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Mar 14, 2020 13:24:15 GMT
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Nice work as usual, with this much Nitrous you will be laughing all the way to the finish line!!
Sorry I will get my coat.....
Glad about more still pictures, personally I don't have the time to watch videos and generally skip past them
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jonomisfit
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Mar 14, 2020 17:04:33 GMT
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Will you also have a water spray on the inter cooler?
With water then gas spray it should have a huge temperature drop through it.
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Mar 14, 2020 18:33:50 GMT
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well 5l of water weighs in at 5kg, plus the container and plumbing system. the weight gain probably wouldn't justify the "loss" in power from the cooling effect.
just imagine how many more speed holes etc would be required for 5kg plus
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jonomisfit
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Mar 14, 2020 20:17:49 GMT
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5ltrs is a lot of water. Especially if its drag focused.
You usually run these things on a temp switch so they don't use a huge amount.
The ones ive seen on rally cars look sub 1ltr.
With latent heat effects liquids are very good for pulling out heat. Gasses you usually need a lot of flow.
From a standing start at boost, preceded by a burn out, theres opportunity for a lot of heat build up. A good soaking before the run should see a big drop in intake temp, evaporation is effective.
It's why you see some rally cars having a "wee" on the start line. Intercooler getting a good dousing of water keeping temps down before the start, once running the airflow becomes effective and the intercool spray only tends to come on if intake temps start to rise.
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Mar 14, 2020 22:17:56 GMT
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Will you also have a water spray on the inter cooler? With water then gas spray it should have a huge temperature drop through it. No, adding water both adds extra weight and risks being pulled from the start line if the car dribbles on to the track (drag strip).
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Mar 14, 2020 22:19:38 GMT
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well 5l of water weighs in at 5kg, plus the container and plumbing system. the weight gain probably wouldn't justify the "loss" in power from the cooling effect. just imagine how many more speed holes etc would be required for 5kg plus If I could remove another 5kg it would have already been removed :-)
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2020 7:28:58 GMT by nalesutol
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I am now identifying as over 70 so that I can self isolate in the garage.
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Mar 16, 2020 18:57:21 GMT
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I doubt that very many of you will be at all surprised :-) Dimensions of intercooler dictated by available space rather than engine power requirements. Spray bar designed on CAD with holes (two rows) positioned (and drilled on the CNC Mill) so the whole of the intercooler is covered. Will use nitrous as that is already installed. Another part built not bought.
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Mar 25, 2020 20:46:50 GMT
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Still sorting out the garage by moving stuff from the old barn that the Elan was kept in. Running out of space so looking at adding storage in the shallow roof area. Using the roof struts from an old bread van body we are dismantling and window cutouts from wall cladding I have made a couple of areas for storage. Lighting needs to be adjusted.
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Mar 26, 2020 16:37:09 GMT
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Why does stuff always seem to slightly exceed storage, no matter how much of one you have?
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Mar 26, 2020 16:47:15 GMT
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The evolution of the seats for the Elan. Standard seats are way too heavy :-)
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Last Edit: Mar 26, 2020 16:48:53 GMT by nalesutol
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Mar 26, 2020 17:56:20 GMT
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Nice seat evolution!
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Mar 26, 2020 19:35:08 GMT
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Why does stuff always seem to slightly exceed storage, no matter how much of one you have? One of nature's laws, stuff always expands to fill the available space :-)
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I have been preparing an old bonnet so I can experiment with the paint system I plan to use. To this end I sanded the bonnet and sprayed it black using rattle cans so as to not waste the real base paint. So far so good. Today I was going to add the colour and clear coats. However, my compressor decided not to play ball and started blowing fuses whenever I tried to start it. The On/Off plunger won't stay off so I am hoping that this is the issue and ordered a new one from Machine Mart. Now what to do? Ah, yes, I still need to repair the door mould. Got stuck into this and realised that there were more repairs needed than I first thought, in fact it is a bit of a pig's ear. Oh, well, the sooner I get started the sooner it will be ready for carbon.
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2020 20:32:13 GMT by nalesutol
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Door carcass should end up weighing between 1.5 and 2kg.
AND they will probably sprout a few holes so as not to feel left out :-)
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Last Edit: Apr 4, 2020 19:17:23 GMT by nalesutol
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A two day job stretched into three, but the mould is now finally ready for eight coats of release agent. Hopefully tomorrow will see the application of carbon. The finish on the mould won't produce a perfect, glass like, appearance on the finished product but it will be perfect for my needs.
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In contrast to a lot of man caves and garages (and car wings for that matter) I only exhibit posters and stickers from manufactures that I have used on the car. However, most of the parts have come from one supplier, the one at the bottom of this list :-)
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Don't you just love Lotus' door gaps :-) The front isn't too bad, but as for the back......
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Started working on the carbon fibre roof on my Elan. I am using an old Lenham top as the pattern from which I can take a mould. However, and I have known this for a while, one side of the car is 30mm longer than the other side! So when offering up the top it overhangs the door openings. It overhangs both sides but more on the passenger side. I am going to have to butcher the top in order to line it up, plus a lot of other mods to accommodate the Lexan rear screen and flush mounted side windows. First job is to secure it to the body and then shape it to suit.
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Last Edit: Apr 6, 2020 15:09:33 GMT by nalesutol
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Last Edit: Apr 8, 2020 8:06:47 GMT by nalesutol
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