Rear Engine Modified Roadster Build

[mkilger]

Tony I know a good chassis guy 

[maguromic]

Mike, I still need to bring all the stuff for the '32 roadster down to you to get started.  Its just been a slow project and its been on the back burner, and besides I still need to figure out the suspension for it.  I talked to Foose and he is pushing me towards something Miller inspired like his P-32.  The engine is getting very close and only need the fuel injection (still looking at how to hide the electronics)  and oil pan fabricated. Maybe early part of next year we can start on it.  Tony

[38flattie]

That is wicked!

[mkilger]

Tony that sounds good, my wife works with Chip, we are  good friends and have worked with him on many projects.

[Peter Jack]

Just a plain ol' Chevy I see!

Looks like fun.

Pete

[maguromic]

For those of you that didn't get to go to the IMIS show in Indy last week, Woody sent these pictures of the 3D Vision Technologies booth with a model of the first iteration of the roadster. Tony

[38flattie]

Tony, Woody- That's pretty cool!

[interested bystander]

Kingler, Re: Chassis guy ; were you talkin about Ex-Boyd employee Al who built your rdstr?

Heard he's pretty buryied rite now.

But maybe you outta research the credentials that Tony has and the motorsports connections he's mentioned to me over the phone.

Methinks he's well set in the chassis dept!

[Tman]

Thats some cool stuff Tony! Woody does good work.

[mkilger]

Intersted bystander Al built  and set up my frame rails for me and made me a roller, he didnt build my roadster! but ya Al's a good chassis guy too.

[maguromic]

Thats some cool stuff Tony! Woody does good work.

Woody doses GREAT WORK!!!!!  We are going to try and get him a hat, and if I read all the tea leaves correctly we just might (that's if the salt gods let us).


IB, I just don't have the time to do my street roadster and all my friends that are local are committed to teams (for all of us to finish the REMR is a task).  Might as well let a friend do it and besides I really like Mike's work.  Tony

[SPARKY]

Tony, hats are only SLIGHTLY cooler than your roving avatars 

[mkilger]

tea leaves   classic thats funny Tony

[38flattie]

I've always been intrigued by the 'theoretical' meets the 'real world'

So much of what Woody does is theoretical, and proved only in computer simulations. With the vast amount of Woody's work going into the build, along with all the real world experience involved, it will be very interesting to see these computer simulations proved on the track.

Old world meets new world, with exciting results to come!

[maguromic]

We are very lucky to have both Woody and Steve on the team.  Steve literally has hundreds of hours in the wind tunnel while with TWR, Lola and Reynard and Woody has brought a dimension to the team that would have taken us hundreds of hours in the wind tunnel to get to.  Between both of them we are able to quickly test ideas to see if they will work or not. Recently Woody did some wheel spacing tests on the car to see how they interacted with the body.  This is something that would have been next to impossible to do without the CFD because the costs would have been prohibitive to build 5 sets of suspension parts and spend days in the wind tunnel to get the results we wanted.  The other great thing about CFD we are able to visualize how the air is moving.  If I didn't see it I would have said it's impossible for the air to move like that on a '27 roadster. This is a group project and with the input of all we have been able to optimize every inch of the car and not leave anything on the table. 

Buddy I agree with you, it should be interesting to see "old world meets new world".  Tony