Shootout 2013

[trimmers]

If the Shootout is now scheduled for Monday, Oct. 7, is the drivers' meeting now scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 6?

[rlague]

Sam attching oil return line to the new ceramic bearing turbo

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Sam in shop.

Body after fresh paint and new sponsor signage

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Weismann custom trans.  Low gear for starting and delivers power to jack shaft.  Rear suspension is multiple machined pieces.

Intake plenum and throttle body with injector mounts.

[Freud]

Art expressed with metal.

FREUD

[rlague]

front water tank carries ice water for the air to water inter cooler.  A heat exchanger connects the engine cooling system to the ice water system but the fluids stay separate.

frint wheel is solid aluminum no tire.

[Texican]

Here's a "Heads up" for our friends coming to the Shoot out from the East:
Utah is actually increasing the speed limit from Exit 99 (Tooele) to the state line; now you can run 80 with no fear.
That is, if the signs are posted.
Won't save a lot of time, but a few minutes here and there can add up.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56883181-90/mph-speed-hull-zones.html.csp

Leave it to the Tribune to hit the wrong key!    -^-

Jim

[rlague]

Long wide view of shop with sam Pondering corner.  Body still in green.

Swingarm pieces back from first machining.  Sam designs everything in CAD so his drawings can be uploaded to CAM machining.

New chassis pieces.  Aluminum lattice is water jet cut.

[rlague]

Art expressed with metal.

FREUD

Sam is amazing!  It is ART!  Thanks for noticing.

He schemes all this and draws is and makes it........and then drives the liner.     He has farmed out pieces like the pulleys that are pretty exotic, and the water jet cutting and billet machining only because he does not have the equipment.  He fortunately has a shop next door where Joe does great CAM work and aluminum fabrication.  He knows what transmission, suspension, MoTec guys to trust.

His MoTec system for example measures all engine functions and all suspension funtions and measures everything you can imagine.  Even has GPS and HD camera in the cockpit to monitor Sam!

[Peter Jack]

What a gorgeous job of functional fabrication. Art for sure!

Amazing work Sam!!! 

Pete

[Freud]

It's going to be almost impossible to achieve todays quality with a cutting torch and a bench grinder.

FREUD

[superleggera]

front water tank carries ice water for the air to water inter cooler.  A heat exchanger connects the engine cooling system to the ice water system but the fluids stay separate.

When I visited with Sam in early 2012, he was still imagineering how everything would work in the front with the tanks.  Additional weight is needed to offset the amount gained at the rear with Weismann gearbox and a few other items changed/added.

Thanks for posting of the pictures!

[Elmo Rodge]

It's going to be almost impossible to achieve todays quality with a cutting torch and a bench grinder.

FREUD

Yeah. You need modern stuff like I've got. My mill is a 12" disk sander and my band saw is one of those HF hand held jobs clamped to my bench.  I'm obviously not in the same class as those guys but doggonit I'm running.  Wayno

[rlague]

New rear wheel and rear sprocket.  Sprocket was wire EDM machined.

Detail of jackshaft and rear of trans on the left.

[DND]

That is very neat stuff but it is kind of a sad note that racing is so hi-tech now, and moved away from the good old hot rodding like us racers did in the past and still do now too

G Don