »
She is back, thats how I posted the last ones! Plus I am still in town, not home yet :-D
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #112 on: November 03, 2011, 10:59:36 PM »
For Mike, not much but hand cut Miters/copes and the bent tubes. Also have a pal blasting my wheel parts as we speak. Got a good support group around here! :cheers:





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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #113 on: November 03, 2011, 11:15:16 PM »
Hey Mr Stink-Bug,
expect a protest to be lodged, yeah, the guy in the white one. :wink:
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #114 on: November 05, 2011, 12:17:11 PM »
Got all my wheel parts blasted last night. Have to order the front hoops and will be able to build! Got the jig ready and will try and make the things as close to perfect as I can. Cant wait to play withthe dial indicator.

Also going to try and make patterns for the rest of the helmet hoops. That will allow me to bend those up this week. I think we are going to build the cage around the ISP padding? Looking at thier specs right now.

I always forget how fast you eat up tubing when building something :oops: I have torn through the first two sticks already and will have to buy another, and thats without making any mistakes, yikes!
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #115 on: November 05, 2011, 06:31:33 PM »
Playing with position and making measurements and patterns for the rest of the cage. Darn, who built this thing so small!? :-D Thats my brother modeling the thing. He is driver #2, Jangleguy is #3 and the smallest of us. And yes I know the open face is not Kosher, we were getting ideas and spacial relationships today, nothing more. Gotta find a home for the fire bottles though, no room in front of us!









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Offline saltwheels262

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #116 on: November 05, 2011, 06:42:48 PM »
a full face helmet may position his head at a different angle.
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #117 on: November 05, 2011, 06:48:27 PM »
Trent, as the new helmets are larger and have Hans device clips as well as the air intake allow for this in the hoops and the padding. We had to make changes in the 444 car and if the Turbinator is to run again the whole upper roll cage will need to be changed as well as the body around it. Can you mount the two fire bottle above the legs on each side of the steering shaft.Just thoughts.
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Offline Tman

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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #118 on: November 05, 2011, 06:58:14 PM »
Thanks for the input, the helmet pic was more for fun. I had the measurements for a full face here for reference, again, this is only the first step. I am working on patterns for the upper hoops, we were only trying to figure out if the thing would work. Nothing is even tacked at this point. I have a good helmet that I did not get a chance to borrow, we will have it when we start fitting the hoops. You can see we played with padding and such behind the back. 1st step, nothing written in stone yet.

Glen, that is one option I am looking at as I type this. If I curve the upper cross braces on the frame like a shot of AckAttack I have, there may be enough room above the legs. Also using the pictures of Anthony Youngs new car as reference since it was an example of a "fat" lakester that the Tech guys got learned on  :-D :wink: I jest, but from the cage forward that car is basically what we are building and I recognize the quality of the build! :cheers:
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Re: Spirit of South Dakota Lakester
« Reply #119 on: November 05, 2011, 08:12:46 PM »
on the Ratical I  at one time had the fire bottles mounted one on top of the other,right behind my back, horizontally from side to side using the fire wall to mount them to
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