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Offline Draw 3D

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #120 on: November 30, 2014, 06:50:43 PM »
Harley, I have a headrest in my altered, it's an older Taylor unit and it's about 3 inches thick:



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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #121 on: December 07, 2014, 08:29:05 PM »
Fuel lines and puke tank finished.

Getting closer.

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #122 on: December 08, 2014, 04:58:22 AM »
Looking good, going to run the same class this year?
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #123 on: December 08, 2014, 07:24:10 AM »
Yes...engine went low 7's on nitro but my pockets are not that deep. Should run close to 8.00 on alky.
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #124 on: December 08, 2014, 10:06:49 AM »
Is that engine in the Fiat?

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #125 on: December 08, 2014, 11:09:34 AM »
Yes.... Headers and a couple of small things and its ready to fire.
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #126 on: December 08, 2014, 12:36:04 PM »
That's a very cool looking car.

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #127 on: December 08, 2014, 01:29:39 PM »
Thank you...Scott and Roo both offer excellent work and product..

Need to get paint on it but the engine came first...maybe next year.
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #128 on: December 08, 2014, 06:23:39 PM »
If Roo built it, it's nice.



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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #129 on: December 26, 2014, 05:47:13 PM »
got couple things done and not done on "DARKSIDE" today;;got shift light relocated so can see better going down track.Started on cutting hole in body to run steering shaft from pitman arm though..Started build plate that'll cover the big hole and look better;;going wrap it in carbon fiber vinly
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #130 on: December 30, 2014, 06:13:10 AM »
Harley, I have a headrest in my altered, it's an older Taylor unit and it's about 3 inches thick:



THANKS FOR PIC;;THAT IS WHAT I WAS THINKING I NEEDED;;WHEN YOU SITTING IN CAR SUITED UP AND CAR STAGED THEN DOES YOUR HEAD REST AGAINST IT ARE IS THERE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR HELMET AND PAD?AS STATED IN MY OLD POST ON THIS ISSUE MY HEAD WAS BEING SUNG BACK VERY HARD WHEN I TRY TO LANCH CAROFF LINE..THIS IS WHY I FELT NEEDED A HEAD REST;;WANT TO GET PLAT BUILT TODAY AND GET A MESUREMENT AS TO HOW THICK PADDING NEEDS TO BE ON IT;DIDN'T KNOW IF SHOULD HAVE HEAD BACK AGAINST IT AT LANCH OF CAR OR SHOULD BE SOME SPACE BETWEEN HELMET AND IT?I DID PUT A CHINE STRAP ON HELMET AND WILL BE WEARING HANS DEVICE FROM NOW ON;;DIDN'T HAVE THESE AT TIME I TOOK CAR OUT WHEN FOUND OUT BARS WAY BACK FROM HELMET
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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #131 on: December 30, 2014, 07:08:48 AM »
Harley, my car is old school lay-down type so I lay in my seat and my head lays on the headrest.

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #132 on: January 17, 2015, 08:07:52 AM »
We picked up 53 gallons of Nitro yesterday and the ISP head rest was delivered.  We also updated our Facebook page with new photos.

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #133 on: January 25, 2015, 05:18:50 PM »
Over the last few weekends, I've been doing a couple of projects on my altered, add a shift light and and make a shifter for my powerglide.

On adding a shift light, got all the necessary items for adding a shift light on Vertex magneto motor, the trigger, all brackets and of coarse, the shift light. The only thing that has worked as advertised is the crank trigger, which is from Spud at FIE, everything else needed lots of work, the mounting bracket needed a bracket made so it would work and I'm still having issues with the new tach/shift light combo, tach won't show rpm if the rpm is below the shift set point and I'm on the second combo set, argh! Here's a picture of the FIE crank trigger and the brackets I had to make to hold the store-bought brackets:



The second part was making a new shifter, I had bought and tried a couple and wasn't happy with either one and instead of spending more money on a shifter that probably would not meet my needs, I decided to make my own. I spent a lot of time on my CAD designing the pattern, I wanted something simple but reliable and here's what I came up with, ii is still in the rough mode as I want to make a couple of passes before I finish it up, it's at the bottom of the picture:



The shifter has a spring-loaded nylon block that forces it into the correct position, I'm still working on the reverse lockout.

Anyway, that is what I've been doing on my altered :)

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Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?
« Reply #134 on: January 25, 2015, 07:33:15 PM »
Very nice work Draw3D
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