Mythbusters raises question
11-09-2010, 10:59 PM
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Mythbusters raises question
I have been following this Mythbusters story for some time now. It leads me to a question that was also presented to me in the Brian Long 928 book.
The 928s appear to be assembled with a rolling drivetrain and body married at a point in the build process. How involved would it be to remove the body from the car so you could work on the rolling chassis, engine, tranny and such as a complete unit?
The 928s appear to be assembled with a rolling drivetrain and body married at a point in the build process. How involved would it be to remove the body from the car so you could work on the rolling chassis, engine, tranny and such as a complete unit?
11-09-2010, 11:26 PM
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all you would need is the cart thats supports the engine and rear and the wheels IIRC the supports are 1 inch or so pins that locate different parts of the chassis. Then you would also need a lift to raise the body
11-10-2010, 02:24 AM
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I was looking at the mythbusters car at SEMA on friday . What a mess ! A big hack job . A unit body car dosen't come apart very well at all . And the guys that took that car apart deserve bad karma . Terry
11-10-2010, 09:46 AM
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I guess the question is: If you had the lift, would it be easier to just lift the body off and work on the engine rather than take the engine out of the car? You could then roll the rolling chassis forward and have everything right there for you to work on.
11-10-2010, 09:59 AM
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I've set my DVR to record the show and I'm still hoping that besides their pointless, unscientific experiment, they also did the real science and just parked the damn thing in a wind tunnel backwards.
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11-10-2010, 05:42 PM
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I think I just noticed something that will invalidate their "experiment". They way that car is laid out, aren't the intake pipes are pulling in hot engine compartment air? And if they are measuring top speed, won't pulling in that hot air reduce peak hp, and thus, top speed?
11-10-2010, 05:50 PM
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When you lift off the uni body the front suspension has nothing to attach to nor do the front of the rear trailing arms so it is NOT a roller just a pile of parts still attached to each other.
11-10-2010, 05:55 PM
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John as poorly crafted as it is there are lots of places for the air to get in and get out...... 
Plus I thought they were going to drive around and then COMPARE miles per gallon !!! That is real scientific.
Plus I thought they were going to drive around and then COMPARE miles per gallon !!! That is real scientific.
11-10-2010, 06:08 PM
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These guys are at very best a pair of jacka$$es, on a good day. And I felt that long before this stunt. Of course I am not certain that is fair to all the mules of the world.....
11-10-2010, 06:18 PM
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Theyre both very smart people...theyre delivering to a market segment with what the average 12yr old propeller head enjoys watching..and they make it fun.
They're not doing a study in physics as a show.
A number of copycat shows have TRIED to brain up the formula, and failed miiiiserably.
