962 recreation with a GT3 Heart...

962 recreation with a GT3 Heart...

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ezakimak

1,871 posts

235 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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what would you think about cncing some MDF to make casting plugs and have the bell housing adapter and the triangle wing plate cast in alloy?

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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I did think that on the uprights I made for my car, but is was more of a how do I make these cheaper if I had them cast in batches of say 10 at a time would it bring the price down. For the machining time from a solid billet, and the cost of the billet itself 1 casting then cleanup on the mill could half my costs....

Didn't think of it for the bell-housing though.....uummmm good idea I'll mull that one over Cheers

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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On the subject of billet......






dom9

8,040 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Apologies if I missed it, Clive, but are they GT3 hubs and brakes?

Cracking work - looking great!

PS did you receive my email resposne on costs etc?

ezakimak

1,871 posts

235 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Hope this is useful Clive.

These guys http://www.matildafoundry.com.au/ have cast up approximately 20 door handles for our group of gt40 builders


here is a series of articles that you may find useful.

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=1...

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112615/article.html

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112616/article.html


Dom, they dont look like the GT3 hubs that i know



Ryan



Edited by ezakimak on Tuesday 2nd September 11:41


Edited by ezakimak on Tuesday 2nd September 13:20

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Corvette Hubs units.

dom9

8,040 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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GTRCLIVE said:
Corvette Hubs units.
Interesting - Thanks Clive smile

Email received and replied - Maybe check your junk mail if you can't see it?

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Ok the wheel of choice is going to be the CCW's SP20. There a light weight single piece forged wheel, perfect for a road driven car in a Country that does suffer from pot holes due to our cold winters.



18x11" front 19x13" rears, but with a nice 3" polished lip on both of them more like the 80's race cars had. I didn't go with the Corvette offsets like I used on my project because you just wouldn't get that nice lip to the rim. The large 11" wide front combined with the added height of the wider tire 295/35/18 means I can run less ET offset and still get a Low scrub radius probably in the 30-40mm range. Also the originals had very tall tires anyway. Rears are Enzo tires 345/35/19 for the road, which if a track setup is needed we can swap out for 30% profile R888 or even Hoosier's it will lower the back of the car down 17mm, but I've raised it 20mm over the front giving it a small rake for road driving.

Basically it will have 75mm to 95mm ground clearance for the road (with added Hydraulic lift for speed bumps)
then bolt on your slicks at the race track, and with a small tweak of the spring platforms your down to 60mm front and rear, the ground effects will work better then.


GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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and then there was 2...


GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Tuesday 9th September 2014
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GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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More Cad work on light weighting the gearbox extension..


dom9

8,040 posts

208 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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GTRCLIVE said:
More Cad work on light weighting the gearbox extension..

Tha's a thing of beauty, Clive!

However, witha shaft spinning at engine speed, running through the middle, is it worth some sort of 'covering' to avoid someone sticking their hand in or dropping something in and having it shot back out at them? Just a thought!

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Was thinking of sandwiching a clear plastic tube in there to cover it..... Did think about covering the box with 16g ally sheet , but then that would cover up all the Cnc machining.

dom9

8,040 posts

208 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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GTRCLIVE said:
Was thinking of sandwiching a clear plastic tube in there to cover it..... Did think about covering the box with 16g ally sheet , but then that would cover up all the Cnc machining.
Clear plastic tube you say? Sounds rather cool!

It would be a travesty to cover up that beautiful machining!

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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More Deliveries smile Cheers to the guy it came from thumbup



Comes with a Electrical Lockout for Reverse so has a nice button on the gearstick...



And a digital Gear indicator.... Well be rude not to..


J-P

4,350 posts

205 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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GTRCLIVE said:
More Deliveries smile Cheers to the guy it came from thumbup



Comes with a Electrical Lockout for Reverse so has a nice button on the gearstick...



And a digital Gear indicator.... Well be rude not to..

Very cool

You've managed to keep up a very quick work rate - when do you think you'll be finished?

ManOpener

12,467 posts

168 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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This is an incredible build project. Not a section of the forum I usually browse but I shall be watching this with great interest!

Dgr90

168 posts

131 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Incredible. Keep the updates coming. Loving this project, even if this is all way above my level of understanding biggrin

GTRCLIVE

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4,186 posts

282 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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I'd like it to be a rolling chassis by the end of the year. That's my target for now, after that there's loads of work on the body to be done before we can get it to paint shop....

JarmoL

104 posts

149 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Amazing project..clap