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We had
yet another official car nuts meeting this Saturday. Fruit, bagels,
cider, pop, and coffee was on hand to keep the hardy souls that
showed up full of energy to face the cold.
Where the heck is the dragster, it was just here.
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First up
was to change some of the suspension setup. Once the engine and
misc. equipment was added to the dragster the front suspension
collapsed to the point that the tie rod was at the top of the "U"
channel provided for it in the body. First the torsion bar links
were swapped side to side (that made it to high), next they were
swapped back and the spline was moved on notch down. That helped a
lot, but will have to be twicked some more.
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Next up
was to weigh the dragster. There has been great speculation as to
how much it would weigh. Dire predictions of up to 2,300 pounds have
been put forward. The builder predicted around 1,400 pounds. The
fire bottles are not in the dragster as I am getting ready for the
trip to Indiana and do not want them to freeze, and I am not in it.
Turns out it is a lot lighter in weight than thought. Total weight
is 1505, left front is 160, right front is 181, left rear is 605,
right rear is 559. Weight bias front to rear is 77.3 Weight bias
side to side is 49.1 |
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It should be noted the floor is not flat. If you look at the
pictures you will see a drain in the center of the floor and the
floor does have a good pitch to it. This weigh in was more to see
what it weighed rather than to balance it out. That is a project
that will happen before racing, but after the show.
Now to the major task at hand, move the dragster from the garage to
the trailer for its trip out to Indiana doe the World of Wheels car
show. It was a nice warm balmy day, actually one of the warmest days
we have had in a while, and next week we are once again headed into
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Can that
guy really be that big and where did his ponytail go? I guess he
really does need a 23 inch wide cockpit. |
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The over
center jack for the front axle is not yet complete so some boards
were used to get the dragster over the "Bumps" in the road on its
journey to the trailer. |
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We have
all heard the term anchor man, not sure Tom was the best choice for
this as he is not the biggest one of us. That person was sitting in
the dragster and had the easiest job!
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Is this
the beginning of that proverbial slippery slope?
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Only car
nuts stand around out in the cold when 50 feet away is a warm heated
garage. The question came up, what are we going to work on now, well
the dragster may be show ready, it is not yet race ready and there
is a Kaiser Henry J that needs
its (little tiny 429 ford) engine removed. Also in a weeks’ time the
dragster needs to make the trip back up the driveway. |
