my chop top widebody thread
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Topic: my chop top widebody thread
Posted By: fencerenu
Subject: my chop top widebody thread
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 5:07pm
Here are some pics of my chop top wide body I'm doing...  |
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Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 5:16pm
Here are some more pics...  |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 5:27pm
And here are some more pics...  |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 5:42pm
Hm, I like the look of the silver racing car (About the second one in). For one thing, the functional upper scoops are intriguing, would be fun to run the take from either end of them. Ram air is pretty damn awesome.  ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 5:54pm
This is what it started as... |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:03pm
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Let me know if you DO intend to do ram air. I've been studying extensively on aerodynamics and would love to help out in any way possible. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:21pm
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It turns out it is about 4" lower in back and about 3 inches in front. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:28pm
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I need help figuring out what kinds of wheels and tires I can use on it. I love the Johnny style the most, but as the Mexican worker said this morning when I pulled into a parking spot "Oh that's like one of those old school exotics." lol so maybe the Clynt style wheels and tires might be more appropriate... I don't know... I'm wondering if maybe this particular car will even need to be a widebody... |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:43pm
Good luck with both.  ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:44pm
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I bought body panels for the back widebody and the quarter panels to copy the Johnny style... for somebody who complained about people copying me, I sure am copying these two guys a bunch... |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 6:45pm
Some of my inspiration -            |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 8:33pm
additional inspiration...   |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 9:37pm
I have a whole stack of papers on turbulence, pressure, laminer flow, venturi effect, fluid dynamics and damn near everything else you could ever want to know about how air moves. I will scan them tomorrow and PM you them. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
fencerenu wrote:Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 9:37am
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Nothing new to report, yet. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 2:37pm
| Nothing new to report, yet. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 2:47pm
| Nothing new to report, yet. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 8:39pm
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Venturi effect will only come into play when the intake changes diametre, in this manner: The skinny part will cause air to move faster and lower it's pressure, both of which will help you add hydrogen into the mix (Think of how a carburator works). Doing this after the ram air section of the intake would provide the best results. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 12:56am
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You appear to have a history of posting and then deleting posts in this manner. For anyone who's curious what I'm talking about, click http://www.fierosearch.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?forum=-1&where=SUB&SearchQuery=fencerenu&Action=DoSearch - Here to see how fencerenu has made a mess of the forums at Pennock's as well. I don't know what your problem is, but nobody appreciates threads being trashed like this. [EDIT] Lots has transpired since I originally posted this, but I'm going to leave it as is as I don't believe in deleting posts normally.
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Posted By: Dawg
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 1:34am
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I suspect our friend He did seem a little odd to say the least. Hopefully Dave can simply remove all this. The Dawg ------------- You dream it up....I'll make it |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 7:40am
| http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/083058.html - http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/083058.html |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 8:10am
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Why the sudden change of heart? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Dr.Fiero
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 9:38am
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I was really going to hold off on this, but.... All in favour of my hitting the 'user delete' button, raise a hand.  Or can someone see the err' in their ways, and let me delete a whack of posts so they can start over? I for one am tired of all this. |
Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 11:04am
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Just curious, will the window flip up as you shown it or have I missed something earlier ? 
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Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 11:08am
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Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 4:01pm
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I edited a number of the posts to put in some pics of the project. Tre |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 5:23pm
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since I have 4 tailpipes, it will be sweet to hook up 4 turbo whistlers! lol j/k Tre |
Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 12:22pm
It's hard to tell on pics, is the windshield laid back or is it in stock position ? What door windows are you going to use, since they have to be custom fit to your chop ? Let us know Johnny |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 4:47pm
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Could always take it to a professional glass shop and get them to form another set that was slanted back. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 11 October 2010 at 5:26pm
| The windshield is definitely not in its stock position... It's laid back. |
Posted By: fencerenu
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 10:49am
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*Update - I've been busy over the last few days, so I haven't even been able to lurk on the sites. I forgot how horrible bondo fumes are. What makes it even better is when you don't get the mix hard enough and it takes forever to cure. It'll fill up your warehouse and your office and your neighbors' warehouses and offices... Horrible... Okay and I'm a chemical guy. I got to looking at this dynalight bondo stuff that sells for a slight premium over regular bondo. The main ingredient is calcium carbonate aka marble as in 'marble floors.' It's a big time filler used in paints and stains, etc. And the other main ingredient in bondo stuff is polyester resin - the same stuff that comprises Fiberglass Resin. So they are basically mixing super cheap marble dust with fiberglass resin to make bondo. That 'waters it down' and then makes it easier to sand and so forth. Marble (calcium carbonate) is actually a metal believe it or not... Okay... So the windshield was WARPED into place during the chop. It was awesome for a little bit - several days. lol now it's cracked and is popping out in the upper corner of the driver's side. The door window slants have now been taken off, because they were made of mesh and fiberglass and resin and I want to remake them not using the metal mesh. Pretty much every hot chick in the USA is awaiting the completion of this ride, but I've decided to really slow down and take my time instead of trying to set proverbial land speed records... I appreciate the support and advice and would appreciate learning some more about the windshield process. Because I'm gonna have to get a new windshield when I'm ready for it... |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 12:22pm
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Sounds like you've been influenced by Tristan (Romeo) already.
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 12:38pm
And really - is that honestly a bad thing?  ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |