daigo

Yes Chris, do tell the story of the crossmember, very interesting.

Kool

Chris.

How about you tell the story on everything.

fwb42

can I guess-----Rolex

RolexNJ

I could only wish.

And Chris, who's beautiful blue car is that?

future

Chris the 3rd picture of your car in the snow looks simply gorgeous - Nice to see some different wheels again

Chris White

OK, back from a day of meetings in Philly…
Lets see if I can answer this in order…

“the last tool” – I love these for engine work, engine stands that have a rotary crank. If you set up an engine so it is well balanced with the head on it will be way bottom heavy with the head off. With the crank you can spin it with great ease and have it stop anywhere you want. If you shop they are about $200 and worth ten time the $50 engine stand!

“Wind tunnel work” Yep (this will cover a couple questions!) To get a good testing model we took the 1/24 scale model 951 (quite accurate) and did a point cloud laser scan to create a solid works model. The larger model was made with a rapid prototyping machine. The aerodynamic testing was done in Cornel University’s rolling road wind tunnel. We benchline dthe stock model and then did some testing with wings and air dams. Drag and lifts numbers were generated, other things to come as time permits.

Naw, no speakers/stereo…the power relays are part of the Tec standalone wiring.

Not my car. It’s a customer’s car from California (not a Rennlister). Started out at Huntley’s shop long ago (really bad cage – in fact I named it the ‘death cage’ and refused to drive it on the street). The car was shipped to me quite a while ago to ‘clean it up’ and make it run right. I did a lot of tweaking, wiring and a turbo swap. I enlisted a fellow rennlister and local buddy of mine – John Hajny of Redline Rennsport to paint the car and redo the cage. John outdid himself with the cage by integrating it into the interior. The cage is made tight to the body with SFI spec foam. It was then shaped with dense foam filler and wrapped with headliner material. The end result is very nice – much better in person. This is the only caged 944 that I have no problems driving on the street without a helmet! The paint is first class also.

Yes, the aero study started out as a development project for Guns GTR project

I will add some more cage shots in another thread – it’s a first class fully welded in race style cage for the street.

“ok Youve forced me I have to say it again
"CHRIS YOUR LIVING IN A PORNO MOVIE " I hate you “ - Um, yeah….944 Enhancement is just my porno name….!

The seats a Recaro leather on a one piece FIA bucket. Don’t ask about the price…

There was a 951 RC body a long time ago. I search for one as a starting point for the wind tunnel testing. I found one copy and the owner was a collector type – no amount of $ would convince him to sell it. The end aero model would have cost more than $3k to make with out the help of some creative Cornell grad students.

The crossover – yes that’s a custom made steel part for a number of reasons. It will allow the engine to sit lower, its easy to weld on any additional brackets and the best reason – it will be welded in place for the track car with the fiberglass front clip. That will help with stiffening the front end.

Dry sump pan – you can’t really see it but it is a couple of inches shorter for better ground clearance. I could have shortened it up a bit more but there is no real advantage to that. You can’t see it but the pickups are not just welded on bungs, there is a little more to it. Also the engine has a full scraper/windage tray.

The parts on the blue tray are for a 3.1 8v engine that is bound for Europe, all the best parts and the same head work that was used on the 2.7 liter 440rwhp @ 16psi car from last year. So this one has .4 more liters and the 4 into 1 SFR headers….gonna be big power!

You can spot some of Rolex’s parts in the background behind the engine. I am (finally) starting to assembly his engine and it will be tuned following the completion of the dry sump engine – the cylinder heads are similar enough that the test done on the dry sump engine (my track engine) will be used on his. Thankfully Rob is a patient person!

The car is actually silver….2.8 large bore (106) with lots and lots of SFR goodies and a Vitesse stage2. Kind of hard to tune that kind of power with snow and cold weather….! The interesting back story is that the father of the current owner was the original owner, a lot of sentimental value there.

18” HRE wheels….nice…but the price is not for the faint of heart.

Any other questions?!?

adrian1

Which Solid Works program do you have? How do you compare to CAD. I know there are three types of solids works ranging from $3000-$9000

CPR

Yep, just one.

Who makes that S.S. work bench with the nice wide drawers in pic #4?

Nice looking S.S.rolling bins and work areas also

Van

Wow, you have been busy.

I'd like to know more about your wind tunnel test conclusions...

95ONE

That 60-2 wheel looks alot different that the one you sold me. Is that an upgrade? Are you going to mount the sensor on the A/C compressor bracket?

Chris White

Custom fabbed by me!
The garage cabinet stuff was pretty reasonably priced - I installed it with an extra 8" gap behind so I could fab up a stainless counter top that was deeper than normal. The top sheet was made up at a HVAC shop (they have great sheet metal gear) with a built in back splash and the front edge was 'hemmed' (180 degree bend at the botoom edge). Came out nice!

Chris White

Its the same but with some extra lightening holes in it,
Actualy I am still fitting the monster pump (see pics of parts on the bench) so the actual position is not set in stone.

CPR

[QUOTE=Chris White;6296804]Custom fabbed by me!
The garage cabinet stuff was pretty reasonably priced - I installed it with an extra 8" gap behind so I could fab up a stainless counter top that was deeper than normal. The top sheet was made up at a HVAC shop (they have great sheet metal gear) with a built in back splash and the front edge was 'hemmed' (180 degree bend at the botoom edge). Came out nice![/QUOTE]

You aren't kidding! That work space is sweeeeet.

fortysixandtwo

There's only one SolidWorks program, but there are probably a few dozen add on programs that expand the capability of the base program.
For what he had done, they probably used either a CMM (coordiant measuring machine) or 3D scanner that has the capability to export into a format that SW can use. I haven't worked with a 3D scanner, but a point cloud is a typical commant for a CMM. Put a zero point on, take a few hundred or so points and you'll have a nice CAD based shell of what you were measuring.