Holy Crap.

engineering marvel, even if they don't get the 1K. love the speedometer.

Exactly :woot:

Very cool Rodger, thanks for sharing! 3G's just by lifting off the throttle...Holy Sh!t! Think about that!

I was on the salt when they broke the last record with Thrust SSC. Reports and pictures were rolling in from Black Rock and everyone was buzzing....pretty cool to be a part of! Let's see if they can keep this one on the ground!
Check out the pressure wave in front of Thrust....

we need a better picture of that, Dan.

I just pulled that offline, I imagine only so many people were allowed in the air during the runs...this gives you an idea of how fast fast is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYEtQGLzvkI

"Everything's going to be wonderful"

Nice! Thank you! That's so badass :D

WOW! :thumbsup:

Some more machining pictures for those interested. I posted a few in our 66 Vette build thread, but I thought this would be a better place.

I'm building these for a customer of B&B Classics. Billy has done a lot of upgrades to this guys '67 Chevelle 300. The car is beautiful, a very nice, clean car. It has a BBC 572 that Billy put a Hilborn fuel injection unit on it last year. The owner wanted to dress up the appearance over the sheetmetal formed stacks. I came up with this:
Lower stacks, one operation in the mill, one in the lathe
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8snksgmz.jpg

After turning, these are complete. Two flipped over to see the bottom side
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psfo2xm98r.jpg

Here is the top cover plates all machined, three setups in the mill including 3D machining the inlet radius
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psaoywp9zu.jpg

this one shows the tool marks left (totally intentional) in the inlet radius
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psgtiezne8.jpg

The screens are cut on my laser. It's really a marking or engraving laser, but it will cut this 0.032" aluminum. There will be two screens in each horn with a layer of pre-filter material in between them.

Hope you guys enjoy the pics!

WOW are those bad ass !!!

Beautiful. Love great machining work. I could use something like this for front brake vent inlets.

Nice job, Aaron. Those will look great on the engine.

Thanks guys!

They would look cool with that cross hatch treatment I remember from some billet control arms.

These old things?
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psd58bce81.jpg

Very cool stack treatment!

Thanks!


Here they are installed
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...sozgmdb32.jpeghttp://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...sn9fbz7ou.jpeg

LOL, I was just going to ask you where you sourced your screen. Ive been looking for that in Stainless. 1/4" honeycomb?

You have a laser? :thumbsup:

I think Billy said he got it thru Grainger. Yes, its 1/4" aluminum hex mesh.

Yeah we have a 50W laser that is mainly for marking, but it will cut thin stuff with enough passes. Took about 3.5 minutes to cut each screen out.

Oh my god I have a tool makers woody :thumbsup:

LOL, mine never goes away :D I keep something shiny on my desk in case it ever starts to :thumbsup:

I admire your work.

My Dad talked me into meeting a tool maker friend of his from Hewlett Packard when I was 15. He convinced me to go to a Vo-Tech school during High School half days for two years for machining. I got a job at 17 in a sweat shop running screw machines until I went into the Marines at 19.

At 23 I was discharged went back to the Vo-Tech learned CNC got a good job, one thing lead to another, I spent 20 years as a tool maker, mold maker, etc.

Then my knees gave out standing on concrete so I went back to school.

Damn I miss Bridgeports, Laguns, Clausings, EDM's, Stereolithography, etc.

I now sit on my ass and manage a WAN, boring SH**

Anyhow I am rambling, awesome work Aaron, thanks for sharing it with us... :trophy-1302:

Joe

Those are beautiful work. I appreciate what you guys do because I have trouble drill and tapping a straight hole.

Never seen this before:

View on Vimeo.com

:thankyou: That was awesome!

Some amazing fabrication in this thread! Too much to list. Makes us want to strive for a little more the next time we take BigRed apart. We'll have to visit this thread more often.

Fabrication
 

Beautiful stacks. Pantera guys have
been doing custom stacks for quite a few years
Some are pretty impressive but non have ever
been as nice as these

Great work

Bob

Thanks Bob

For those not following our Spirit of '66 Vette thread, I made this this weekend. It's an air filter adapter for a C6 element. This is just the base, I need more material for the retainer ring. Hope to get to that later this week. Enjoy.

Note: this is right out of the machine, just rinsed the coolant off.
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psbiurl5kp.jpg
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psjr95fnpv.jpg
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...psdlec4yfn.jpg

Sweet!

Beautiful!

Very nice Aaron!

Which side was machined first, bottom? or Top?

Joe

Thank you.

Joe, I did the inside first. This way, I was able to use a standard vise to clamp on the outside of the stock. I tapped the perimeter holes to #10-32 threads. Then for the second side, I took some scrap pieces and machined in the bolt pattern and then used bolts to hold it down. The bolts were just under the finished flange after it was fully machined. Eventually, I will clearance drill out the threads as the clamp ring (not made yet) has the threads in it. I have a set of ARP stainless bolts to finish it out.

Too cool. You and your trick billet bits.

:king:

http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/thr...-truck.119258/

Not as good as the other race dezert build thread but its still got some amazing photos. I picked up a few jigging ideas for my frames like this one.

http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/att...ge-jpg.144068/

-Russell

This was taken a day or two before Andy Green set the record. Taken from one of two Ultralights they brought with them from the UK. I was lucky enough to buy a copy from the pilot and get Andy to autograph it.

Here's my page on it. The page is old and photos small because it was made for dial up downloading in those days. http://www.pozziracing.com/land_speedracing.htm