Australian Belly Tank

[wobblywalrus]

Those redback spiders have a bizarre sex life.  I hope you guys do not watch them too close and get any ideas.

[Dr Goggles]

it ain't that unusual

Didn't see a red-back all day....but everywhere there were Daddy Long Legs spiders which are a natural predator of the red-back.......seems the natural scheme of boom and bust is well under way.............

We spent the day cleaning up the shed and the frame. We took the floor off ( it wenton before the whole lot got painted)and hoisted the frame into the air and tipped it on it's side cleaned up all the rusty bits and then gave them a thick slop of zinc-oxide primer....here's the Rev daubing away

.....no powder coating here folks.

And to T-Man, Geo and anyone else who is wondering we are flood free here( Sunshine, Melbourne eastern end, down the bottom). Queensland , the North Eastern corner of the country is under ten feet in the dry places and more in the rest.............

[ben james]

lifestyles of the poor & infamous

[Milwaukee Midget]

I'm liking this chain hoist arrangement.  Seems "the shed" is better equipped than its diminutive name might imply. 

Half the battle is having the proper tools at your disposal.

And for all the advantages that powder coating and high tech paints may provide, as frequently as cars like these are disassembled, I'm agreeing with you on the Rembrandt method.

[Peter Jack]

The fact is that if you think you're ever going to add brackets or modify the chassis in any way that involves welding you'll be very thankful that you chose paint over powder.

Pete

[Tman]

The fact is that if you think you're ever going to add brackets or modify the chassis in any way that involves welding you'll be very thankful that you chose paint over powder.

Pete

Glad to hear all is well.

Yup, powder is nice until you need to change something.

But, aound these parts you look a 4wds with powdercoated tube bumpers (hot 80s style) and the salt has attacked the metal UNDER the powder making a nasty rotten mess!

[generatorshovel]

Those redback spiders have a bizarre sex life. 

Not unlike our Doc 

[Dr Goggles]

Those redback spiders have a bizarre sex life. 

Not unlike our Doc 

You said you'd never tell!

Today I had a chat to a man about a fuel injection dog.......... more accurately he is a fuel injection specialist and suggested we use 440cc injectors and use an adjustable fool pressure reg.....

Anyone have anything they'd like to say about adjustable regs , he suggested SARD, there seem to be lots of cheaper ones....do tell....

[SPARKY]

Noonan knows more about tuning by adjusting fuel pressure than anyone I know of.  As I understand it, he gets a good INITIAL tune on the eng after assembly---then basically tunes by changing the fuel pressuer based on previous experience and reading the plugs to adjust fuel pressure to track and current conditions.

[Rex Schimmer]

Doc,
There is a company "Airflow Performance" that makes variable pressure fuel injection. I heard about it on the "Fuel Injection" forum. Their systems are for airplanes and probably costly but variable pressure control does work.


BTW, there is a "law:" by someone that says:
"Work expands to fill the time alotted." and it looks like you are making sure this law is working!!! Your meet is only a couple of months away and you look like you have about 6 months of work. Hang in there!!

Rex

[Dr Goggles]

BTW, there is a "law:" by someone that says:
"Work expands to fill the time alotted." and it looks like you are making sure this law is working!!! Your meet is only a couple of months away and you look like you have about 6 months of work. Hang in there!!
Rex

We don't agree on everything Rex, but you hit the nail on the head there....I have to draw on some of the blind faith that got me through the initial build right now because I coming from waaaaay back

[Milwaukee Midget]

Divide and conquer - get out the chalk board/clip board - stay to task - most of the decisions have been made - 75 days with a crew of 3 - this is doable.  I was still waiting for my tub at that point.

Of course, we won't discuss my time slip . . .

If I've been keeping it straight, it's a Grummy built short block already under construction, new heads, fuel delivery, rear end courtesy of SPARKY, and some tidying, yes? 

And of course, your sending flowers to your slow suppliers . . .

Will the present pump keep up with the 440 injectors?

Sprinkle in a few trips for work, a few gigs at the pub, a couple of "honey-do" days - you're still golden.

[Dr Goggles]

Not putting the new rear end in for this meet, we'll be looking at that later in the year.

The motor build hasn't started at all, the balancers don't open again until next Monday.

I'm about to order the injectors and reg. Yes the pump will keep up it's one of the Bosch externals, from memory a 910 or 044...can't remember which off hand but they both support over 450hp.

The guy who the injectors came from is all in a lather about our de-stroked build, he runs Pro-stock so he's all about NA power, he runs a destroked motor.........

This weekend I have a write up to do at the Kustom Nationals at Phillip Island, and then a gig with the girls....... Not much time for the car this weekend...also looking at buying Steve Barnett's F250 as a tow-vehicle.....so much to do, so little time...

As for Honey-do we finally moved back into the lounge room which had been redecoratedI did a worse paint job than on the car, and that's sayin somethin), haven't finished the hall yet but at least we don't have the contents of the biggest room jammed into every single space in the rest of the house....


...and then there's all the flower arranging to do.

[Reverend Hedgash]

I'm liking this chain hoist arrangement.  Seems "the shed" is better equipped than its diminutive name might imply. 

Half the battle is having the proper tools at your disposal.

That chain hoist is lent by team member Pete Quick and it has been well used. There is no way the shed roof would hold the car so we built an A-frame out of scaffold tubes that were given to me to use as lighting poles for a play I produced. So scavenged and borrowed. We do have some steel on the car from something stolen so that about completes the trade barter methods...

The shed is a shed in the most rudimentry sense. There is no glass in the window and it is hot in summer, cold in winter, the floor is not level, and there is shimming distance only around the car. I did do a design for a funky new shed but better the money went into the car (and Dr G's impending nuptuals...)


rH+

[grumm441]

If I've been keeping it straight, it's a Grummy built short block already under construction, new heads, fuel delivery, rear end courtesy of SPARKY, and some tidying, yes? 

I just got back from the other end of the continent.(the south west end) 3700 mile round trip. and what I learned was that the dirt roads in West Aus are better than the paved roads where I live.
went to place where the beach is white as the salt and came back with sunburn in the same spots. The VW ran perfectly and I only lost one tyre on the pt Augusta Iron Knob road.
The motor will be on the go on Monday.
G