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post Aug 30 2023, 03:58 PM
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I made pizza, I buy a medium pizza and then I put about 2 pounds of stuff on it. Maybe it's more like 3 pounds.
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post Sep 1 2023, 01:01 PM
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Getting ready to apply some color on some parts. We'll see how badly this goes.

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Looks like I'm not going to get any color on before the viewers hit 60K.
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post Sep 2 2023, 11:00 AM
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Now in full living colors.

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Still drying so don't want to move it yet. Really want to see it in the daylight.
I like it and it got color before this thread got to 60,000 viewers.
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post Sep 5 2023, 03:26 PM
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I'm sitting here in my living room watching the fresh paint on the front wing off gassing.

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Too wet to mess with, really risky bringing it on here. Riskier leaving it outside. It looks like rain.
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post Sep 5 2023, 04:33 PM
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My Golf colors...

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Can't wait to see it in the sunlight.
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post Sep 5 2023, 04:37 PM
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"Plays with Food" Chef Sharp pizza looking good ! my 10 minute garage pizza:
Dave's Killer Bread, 6-cheese (Kroger) marinara, roast beef & swiss + side of corn (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif)
then back to work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/marty914.jpg)
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post Sep 6 2023, 05:48 AM
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Thank you Marty, replies from you always puts a smile on my face.

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I only posted this picture to edit it. Man did it need it. When I started the rework of the car I thought it needed about 15 pounds of more weight on the front end. Unknown to me the car had some camber left in the suspension but all of that is mute now that I'm doing a complete front suspension change. This could go on forever, probably what's keeping me alive like O'l Lady Winchester, but she died too.
That is the 15 pounds I was looking for. Plus about 60 pounds of down force if the wing works.
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post Sep 6 2023, 06:44 AM
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I've been doing more work on the lawnmower seat. I just finished cutting the material down to fit the modified fixture. The seat behind it is now being used by Diesel as his chair. That chair has very bad aerodynamics and weighs way too much. I call it an elefawntay.
Does anybody see a Speedster seat in that piece of aluminum?

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post Sep 16 2023, 01:01 AM
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Rough shape of the "Speedster seat" going on the lawnmower. I like the proportion of it better than the previous bending of this piece of aluminum. It was way to big after trimming this seat will appear much more petite.

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I think the finished seats will weigh in at under 4 pounds. To me thats wonderful. Before when I raced the car with PCA South Coast Region I had been feeding them for 4 years. But they didn't remember eating lunch on me. As a matter of fact a guy in 912 that probably has more money in his 912 than most of the 911 owners. I guess if it wasn't a Porsche part he didn't want to pay for it.
The first time I raced the car at the end of the day I was 2/3's of the way through the pack.
They didn't like a purpose built Volkswagen on THEIR course. Some of the 911 owners got down right unfriendly.
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post Sep 16 2023, 08:04 PM
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I'm hoping you'll be able to see this. As it's all really only my imagination. I used an 8" radius for the 3 curves. I love it.

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Gosh, I have to make a pattern...
Excuse me, that's bitchen. To
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post Sep 17 2023, 09:28 AM
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I think I can call this proof of concept. It's just the right size, fits me perfectly.

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I just finished filling the outer edges. I have to figure out how I want to put in the rivets and stand for the base.
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post Sep 22 2023, 08:57 PM
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post Sep 24 2023, 04:35 PM
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Yeah I like it too... Trying to work out the padding. I don't like trying to line up all the blocks with square corners. I think a radio and a little spacing would be easier to arrange and look cleaner.

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post Sep 24 2023, 04:37 PM
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I'm really looking forward to the padding because that's what makes it resemble the early Porsche race car seats. Currently I'm trying to find a way to round the corners as almost everything you touch to the rubber grabs it. Even my hot wire foam cutter does not treat it well. Causing waves and peaks that can't be sanded out.
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post Sep 28 2023, 11:15 AM
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Coming along sorta. The pads are just taped in place. But I like the pattern and don't mind the corners.

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Does anyone else see a resemblance to an early Speedster seat?
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post Oct 13 2023, 01:16 PM
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With everything except the trim and base mount, it's done. Next thing I need to do is make the pattern from this chair.

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This chair is for my Deere, Diesel distorted the one on it .
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post Oct 17 2023, 11:23 AM
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I was unhappy with the action of the Gurney flap on the rear wing. It was stiff and a slight bind in one spot, that meant to me that it wasn't straight. Looking very close I found the spot that needed to be relieved. Fixed the spot and now the flap is a little slow but I believe that after a little use it will be fine. It looks so much better.
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post Oct 17 2023, 11:29 AM
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I was unhappy with the action of the Gurney flap on the rear wing. It was stiff and a slight bind in one spot, that meant to me that it wasn't straight. Looking very close I found the spot that needed to be relieved. Fixed the spot and now the flap is a little slow but I believe that after a little use it will be fine. It looks so much better.

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It's going to take me awhile to get everything repaired and reassembled so I'll post better pictures later.
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post Oct 27 2023, 05:34 AM
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Today I finally made the pattern for the race car seats. I took an impression of the seat because I knew it wasn't symmetrical folded it in half and cut the pattern from the side I liked best.
Remember this is my imitation of a Speedsters seat. I had a lot of help from Ron Covell on Utube.

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I picked a very poor paper so I need to get it glued down to sometime more substantial.
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post Nov 18 2023, 07:11 AM
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This morning I am watching the launch and I received an epiphany regarding the diffuser. I have been worrying about the mounting for the front of it. The muffler is in the way of doing any mock up as I have a stock 911 muffler on there. Came with the motor. (T-40 and holding) I'm going to use the muffler bracket to mount the front of the diffuser. WOW! They blew up the booster as soon as the rocket was clear.

What a KOOL day.
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