AkumaNoZeta

I hit a guardrail for the very first time in my life while driving on ice for the first time in my life. Not that big deal to me because it was just my Mustang, if it was the Z I would be crying. No more passenger side headlight, the passenger door is hard to open, looks like the whole passenger side was pushed in about an inch or so looking at the hood. Didn't really take that good look around because it's dark outside and I figure might as well weight for daylight, but the engine was lugging the rest of the way home and opening the hood there was an odor of coolant. The guardrail has more damage than my car XD

I just heard that some people make a perimeter frame for unibody cars. What kind of advantages and disadvantages can you think of for that? So far I kinda like the idea but since I wanna keep it IRS the rear may be difficult to fab up, but then that would also give me the option of being able to fab up any IRS system I want from any car pretty much. I also like how I could narrow the front frames so I can make increased steering angle for wider tires keeping inside an unflared body. Welding the sheet metal to the frame should still keep the unibody rigidity right? To me this sounds good but I want to hear from others. I did search for "perimeter frames" and didn't even get a page worth of results so I though this would be good.

Ok, lets say you completely rebuild a diesel engine. You completely do over the head with solid lifters, get a custom crank that under-squares the bores and all that. Would it rev quicker and higher? Would it still be able to be 20:1 compression with boost? Or would that not benefit at all and completely eliminate the reason for having a diesel?

I want that V12. Whats the difference between a cummins and a duramax?

I didn't think I would be this interested in it. I have an all new respect for diesels now...I don't think I'll put one in my Mustang buy my friend is talking about selling his 383 S10 for a Mustang so maybe I could talk him into putting a diesel in that, lol.

The attracting figure is that they usually run 16:1 compression, don't they? And they're built strong so they can probably take a lot of boost and I don't know if diesel fuel has the octane limitation like with gasoline so that maybe you can run like 50 lbs off a turbo and still refuel at a common gas station. Just guessing there because I don't know.

Hey everybody. I've thought about having a diesel engine in my Mustang for a while but never looked into it because I couldn't live with being under 3000 RPMs all the time. Then today I youtubed it and saw this It runs tens and the info on the side said it got 33MPG getting there so it kinda intrigued me again. I'm not motivated enough yet to research anything, just got a general question. Can the RPM potential be increased? What's limiting it and would about 5000 RPM be doable? No details needed but articles about it would be cool

The whole spacetime thing confuses the blah out of me. I always thought of time as an idea created by man and things such as watches and stuff to be mechanical devices so when I think of it I cant see how it's reading would change from differences in traveling speeds. I need to hit up the library and see if they have those books. I want to be smart too.

Wow, really? I wish I was that smart. I can't even work a CADD program ...Then again I tried that without any tutorial or anything, just playing around. But I reformatted my computer shortly after that and lost it

Whats wrong with science? I love science, I may not be any good at it but I love it. The Z is nothing but science, everything in it has been a science experiment at one point or another. I'm in a tech school right now because of my love of cars, but I want to join the military afterwards so I can take the more general classes at college levels such as math and science.

I wasn't gonna take it personally. I strive to learn and understand, that's why I'm here. I already knew the first part you said was false was wrong, I stated that as why I couldn't get any grasp on it at all until I found a way to prove it wrong. I also knew air is a fluid, which is why I made the liquid and hydraulic comparison. I am glad you corrected me on the restricted flow idea of ground anomalies (I spelt that wrong for sure, lol) and I remember wieght of the column thing from my high school physics class now, it was years ago and I've forgotten a lot from it. Thank you for the corrections, any more comments?

A while ago the History Channel had that special on Einstein and I was in and out of it because every time I tried to watch it I was always busy with something else. Well a part that really got me thinking was when one of the guys on there stated that gravity isn't a pulling force from the Earth but in fact a pushing force caused by the deformation of the fabric of space and time. Which is all well and good but then I started to think that if it's pushing down to Earth like that then air pressure should be all the same just like with liquids and hydraulics so that bothered me until I remembered the Bernoulli Principle while reading Race Car aerodynamics and then it all fell into place with me. The air further away has a bigger circumfrence to go around and therefore moves faster causing it's pressure to be lower and the air closer to the ground is slowed down by trees, building, mountains, etc. causing it to be a high pressure. I don't know if it's right or not but it sure helped me understand it.

The wing does look very nice on the Z. Looking at all those photos of the build up your cars make me wish I could still be in Arkansas right now working on mine...I don't get to go back to work on it til the last week of March But I'm saving up as much money as I can to get it running again when I do go back.

Where can I find photos of his car? I tried looking through the member list but couldn't find him (then again I don't know his member nickname thing)

Well, I want it as a street driver and take to the track every now and again. I want additions to be functional and appealing. Maybe I could have the wing and only put it on when at the track, every other time just have something in the mounting holes to prevent nature to seep through inside the car.

The foam sounds like a good idea, but sorry to get off this line of thought but I got a couple more drawings. Still not the technical ones but I lost the printer cartridges to my printer and can print out the pics I wanna trace for them so I'm tracing pics I already have printed out. I changed the hood and added a wing. Who thinks the wing looks to ricer-ish? I'll be doing another one today but putting my 3-peice spoiler on it to see if it looks better. The side veiw one is why I'm tracing and not doing freehand, I'm not happy with my free hand drawings.

How good does it do to prevent air from leaking out?

I always presumed they were used because they're built to last longer and a lot lighter. I thought that because every fast car I've seen had one, even just street rods not built for any particular class or anything.

Foam? I've never heard of that

What needs is the fuel cell designed to satisfy?

How much? With sender?

It was all gonna be sealed up like that anyways. But by eliminating the intake from the hood I don't know where else I could effciently put it unless I do the V-mount idea. I don't think it should be too hard to duct and seal the V-mount if I have sufficient enough at cutting and welding which I'm learning to do now in school

So if I have the same type of louvers on both sides it would be a lot better? I don't think I could put the intake at the cowl because that would be a very sharp bend. Maybe if I do a V-mount with the intercooler and radiator and have the intake inside of the V? The ducting for that would be a little more difficult but get nice cold air for the intake as well improve cooling to both the heat exchangers, right?

I just like to waste money. Whenever I have the oppurtunity to replace something I always try to upgrade it. Like when I burnt out the hard drive to my laptop I got a bigger, faster one and one of those cooling mats to make sure I don't burn this one out. When the rubber grommet/spacer thing for the clutch cable on my Mustang deteriated I got an aluminum firewall adjuster to replace it. Its just how I am I guess. I'll end up putting a fuel cell in it eventually, might as well just go ahead and do it.

But my fuel tank has a pretty big hole in it. We discovered it when we pulled it up on a tow truck and fuel spilled out of it like a waterfall. I don't need it to be too precise, just an idea where it's at, because I usually don't let it go past a quarter tank. Or did you mean I can install a GM sender in the steel fuel cell?