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Author:  carguy123 [ February 13, 2017, 12:48 pm ]
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Another big factor in your ability to see at almost any light level is the light color. The soft white yellowish bulbs don't give your eyes as much information as a higher Kelvin rated bulb. I use daylight bulbs in my shop.

LEDs seem to have an actual color that's a higher kelvin than the rating so some of the LEDs seem harsh when you get on up there above 5k or so. Also dimmable LEDs have a 60 cycle flicker than bothers some people so always get non-dimmable LEDs.

Author:  GonzoRacer [ February 25, 2017, 12:35 am ]
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Yo, Team Slotus!

How y'all doin? We're purty good here.

I think I mentioned that Earl took a run in the Slotus at our last autocross. I think I mentioned he hit a couple of cones. I don't think I mentioned he busted the fiberglass on one of the rear fenders. (Kids these days! Geeze!) It was only a small ding on the bottom of the front edge of the fender. I glued it back in place and then got to thinking about the situation...

Uh-Oh... That usually leads to trouble...

Well, maybe not this time. I dug around in my junk pile... Err, I mean, my metals stock area and found some 1/2 inch aluminum C-channel. Cut a couple of pieces of that to the right length, rounded some corners, notched the backside on one end and Boom! I gots edge guards on the fenders. Then I noticed some thin ally sheet rolled up under one of the work benches. Hmmm...

Some cutting, trimming, rounding of corners and perhaps a minor sheet metal accident or three later (but only two of 'em drew blood.) and I had some fender shields, just like a real race car! Looky here:
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Whatcha tink? Looks muy bueno to me. (I might be biased.)

We have an autocross on Sunday at SGMP, so I'll be doing race prep and loading tomorrow and runnin' around a bunch of cones on Sunday. Stay tuned, I'll let ya know how that turns out!

:cheers:
Peace, Love and Band-Aids on Two Fingers-
JDK

Author:  horchoha [ February 26, 2017, 1:05 am ]
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Sweet! Well worth the blood letting :lol:

Author:  carguy123 [ February 26, 2017, 6:09 pm ]
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Hey JD, you made the LIVE from GRM post on Facebook. The still screen clearly shows your car. He also mentions your car by name and says we'll go look at it after this run. YOU IS FAMOUS!!! Now you'll have to go join the GRM forum just to defend your honor.

I'm thinking you'll have to make him an honorary member of the team. He lost his phone whilst driving and it records for a long time while he's looking for it. Bubba and him are 2 of a kind! You look like a genius by comparison.

I don't know how to share a FB post on here so you'll just have to go over there yourself.

I know it might be tough but just Google Grassroots Motorsports.

OK, never mind that might be too tough for you. BTW Google isn't looking intently at something it's a web site that lets you search for things..

Web site, OK how do I explain that? Are you familiar with the internet?

OK, what can I use as an example to explain internet. Remember those tin can telephones you made as a kid? Well if you hooked everybody's tin cans to the same string and then listened in, wait, that would be a party line. So if someone else listened in and then told you what they was doing then that would be Google.

But unfortunately things have gotten more complicated than tin cans over the years . . . .Heck I don't know what to tell you, maybe somebody smarter than me can tell you how to see the purty movin' pictures.

Although I couldn't make it work, here's the embed code so maybe you can use that to take you to the video.
<iframe%20src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgrassrootsmotorsports%2Fvideos%2F10155099261078140%2F&show_text=0&width=400"%20width="400"%20height="400"%20style="border:none;overflow:hidden"%20scrolling="no"%20frameborder="0"%20allowTransparency="true"%20allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>

Author:  GonzoRacer [ February 27, 2017, 11:16 pm ]
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Yo, Team Slotus-
Welllll.... Sunday did not go well. Perhaps that's why I'm in such a bad mood, and don't find Carguy's lame attempts at humor the least bit funny. Put a sock in it David...

So, made 2.6 runs. First one was on cold tires, didn't push it at all. Second run felt good, but I knew I'd left a lot on the table. Third run started out good... And the fuel pump crapped out on me. We pushed it to the grid. I sat out the rest of the day. We were in Cecil, GA, on a Sunday. I might have found a parts store in Adel or Valdosta, might have gotten a suitable pump and might have gotten it put in before the end of the day, but I just didn't feel like thrashing about.

So, we'll try again one day soon.

Stay tuned-
JDK

Author:  GonzoRacer [ February 27, 2017, 11:26 pm ]
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OK, David, you can use a smaller sock... At least you corrected them over at GRM on FaceBook when they said "Kit Car".

JDK

Author:  carguy123 [ February 27, 2017, 11:59 pm ]
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GonzoRacer wrote:
OK, David, you can use a smaller sock... At least you corrected them over at GRM on FaceBook when they said "Kit Car".

JDK


At the time I was righting I didn't know you had fuel pump issues. Those "little" types of issues are always the worst. Blowing up the engine is understandable, but something small sucks and makes you feel you should have known.

Sorry for your misery. BUT I'll bet there's a GRM article about your car in the future. But this time wear pants when they come to take the pics.

Author:  carguy123 [ February 28, 2017, 12:20 am ]
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JD also go to their Facebook page for the posts over there. Chime in why don't ya on both the forum and FB page. I'm sure you'll get lots of questions

Author:  Omterry [ February 28, 2017, 5:10 pm ]
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Sorry to hear about your fuel pump. Happy to hear that GRM finally noticed the greatness that is Team Slotus. Kit car indeed. Good job.

With that in mind, we all want to know how that new engine is terrorizing the track. Sure, you didn't get many runs, but is it the horror you were hoping for? Does it now bend light all the way into the ultra violet?

Finally, one last question for those of us with limited (ahem, zero) racing experience. How do you warm up tires on an autocross weekend? Warmers, I am sure, would do the trick, but you don't seem to use them. But if not tire warmers, doesn't enough time elapse between runs that all the heat goes out of them? Or maybe that is just a Yankee problem we have up here in the great white north where we clear the track, but the paddock is pretty much ice.

Author:  GonzoRacer [ March 1, 2017, 11:54 am ]
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Yo, 'Terry!
Good to hear from you! Yeah, dead fuel pumps really put a damper on the weekend, don't they? :BH:

Last month and the first couple of runs this month, I can testify that the stroker motor is a beast! Pulls like a freight train up to over 5K rpm, slacks off just a bit above that- but not much, slightly smaller train -all the way to the 6200 redline. Great torque down low (I got yer wheelspin right here, Buddy...) I'm still learning this car to begin with, but the stroker motor definitely requires "rolling" into the throttle and not "stomping" on it, unless you want the rear to step out and want to leave lots of rubber on the road... In summation, it's WUNNERFULL! :D

Ahhh, warm tires... What I wouldn't give... SCCA Solo2 rules don't allow electric tire warmers. I've read about some folks putting heavy-duty plastic wrap (like you get at the truck rental/moving places) all around the car, covering the wheel openings completely and then letting the motor run in grid. They tear the stuff off just before they go to the line. I've also read about other folks protesting that procedure. (Autocrossers can be sooo tedious sometimes!)

If I can, I try to run up-and-down in the back of the paddock a few times to get a little warmth in the tires. If you're not in the first run group at our events the exchange in groups is done quickly enough that there's not time before you go to grid in for your run group. Thus, the comment about my first run being on cold tires and not pushing it.

Some folks have those quilted aluminum foil kind of things they put over the tires to retain heat after the first run. Might help, I haven't ever tried them. Maybe I will one day. If I can keep Bubba from tearing them up thinking there's food inside that foil thing... :mrgreen:

And yes, being in the sunny Southland does make it easier to keep tires warm. That black rubber out in the sun gathers some heat. I've had the tire pressures increase 4 - 5 lbs or so from sitting in the sun waiting for my group to run. I also note often that one side of the car gains more air than the other, based on how the car is turned relative to the sun. Means you really have to check those pressures just before your run, or it might be off a pound or two on one side!

Which leads us to the very first thing a newby autocrosser needs to do: Buy a good tire gauge!!! Not the cheapy little stick kind or the little bitty round ones next to the register at Autozone, but a good dial gauge like a Rebco or equivalent. Check them tahr pressures often!

OK, sermon's over... Amen... :mrgreen:

Y'all come back now!
:cheers:
JDK

Author:  GonzoRacer [ March 5, 2017, 11:01 am ]
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GonzoRacer wrote:
I might have found a parts store in Adel or Valdosta, might have gotten a suitable pump and might have gotten it put in before the end of the day, but I just didn't feel like thrashing about.


And, of course, when I got the beast home and was all prepared to push/pull/tow with the lawn mower, the Slotus cranked up and drove off the trailer and into the shop. GRRRRRR... Couldn't get the pump to fail. Let it run for 5 minutes, turned it off and on repeatedly, jiggled wires, etc, etc. I decided to replace it any way. While I'm at it, I think I'll replace the switch, too. I took it out of the dash to check the connections. Didn't find a problem, but realized I was about 45 seconds away from having it totally disconnected and decided "Whot th' 'ell!"

Started replacing the fuel pump yesterday afternoon. I'm really glad now that I didn't try to do it at the event. The pump is in the fuel cell, which has a fairly large filler opening, but not quite large enough for me to comfortably reach into the tank. The tank is about 3/4 full, by the way. I chose not to rig up some kind of pump to drain it because... Well, because I'm lazy...

So, first off, the electrical connector isn't like the one on the new fuel pump that James gave me (Doesn't everybody have a spare fuel pump just lying around?) But I didn't know that until I reached into the tank and tried to disconnect it. The hose clamps were turned the "wrong" way, so I had to rotate the pump to get to them, which involved loosening the AN bulkhead fitting. No big deal, other than reaching into the tank again (and again) with the wrench.

Eventually, I clipped the wires just outside the tank, loosened that bulkhead fitting too and pulled the pigtails into the tank. I got the hose clamps loose enough to pull the pump off the piece of fuel line it was hanging on and got the l'il bastage out of the tank. What a PITA!!!

*Side note--Hand cleaner with lots of lanolin in it makes the burning in your gas-soaked hand and forearm feel much better!*

Along the way I found some tired looking nylon washers that I'm gonna replace as well as that switch I mentioned. Maybe some new clamps, too... Soooo, off to town I go and we'll get back in the shop this afternoon. Unless I take a nap... Either way, stay tuned, something's bound to happen sooner or later!

:cheers:
JDK

Author:  Omterry [ March 5, 2017, 11:14 am ]
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Well, that must have been special. Sorry to hear about the further adventures of JD and the fuel pump. Glad about the lanolin. My hands still hurt just thinking about alcohol or ace one, let alone gasoline. Those solvents will just suck every bit of oil from your skin and laugh at you. I'd recommend gloves, but they have to be pretty serious. I was gloved my whole time as a bench chemist, and you see above the results. A better recommendation is just stay out of the stuff.

Author:  GonzoRacer [ March 5, 2017, 11:22 am ]
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Quote:
I'd recommend gloves, but they have to be pretty serious.
"A man can't even whistle right with gloves on." -- Jack D. Kemp, Sr.
:mrgreen:

Author:  carguy123 [ March 6, 2017, 12:00 am ]
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Do you have a filter on the intake of the fuel pump? Maybe something was sucked up and stopped that up but fell off on the way home. We had a similar issue with a foam filled gas tank on one a few years ago. It would stop up at the track but allow us to run on the streets because there was less fuel suckage (a technical term) than when we were running wide open for long periods of time.

Author:  GonzoRacer [ March 6, 2017, 8:26 am ]
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carguy123 wrote:
Do you have a filter on the intake of the fuel pump? Maybe something was sucked up and stopped that up but fell off on the way home. We had a similar issue with a foam filled gas tank on one a few years ago. It would stop up at the track but allow us to run on the streets because there was less fuel suckage (a technical term) than when we were running wide open for long periods of time.
Yes, it's a Walbro pump that normally would be an upgrade for a Mustang. They come with a mesh "foot" on the intake that has some kind of framework inside it and a mesh covering over that. I did have foam in the tank at one time, took it out a year or more ago, but that mesh filter has been in place since day 1.

Yes, fuel pumps that fail at the track have a very high rate of suckage... :evil:

Oh, and I replaced the washers and stuff, put it all back together and installed the new pump in the tank. The thang fired right up and ran fine, no leaks, no fires, no explosions. Kind of an anti-climax, really...

:cheers:
JDK

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