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yeah, I wouldn't lay under the car if it's on those, and the surface has to be perfectly smooth, like a concrete garage floor. I actually had my car on them (just 2 wheels) when I was skinning the car and rolled it around the garage very easily. As you said, if it collapses, the car falls 3 inches.

http://wtfcalls.net/reddit/xmas_light_wtf.php :lol:

nah btw, I was just kidding with my post before yours.

Yup, those will work perfectly fine. They look like the $9 ones from Harbor Freight, right? I think those say up to 900 lbs. So, they'll work even for my car. I've had my drivetrain on one before at 700 lbs with no problem.

What is it with people chopping up cars like that

http://i48.tinypic.com/2r6lbvm.jpg

Al, be sure to give Radial Tire in Silver Spring, MD a call to price your tires. Ask for Sam and mention usa7s

really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Well, no working on it this week. Weather has been cold or rainy. Today is nice, but I'm working. Still have some 'glassing to do, but so far, so good. Here is the last pic from Sunday.

sounds like we have a little challenge going on here

:sadangel: Loren, Sorry to hear about your aunt and grandmother. It is reassuring that your Mom seems to be making a pretty rapid recovery. Our thoughts are with you and your loved ones.

Leave it to Hank. LOL Welcome aboard. Nice ride, and love the shot in the crate box.

LOG will be there next year IIRC

Todd, It was nice to meet you. Nice driving. Man, sucks about the car in front of you crashing like that. Glad he is ok. I saw that Mustang run. pretty loud, and he opened up a pretty big gap between itself and the 2 914's and the GT40 pretty quickly. The red Lotus that was running with the big bore cars started in the back of the pack and was in 4th place behind the GT40 after 3 or 4 laps. We left after that, as I had alot of work to do on the car. Cheers.

k, I have the wiper assembly in my hand. Can anyone tell me if any other wiper arms fit on it besides Caterham? Also, if you have a pic of how the motor is mounted in a caterham installation, that'd be great.

and the last pic

Dale, thanks. I will get that. Continuing on with my project, the next step is to close the big gap between the hood scoop and the nose piece that I just glassed in. I'm quite sure this is not the proper way to do this, but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway. First thing I needed was an easy way to approximate the shape of what I needed to make. After some examining, it seemed like the last inch or so of the hood scoop section was starting to slope down too early, but the slope before that section was just right. So I used some pieces of wood and duct tape to rough shape the form, then glassed on top of that with a couple of vertical pieces of wood so that it holds its shape. I don't have any release agent or gel coat (yikes), but the shape is not complex, so I decided to give a wax sheet a try, and it worked really well. I laid the fiberglass on the wax sheet, and laid the wax sheet in the form - this also smoothed out the relatively bumpy mold, which was intended to just get the general shape. The last couple of pics show the fit around the existing parts. So far so good. I will lay the last bend down to the hood after the parts are joined. One thing I have learned to take more time in working out the bubbles... there are a few on the surface. The wax paper approach worked really well. The surface is actually very smooth.

There are some really good youtube videos on this subject...

This is not the one I was thinking of, but it can also go offroad http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/65304979_offroad7.jpg

yes. There is a 7 that does off road rallies. There is a picture of it floating around here somewhere

well, finally decided it's time to do something with the nose and hood. I had never played with fiberglass, and had mentally been putting it off. Turned out to be pretty easy and fun. The challenge with this part was that it didn't really fit the curvature of the nose, so it took some sanding. Also as you can see, this Rotus was red before it was green. The next challenge is extend the hood scoop to meet up with the section on the nose.

Tiger Woods injured in a car accident at 2:30AM this morning. Apparently no alcohol involved, but charges may be pending.

Rainy here too, so going to spend some quality time working on the nose cone tonight

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!