How's you spend the Holidays?

Here's what I was doing yesterday and today:

40 upper spring seats, lower spring seats, lock rings.

One work piece, 3 pats when done: 1 each upper and lower seats, and lock ring.


Start of second operation:

Doesnt look like all three parts, does it?


Lower seat step machined, boring center hole prior to threading:


Lower seat and lock ring finished and parted off, finishing the second halt of upper seat:


Done about 3.5 minutes later:


Tubes done a couple of days ago:


Basic 50mm JVAB Bilstein:


Looks beefy.

Going to have to invent some top mounting for like the Honda and Audi I'm making suspenders for and the Focus too.

Here's what I was doing a couple of weekends ago:
"606" copy of Fords "909 GpN" front diff strengthening plate:

Cover held on with little M6 bolts,



I made a jig and am First step is drilling out the holes to size to be tapped to M8:


Then M8 studs get scewed in and locited down:


Closer look:


Now the 8mm steel plate with close fit is tapped down in place, big stiff thing makes it hard for the diff case to squirm, so allegedly makes them harder to blow up:


Finally the cover is placed in position and steel washer and lock nut are torqued down.




Also building 3 motors.
Oi

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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I went swimming and rode waterslides and hung out with the love and drank some beer.

What are those diffs?

The 50 mm stuff looks sweet. Keep me updated on 50 pricing and stuff for Subaru fitment. Got a few cars that need something good.

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Grant Hughes

Looks good John..

Sanding, lots of sanding.
But this post reminded me I need to charge my camera. So pictures tomorrow of a hopefully painted rally car!

NoCoast Wrote:
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> I went swimming and rode waterslides and hung out
> with the love and drank some beer.
Sounds good!
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> What are those diffs?

Cossie 4x4 front diffs
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> The 50 mm stuff looks sweet. Keep me updated on
> 50 pricing and stuff for Subaru fitment. Got a
> few cars that need something good.

Call now. Its just a smidge more than the 40mm stuff and all the inserts are already GpA Subie stuff.


Hey you or any of your friends have a car that works?
That guy I won the 4.3 Supra diff from is listing again.
You got a diff yet?
I thought you could get it since its a 4.3..........
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> Grant Hughes
> www.nocoastmotorsports.net
> Denver, CO

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

It seems a shame to turn that big hunk of billet into that little hunk of strut top.



It does look perty though.

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"Time to unpimp ze auuto."





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Phlyan Pan Wrote:
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> It seems a shame to turn that big hunk of billet
> into that little hunk of strut top.

It would be a crying shame especiually what I'm paying for aluminum, but you gotta think a bit now and give people credit for not being idiots, cause it would be idiotic to waste so much material.

The big hunk was turned into 1 upper spring seat, a lower spring seat and a lock ring.

Three parts done in 2 operations.
First the part is chucked in the machine and the underside and the step of the upper spring seat is turned, all 40 pieces.
Then in operation 2, the part is checked as in the top piccie and it gets faced off, the step for the spring is turned, the huge drill bores the hole deep, the a boring bar finishes the bore, then the threading insert comes and does the threads and chamfers. Next a parting tool comes in and lops off the first 1,5" or so and thats the lower spring seat, then it moves in about 3/8" and chops off the second part, the lock ring.
Now all thats left is about 5 passes to get the cone shape of the upper spring seat.

About 3.25 minutes cycle time for the whole second operation,

The key to profitable CNC work is planning out the whole process and minimizing slow work.
In this series, I not only drew up the parts but suggested the process to make the stuff and so I saved sawing 120 cuts on the band saw thru 4" stuff---very slow work indeed.
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> It does look perty though.

It'll look even purttier when they're all anodized a nice rich blue.
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> "Time to unpimp ze auuto."
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> sleightc (A.T.) Yahoo {DOT} com

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Carl S Wrote:
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> Sanding, lots of sanding.
> But this post reminded me I need to charge my
> camera. So pictures tomorrow of a hopefully
> painted rally car!
>
> www.DFLrally.com


I can't wait to see it!

Saturday I put the doors back together (windows, handles, inner panels), Sunday I watched Indy and Nascar w/ the wife, and tightened a few loose bolts.

Monday I loaded the car on a trailer and took it to weld in the navi seat mount. Then met up with Parps and mounted 6 shiny new Hankook tires for SS.

Unfortunately I realized that my front suspension problems are still there, so I had to pull the LCA off. Turns out the captive nut for the rear LCA mount is stripped, so today I'll be finding a 1/2" tap and appropriate bit and "fixing" that. Also, in comparing right and left sides, I remembered the boot is torn on the passenger ball joint, so I get to replace that, too.

I'm going to be down to the wire getting this thing aligned before SS.

I spent them getting my Subie rally car running. We had a short somewhere in the car and it blew out one of the beefy 80 amp fuses. After a scary period where *none* of the electronics worked, it's now back to 100%.

Eli

I took my honey out to lunch in the rally car yesterday. Then we stopped by the practice road and I gave her a ride at about 80% so she could see what the car is like. Good times. Gonna get her out on the field in the Protege this year and hopefully in a rally by next year.

Worked with my buddy on boost control. Getting him up to speed with the Motec software and we logged a few runs to play with the data...see what we want to change.

This is good. I need a collaborator for this stuff to help me sort out things. I have a few great folks around who are really bright and help me with setting up the car.

Played kickball and rode bikes with the kid. Saved a turtle. Fed the fish. Did the laundry. Put a fresh fork seal in the Hawk. Helped a local kid with his riding on his KX60 (elbows up, stand up, look ahead, etc.) on the track. GF's family came over on Sat. night with 4 guitars and a bass and we jammed till 2am. Took GF's daughter for a motorcycle ride.

Took me since Christmas, but I finally finished off a bottle of Jack.

Great weekend.

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Lurch
Eric Burmeister
The west coast...of Michigan



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2007 04:08PM by Lurch.

Cooked out Friday.

Looked at a house, took younger child to B-day party, cooked out with friends Saturday.

Slept in, went to party/badminton tournament, lost in first round having been paired with a hottie wife who was incompetent with a racquet, drank a bunch on Sunday.

Did my first tandem hanglide (not quite the rush as you get in a rally car), went to lunch with the friends that invited us to hanglide, watched the NCAA Lacrosse Championships, went to the pool, ate the left-over pork tenderloin and gazpacho from Saturday on Monday.

Wilson

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"Talk about drugs. Driving a car like that, going that fast, it’s like all the drugs at once." - Tommy Byrne

"Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?" - The Brain

fliz Wrote:
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> I can't wait to see it!
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Neither can I!
Here is midway through our 12 hour shift on it yesterday.
By the end of the day it was all primered and partly taped.
I have to move apartments today and tomorrow, but my friend called me and said he sprayed one coat on today. He needs more hardner so I'll get some tomorrow, then he can wetsand and spray again. It should be decent enough. Weve got over 100 hours into the paintjob, it was in horrible horrible shape. Make sure you use enough hardner in your clears!!!

Then I have to finish mounting the passenger seat, make sure the intercom works, change the speedo gear in the transmission, make sure th erally lights work, find some extinguishers and tow strap (mine are on loan to another rallyist right now) and put it all back together. Probably a million more things to do before shooting star too, crunch time!



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I'm still waiting for my new rims to float their way over here form England so I took the car out for one last thrash before I tear it apart and change the brakes. It was a family reunion weekend at the ranch and I took all of my cousins, aunts and uncles for a ride...I think I've got them convinced that it's a good idea to host a small stage rally there...keep your fingers crossed.





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I spent the weekend *thinking* about rally cars. My girlfriend was in town, and the car isn't working at the moment. Tomorrow I'll drive it to the exhaust shop to get a new pipe to replace the flattened and folded one (Olympus Rally took its toll).

Today I spent the afternoon at U-Pull-It snatching suspension parts off a couple of Corollas that match mine. Now I have extra control arms (if/when they break or bend in the future), and more importantly strut assemblies to throw in the back (tomorrow) so I can drive it to the exhaust shop.

The rear struts (Ground Control and hard springs on stock struts, it would seem) got annihilated at Olympus, and busted through the top of the "reinforced" strut towers. The stock rears will get me through the rallycross in a few weeks.

Those 50's would look real nice on my FX-16!!!

Brian, did you build the FX or buy it prepped? I know someone who was selling one, want to know if he ever got rid of it.

Eli