Daily Archives: October 21, 2017

Groceries have been purchased

And we are stocked up on milk and PopTarts. Big deal of 2 gallons of milk free w/purchase of 4 boxes of 12 count PopTarts. Now we have a gallon in the freezer and I’m switching back to coffee in my milk in place of the iced tea I have been drinking since August. Also we have about 2½ pounds of candy to give away pretend we don’t have for Halloween.

I mentioned in yesterday’s post I had pretty much used up my hand downloading pictures from eBay of that race car chassis T Bucket that I had found when searching for a picture of something else. Don’t forget to mouse over the picture to read the description.

Repeat from yesterday

That's a big deck and spoiler to go with that wing

Look at that 5 inch coilover on the rear axle

There's ample room for the passenger.

They widened the heck outta that Speedway body!

Looks like a polycarbonate top skin to show off the internal structure of that wing.

He never centered the engine, it must have been heck getting the car balanced to make right turns safely.

Well he has plenty of ground clearance.

I assume this is the e-brake caliper bolted to the front of the rear axle.

Passenger seat is cozy.

Another view of how much the engine is still offset. How on Earth did he ever get the balance right?

A better look at how much the body was widened and how far the engine is offset. The distributor on a SBC is slightly to the right of the center of the engine and this one is slightly to the left of the center of the body.

WTF are those shocks connected to?!?

 Five inch coilover mounted behind the axle, plus some kind of surge tank next to the fuel cell. Battery also visible in front of the axle, and that's what the Wide 5 hub looks like.

That's one reason to move the engine over to the right, then you wouldn't need to put 4 U-joints in your steering shaft.

This series has actually given me food for thought on the engine and body install on the TGS2. Cut the back of the body wide enough to fit over the engine and let the transmission hang out the side behind the body so it won’t need a cutout and the body line can remain. That would move the axle centerline just in back of the rear of the body so the suspension can travel without having to cut the side of the body. Lots of room for the frame to catch the engine mounts. Make a fake P.U. bed from HDPE and faux woodgrain the surface.

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