[TheForge] Driving Machines - WAS: Sound proofing a shop

[Roy Wilson]

======= On 2005-08-12, at 01:45:13 Mike Spencer wrote: =======

>Roy> Around 30 years ago, I saw the ultimate "Screw the Joneses" in a
>Roy> rail station parking lot.
>Roy>
>Roy>    A Maserati *station wagon*.
>
>Too bad you didn't snap a pic with your digital cam. :-)
>
>When I first moved here in 1969, there was a Rolls Royce pickup truck

	Well, it's not a Maserati, but it'll leave them in the dust...  "My Summer Project".

	We've been working on this for seven weeks, today we finished and dropped it down on the tires.  The only thing left to do is buy a seat that will fit the driver and haul it on down to the track:

	http://home.twcny.rr.com/roywilson/Mod/

	Half a dozen or so pics there from a week or three back, I've got a pile of images, but they're still in the camera at the shop where we've been building it.

	The driver is the 14 year old son of the guy who owns my local steel shop, and he's been racing since he was four - from the smallest class of Karts up through Legend and MiniMod classes.

	The F-OPEN.jpg file is for those here who disdain arc welding - I'd like to see THAT forge welded - it's all 0.065 DOM racing tube.:)

	He bought an engineless Mod that had taken a bad hit in the front end.  He was going to rack it on the hydraulics and try to pull it back into square, but cracked a weld right off doing so.  I cut most of the front end away with the O/A torch, bent up new and MIG welded them in.  You can see the tubing bender I used at the right rear of the frame.  Note to anyone bending a lot of tubing (*not* pipe) - don't buy a manual bender.  This one ratchets and is one of the better manuals available, and works just fine for a couple of bends.  After the fifth bend, you start thinking about how you can power the ratchet off the shop air system... :/

	For the motorheads here, it's a 350-8 Dirt Modified, 350 Chevy (out of my old '76 sand racing Blazer), 487X heads performance worked, and I had it HP tested when we sent it out for balancing.  Using CAM2 racing fuel, when the Holley 4177DP secondaries kick in it develops 462 horsepower.

	50' away in the open you can FEEL the engine sound in your chest.

	I labeled the shifter gears as FAST and DAMNED FAST. :)

"Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris." - Xanthippos

Roy Wilson - rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com
2005-08-12