Quiet you.. go comment in the pinto forumYeah, weird indeed
Of all the aerospace museums, the one at Pensacola is a great attraction. It amazes me that they had such advanced engine tech on aircraft engines from the 30’s and 40’s ( multi valve cylinder heads, turbocharged/supercharged, fuel injection) that took another 40-50 years to make it into the main stream automotive market. When I was there, they had a formation of old (A4 ?) jets that the Blue Angels flew grouped at the distance they usually flew apart from each other hanging from the ceiling with a platform that you could walk up to at that height and stand at eye level with that, just to gauge how close it actually was.The Naval museum in Pensacola, FL has some great cutaway radial engines so you can see how they work. The number of moving parts in them is mind boggling. To think that Pratt and Whitney was manufacturing hundreds of the things a day at the height of the war is staggering. The R4360 only went in a few airplanes, and was referred to as the corn cob.
You might love the Merlin in a Mustang, but you didn't want to be flying it. The V12s were developed to reduce the forward cross sectional area of the airplane, but to do that, they had to have water cooling. Spitfires and Mustangs got shot down a lot more than their radial counterparts. One bullet pierces the cooling system on a Mustang, and it's going down. I've known people who flew Mustangs, and if the cooling system gets a leak, you just bail out immediately. The engine eventually seizes, and causes a torque roll so bad, you can't get out of the plane. Radial engines had jugs (a cylinder) blown off of them and flew back.
Kurt
8 gauge is what I read in some of the descriptive information.. There's no buckshot, only the power charge in the starter cartridges'.Dang, what gauge would those be, and how far could you hunt with buck shot with those size shells?
Of course Buckshot or bird shot would be bad for the engine. But shells often can be reloaded.8 gauge is what I read in some of the descriptive information.. There's no buckshot, only the power charge in the starter cartridges'.
I did my time in piston aircraft. They are fun, and you have plenty of time to get things done. Jet's are a handful, but a lot more fun to fly. I don't think I ever want to fly something that doesn't have AC and a bathroom anymore.Piston engine aircraft >jet engine aircraft.
Steve….It’s Steve. He’s the guy that has programmed the stuff on my ecu. @a91whatI did my time in piston aircraft. They are fun, and you have plenty of time to get things done. Jet's are a handful, but a lot more fun to fly. I don't think I ever want to fly something that doesn't have AC and a bathroom anymore.
The vinyl work looks really good. I think that was an Ace decision. The whole interior looks really good. Those clutches are a bare to bleed. If it's not disengaging, I would at least try a bottle bleed on it before concluding that one of the parts is inadequate. Of course, a power bleeder is going to do a better job, but I have gotten them with a bottle bleed.
Who is Scott exactly? I would be interested in getting him to wire me a soft start for my fan.
Kurt
I knew there was some weird kinship somewhere out there. I love WWII aircraft. The room next to the monster is filled with a whole bunch of warbird artwork.
My college room mate is still one of my best friends. He's currently doing a Coyote swap foxbody after multiple other Mustangs. He is crazy about his airplane models. He's been doing war bird models since I met him 22 years ago. He goes crazy with the air brush. He goes the extra mile to airbrush in the known hydraulic leaks and exhaust stains on his models.20 years ago 2 co-workers and I got to talking about warbirds and combat aircraft in general. We started doing a model build every couple of months...when done we would bring them in and compare. One of the guys ran into a guy in the model section of Hobby Lobby who said his dad had owned a hobby shop in the 80's and early 90's and closed it and put a lot of stuff in storage. He had a ton of plastic model kits. We went to the storage unit and boy he wasn't kidding. We didn't get any car models, boat models, pretty much just aircraft. There were over 150 models. We bought them, divided them up and what you see in the picture in my closet is my share, minus a few that are somewhere in big storage bins. When we got done, we still have over 50 models that were tons of duplicates...so we sold those off over a couple of years. Maybe one day when I retire I'll have time to build more. I also haven't bother with any of the big bombers, because of space.
I spent several hours a few years ago at the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola. I agree the Blue Angel A4 display is pretty friggin awesome! Plus they have a Firestone Corsair!
Steve….It’s Steve. He’s the guy that has programmed the stuff on my ecu. @a91what
My trac-lok could use a rebuild, and my anemic belly button 5.0 could use some gearing to wake it up- think all that would fit in a flat rate boxyes. I say.
the gears are in the box the 3.31’s came in..The T loc will have to get its own. It’s pretty heavy as you know.My trac-lok could use a rebuild, and my anemic belly button 5.0 could use some gearing to wake it up- think all that would fit in a flat rate box
I’ll Pm youthe gears are in the box the 3.31’s came in..The T loc will have to get its own. It’s pretty heavy as you know.
Damn Mike you just cant catch a break can you? This is the reason why building everything yourself can be so darn frustrating if it does not work you have no one to point at... on the other hand the car was never meant to have a clutch pedal installed in it, I wonder if the firewall is weaker in that area because of that or if its from all the modifications you made to the transmission tunnel.Putting the thing on the ground changes things. While in the air, you could get it to go in gear albeit a little clunky, once on the ground, it wont.
Additionally you can see flex in the firewall..I can watch the gas pedal move while pressing on the clutch pedal.
So,…after shutting off the car, the first thing I did was this .
Then I shut the door, turned out the lights, and went upstairs.
After allowing myself time to absorb the possibility of having to redo the clutch pedal assembly, which will require that I remove the front of the dash so that I can get the steering column back out, so that I can drop the pedal assembly and the EPS motor that is bolted onto that, I thought about my options.
I can bleed the system and see if it’s truly got some trapped air.
I will put a bar between the firewall or the strut tower, and tie it to the frame rail to stop that flex.
I thought maybe I can just put a larger bore MC in place of the existing .750” unit that is there. It will obviously increase the effort required to depress the pedal, but it will move more fluid in the same amount of travel.
So I call Wilwood to discuss that. I tell him that I what I have going on, and that I was able to get the car in gear while it was up in the air, but could not make that happen on the ground. I asked him what he thought about increasing the master cylinder bore size.
“ The MC you’re using is the correct one for that slave cylinder, but I think you got air in your system.”
A glimmer of hope pops into my head.
He tells me I gotta fix the flex ( I know), and after that to try and get the car in gear while pumping the clutch pedal..”if you can get it into gear after multiple pumps of the clutch pedal, you got air trapped in the system.” I tell him that if I’m putting the car back up in the air to build a firewall reinforcement, I’m just going to go ahead and bleed that MC while I’m at it.
At least I still have a workaround that doesn’t require a total redo of this clutch pedal..