Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

Well, looking at the weather channel, I'm clearly not in Utah, because it appears to be pissing down
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[Moxnix]

Grumm, I found more swag and had to give it to Wayno, as you'd fled the area.  You'll see it next time you drop in.

[Dr Goggles]

The very first time I went to the salt I met a guy camped next to us who was on his first trip to the salt and he brought a Hyabusa with him, a great guy, smart, funny and determined. Turned out he came from Numurkah , not far from where I'd grown up and he said "I'm Australia's southern-most rice grower".

Turns out his mum and my mum knew each other somehow, we've been friends since and I have watched as he has become one of the fastest guys on a sit on bike.

He ran a record at 253mph at Bonneville on the 10th, that's movin', I just spoke to him in Wendover and he's still buzzing and keen to start at the Shootout where he plans to "turn the wick up a little" and run faster still.

Congratulations Greg Watters , you're a bloody legend.!!!!!!!!!!

[Tman]

Yes, congrats to Greg! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats fast

[Dr Goggles]

Whilst the rest of the landspeed community is just getting to the end of Busy Time things are just starting to thaw at the Spirit of Sunshine possum park and landspeed laboratory.

I have just this minute got off the phone from Hugo at Hugo's Race Differentials. The rear end has been set up such that we can swap the ten bolt R&P sets. We will start with , are you ready?, EITHER the 2.56 or the 2.41:1 set.....see , there's nothing like suspense and I've been prattling along on this tired story for over two years now.......just when you thought we'd made a decision it has all been thrown up in the air.

Reassembly of the car will commence next weekend, a basic reassembly, some minor changes to the top of the cage and then paint......

So, just when you thought this years show was over .

[wobblywalrus]

Why not build two rear ends?  Switch them as needed.

[Dr Goggles]

 here on the way to the sandblasters is the frame and beside it the rear superstructure, you will notice that the rear end is not actually removable.....from the superstructure, it's just the way we did it.....

[Peter Jack]

I realize you've probably thought about it but I'm wondering why you don't cut the rear end free after the blasting but before the paint and then set it up so it's a bolt on? You could then build as many rear ends as you wanted and set them up so they bolted in the same place. With a little ingenuity you could probably work it so you wouldn't have to hardly bleed the brakes or maybe even not at all.

Pete

[Dr Goggles]

I realize you've probably thought about it

day and night

but I'm wondering why you don't cut the rear end free after the blasting but before the paint and then set it up so it's a bolt on?

Due to a sequence of decisions, mostly based around cost and simplicity(?) we have maintained the set up that has run straight and true at nearly 200mph, this is a GM housing and centre with Ford axle tubes,axles, brakes and wheels. there is no point making several of these monsters.

With a little ingenuity you could probably work it so you wouldn't have to hardly bleed the brakes or maybe even not at all.
Pete

As it is we'll be able to change the centre without getting too tangled up......

[Milwaukee Midget]

Ahh, Spring is in the air, and a young man's heart turns to thoughts of rear ends.

Any work on the sonic hydrocarbon converter?

[Dr Goggles]

Ahh, Spring is in the air, and a young man's heart turns to thoughts of rear ends.
Any work on the sonic hydrocarbon converter?

Any work that involves the device trusted with the job of converting hydrocarbons to sound is the Colonel's business.......Colonel?

[grumm441]

huh, what , who , where :|
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[SPARKY]

Yeah---whats going on down there---anyhow

[Dr Goggles]

Last night I got started on the helmet padding support for the rear of the cage, modelled up in cardboard and cut out of 3/16 aluminium sheet.I'm still debating what I am going to do with the bracing/gussetting on the top of the cage, tube gussetts or not, it is all about the side visibility.... I picked up the finished rear end, it is in the back of my wagon which is at the radiator place....because of the holed radiator....why no fix meself?...........hmmmmmmm, that car is transport and my spare time is better spent on other things...

[wobblywalrus]

In reference to your problems with figuring out which gear ratio to buy, pick the one that will give you the speed you need and build your engine to pull the gearing.  That is a difficult rear end to swap out.