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NashGTI
NashGTI Reader
9/13/24 11:44 p.m.
Piguin said:

Hoping you'll grace us with a video of it running around, just to hear the thing in action.

I still need to get the new GoPro mount 3d printed and then I'll get some video driving it around.  It was so hot I didn't do much to the car through the summer.  Once it began to cool off in August I did some additional tuning work to it and have driven it around outside town a couple times.  There has been talk of getting back out to that cruise in with at least one other car from work but that hasn't happened.

I need to do better, don't even have any good new pictures

Piguin
Piguin Reader
9/13/24 11:52 p.m.

Every new picture is a good picture - that thing looks awesome.

Dusterbd13-michael
Dusterbd13-michael MegaDork
9/14/24 6:46 a.m.

Yeah, this thing is way cooler than anything I've built. Thanks for taking us along!!

NashGTI
NashGTI Reader
9/21/24 11:17 a.m.

 

Cruise in last night, ended up with decent looking company.  The Dino and Jag both got there after I did, maybe I'm the only one but I get a feeling of pride and accomplishment when I go to something like that and cars that I think are some of the coolest there park next/near to me.  Maybe that's just me being weird though.  I did talk to more people last night than the other two car show outings with the car combined I believe even though I was only there for about an hour and fifteen minutes.  

Was going to go out again today to another show this morning but rain put a damper on those plans.

NashGTI
NashGTI Reader
10/11/24 1:40 p.m.

 

Finally have a way to strap the car into the trailer after a year. Planning to take the car to a little show and hang out over in west Tennessee tomorrow.

buzzboy
buzzboy UltraDork
10/12/24 12:06 p.m.

I've been looking at that style of wheel tie downs as I have a BUNCH of salvaged Etrack. How is the Etrack attached to your floor?

Apexcarver
Apexcarver MegaDork
10/12/24 12:53 p.m.

I have similar for my F500, I have bolts with big fender washers on the back side of the floor plywood. That said, my car weighs 650lbs without driver. 

NashGTI
NashGTI Reader
10/12/24 5:57 p.m.
buzzboy said:

I've been looking at that style of wheel tie downs as I have a BUNCH of salvaged Etrack. How is the Etrack attached to your floor?

Bolted through the plywood, I cut 16 dogbone washers out of 3/16 on the plasma table to clamp to the back side. Each section of E Track has 8 bolts.

 

 

Made it to the he show, on the way home now. Was a good time and maybe drummed up some work for the shop.  And the Belair won a best in show trophy.

NashGTI
NashGTI Reader
10/20/24 6:20 p.m.

 

 

Well I tried.  I went for a drive today and remembered to take the GoPro with me, unfortunately I left the external mic at the house so the audio is almost entirely garbage.  To top that off I didn't check the camera angle at any point until I was back home so most of the screen is just the back of my helmet.

So the video is all a bust, I did take a couple decent pictures though, so that's all I have to share. 

 

Edit:

So here is a mash up I uploaded of the parts that aren't completely useless.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBXUUeQp4AP/

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