TonyG > New Race Car Build Thread
05-01-2013, 12:24 AM
#586
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...just kidding! It's a thing of beauty, Man!
05-04-2013, 09:49 AM
#590
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Hey, that's not a 944 dash! Don't you want to stay true to the original? J/K...
Whoever is doing the fabrication on your car is an artist.
In your oil system loop, do you have check valves to prevent everything from draining from the coolers and lines back to the sump when the engine is off? Just wondering what would happen if you started the engine with 17 quarts of oil in the bottom.
Whoever is doing the fabrication on your car is an artist.
In your oil system loop, do you have check valves to prevent everything from draining from the coolers and lines back to the sump when the engine is off? Just wondering what would happen if you started the engine with 17 quarts of oil in the bottom.
05-04-2013, 03:03 PM
#591
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Hey, that's not a 944 dash! Don't you want to stay true to the original? J/K...
Whoever is doing the fabrication on your car is an artist.
In your oil system loop, do you have check valves to prevent everything from draining from the coolers and lines back to the sump when the engine is off? Just wondering what would happen if you started the engine with 17 quarts of oil in the bottom.
Whoever is doing the fabrication on your car is an artist.
In your oil system loop, do you have check valves to prevent everything from draining from the coolers and lines back to the sump when the engine is off? Just wondering what would happen if you started the engine with 17 quarts of oil in the bottom.
We aren't using that dash. I'm not sure what dash we are using or if we'll just make one out of aluminum. That dash is out of a boxter race car that Vision is building. One of the guys was seeing if it would fit.
As far as the check valves go... the only check valved used is the one located after the location the Accusump T's into. This prevents the accusump from pressurizing the side that goes to the oil pump and keeps the pressure facing the engine.
As far as the oil coolers draining into the engine. Not gonna happen. They would have to drain all the way to the back of the car, through the oil filters, then past the oil pump in the engine, then back to the oil pan. Plus... once the oil thermostat cools down to below 180F, it shuts which further prevents any oil from leaving the oil coolers and associated lines.
TonyG
05-06-2013, 01:55 PM
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Rarely post, but I'm following this with great interest. Working on an LS6 951 myself, though not a track car. But I've still gotten some ideas just from all the work here. Amazing to see the transformation going on here, can't wait to see the final result!
Question - the ducting for the radiator, I'm assuming there's going to be a duct towards the front of the hood that will serve as the outlet, so air goes in through the air dam, through the rad, and out the hood duct? Any ideas on what that duct's going to look like?
Question - the ducting for the radiator, I'm assuming there's going to be a duct towards the front of the hood that will serve as the outlet, so air goes in through the air dam, through the rad, and out the hood duct? Any ideas on what that duct's going to look like?
05-06-2013, 02:51 PM
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a. and have you decided on what wood you're running for the new (very large) trophy case?
or
b. going to a museum and no new trophy case?
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b. going to a museum and no new trophy case?
05-22-2013, 06:57 PM
#597
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We just got rid of ours after discovering that the tie rod pushing on it an an angle was causing the rack to rotate.
You would grab the wheel and turn the wheel, and there was slop created by the rotation of the rack. Not sure why none of us caught this until a couple of weeks ago.
Anyway... I'm not sure how your adapter is not pushing to rotate the rack, but ours is.
So yeah... we have some changes to make.
Just glad we caught it now rather than later.
TonyG
05-22-2013, 07:19 PM
#598
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I have custom uprights so it is likely that the steering arm geometry is better than your setup. My steering arms have uniballs in both ends. Maybe your arms were binding and causing the adapter to rotate.
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05-22-2013, 07:25 PM
#599
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Now I saw the picture. I think my uprights are designed with the arm more in line with the rack. Hard to tell from your pic but it seems the 996 upright have the pickup further to the front that would cause side forces which rotates the adapter/rack.
05-22-2013, 10:44 PM
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It's clearly the angle of the tie rod.
But when we sat there and really looked at it.... even if the tie rod was perfectly straight so there would be no side loading on the adapter, once the wheel went up or down or left or right, the angle of the tie rod changes so that there will be side loading. It's impossible for there not to be side loading because the angle can vary so much.
Anyway.... this setup is a no-go for me.
Just sucks that it's this late in the game when I'm trying to pull it all together.
And this is one reason why they use a cup-and-ball for the tie rod attachment point at the rack. (no way for the tie rod to rotate the rack)
TonyG