Fuel stuff for the gasoline part: Aeromotive A1000, reg, filter, 16 gallon fuel cell. I acquired a nifty sealed mechanical fuel level gauge from work, had to cut it up and rework it for my application though. I will make an o-ringed aluminum bulkhead fitting for it sometime. I found a cool heat exchanger at the scrapyard that I am going to make a fuel cooler out of. It's about 5 ft long, so I will cut it down and put it under the car in the feed line running from the cell to the engine.

Before:

Reworked:







Driver side seat. Getting a Kirkey for the passenger, might have to sell the Sparco and get a Kirkey for the driver side too because it doesn't have a submarine belt hole.




Ripped the interior out in preparation for the cage. I was really tired and the heater core wouldn't come out, so it got the hammer. Turns out I had the engine side capped with clamps, came right out after I took them off. Cage is a Jegster 10 point kit. Crappy ERW mild tubing, but it was only like $250 and NHRA legal.

 

Cages are fun stuff! I know I had tons of fun making mine

 

That's some awesome work. Dunno about the "budget" part of it, but slick nonetheless.

 

so these are going to be barrel throttle bodies huh? thats pretty cool

do you have a screen shot of your CAD work for it?

 

Um, how do you know if it's full or empty. There isn't an E or F marked on it????

 

The first thing I said to myself about this thread was 'budget build...his budget must be more than mine!!!!' All that machine time cost most of us much $$$$. This build is VERY impressive though!

Looks extremely nice. I am tuned in and anxiously awaiting future pictures!

 

To me the bars go from wide to narrow...intuitively to me that means full on the right and empty on the left...

 

idk man, dont be too sure.. he might be on to something

 

Seeing this threads makes me feel I choose the wrong engineering discipline. M.E.s have all the fun!!!

 

hmm im waiting to see this turn out

good work!

 

Nice float gauge. I know where that came from. I work with him as a coop as well and am working on some parts of my own. His work is impressive none the less. Can't beat free machine work.

 

man i need to learn how to use those machines

 

you can have your own automated CNC milling machine for about 1200K
to play with at home...

Harbor frieght mini mill
and a kit that comes with servo motors etc to convert it to cnc
check out the vids on youtube pretty neat..

 

120k? we are buying an older hitachi with fanuc controls for 2500.... (instead of buying the spindle indexing sensor for 1500 for the sister machine we already have )

 

1200K = $1,200 USD aka 1 thousand two hundred

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XUWquLnS4PA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ujaQNg-FRX8

 

Dammit, you were not supposed to see that. I was told they wouldn't remember anything about it if they set it in my office and it happened to disappear.

 

hahah its cool i never saw it. I got my blocks milled down ok after work today.

 

that is ALOT of milling. setting up them programs takes so much time. superb work.
CNC is one of the best things to come around i always said.

 

fyi - 1200k is 1.2mil

 

This looks just like the float gauge in my mower (exmark). Anyway, kudos to you for an amazing job so far. Looks great. Can't wait to see how the throttle body turns out.

 

Wow it amazes me how some people mechanically don't see how something works. Look at the white pluger at the bottom. Depending on the fluid level, the plunger will lower or raise and twist the dial showing you a specific liguid level. Now you also notice why I say liguid and not fuel? That's because this type of gauge will work in any liguid. As long as the pluger is less dense that the liquid it's floating in, it will float. That's todays science lessen.

 

He is just screwin around, I told him about this engineer at work that actually had asked that question.

 

how are you planning on sealing your barrel throttle bodies?

 

Duct tape

 

Furloaf is/was just ******* around. He is literally one of the smartest people in the world. He was just being facetious.

Jackson