Random thoughts thread

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

No, that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying advanced graduate classes are basically everyone gets an A, except people who really suck. Typically people enrolled in said classes are competent. Otherwise, the professor gives whatever grades they think are appropriate.


@Dimman dude, flying buttress C pillars are WAY too hard to fabricate correctly. I sketched some up and tried imagining every possible way to create them, there's pretty much no way to avoid either having to do multiple large pieces that fit together perfectly (never gonna happen) or carefully sanding down over 50% of the material out of a giant block of foam or something. Simply making a shell and cutting holes into it negates most of the potential.
This fabrication business is too tricky...I think I'll stick to primitive bending flat sheets. Actually cutting holes into stuff doesn't look so bad if you cut a pretty shape, maybe I should do that

On that note, thinking about car shit is eating too much time, I need to stop.

I think you're on the right track with your foam idea. But in more than a single step. You could rough out the shape by gluing cut-out shapes made from foam insulation boards together. So you start with a 'faceted' shape. Sand that to your final shape. Then wrap that that with fiberglass. Use wood glue to bond the foam together and epoxy instead of polyesther resin for the fiberglass so it doesn't dissolve the core.

If you wanted to be hardcore you would use these as patterns to make molds for 2 piece composite pieces that could be used for pretty carbon fiber ones.

[Snoopyalien24]

Oh and also did this while procrastinating

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...&postcount=375

[SVTSHC]

Originally Posted by travace

Let's keep anything related to politics off the forums

[M-17]

So soccer is now the second most popular sport for ages 12-24 right behind football.

Maybe Americans are getting closer to embracing soccer after all.

[travace]

Originally Posted by SVTSHC

Let's keep anything related to politics off the forums

Random Thoughts is Random

[artizhay]

Originally Posted by travace

Random Thoughts is Random

OT Rules are Rules.
No Politics or Religion discussions please

[M-17]

Originally Posted by artizhay

OT Rules are Rules.
No Politics or Religion discussions please

[Guff]

Fifteen G's and some overnight parts from Japan and this thing will decimate at Race Wars.

[Calum]

haha



2 Jay Z swap, with NAS

come on, someone had to.

[shadoquad]

ROFL!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by M-17

So soccer is now the second most popular sport for ages 12-24 right behind football.

Maybe Americans are getting closer to embracing soccer after all.

I've got a player (Keeper) in my household in that age group.

I've always enjoyed watching and even helped run the sidelines for my college team and belonged to the same fraternity as the players, but I don't get the whole "it's OK to have a game end in a tie" thing.

Our local NASL team (which we go to most of the home games for) has a 7W 8T 12L record for the season and even the first place team has 7T in their record. Even worse, two the games we've attended have been 0-0 ties!

Of course, a tie is infinitely better to me then "winning" based on a penalty shoot-out. I'd almost rather they flip a coin.

OK, I'm done now.

[Dadhawk]

The voicemail number for Verizon Wireless is *86.

[shadoquad]

Thinking of buying an FT86 as DD vehicle. Having trouble deciding. If the twins were each about 5k cheaper, this would be an absolute no brainer.

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Dimman

I think you're on the right track with your foam idea. But in more than a single step. You could rough out the shape by gluing cut-out shapes made from foam insulation boards together. So you start with a 'faceted' shape. Sand that to your final shape. Then wrap that that with fiberglass. Use wood glue to bond the foam together and epoxy instead of polyesther resin for the fiberglass so it doesn't dissolve the core.

If you wanted to be hardcore you would use these as patterns to make molds for 2 piece composite pieces that could be used for pretty carbon fiber ones.

Yea, too complicated. I had this other idea that was taking ABS sheet, bending it with straight bends to get a sort of approximate shape (think Corvette rear glass, although from eyeballing and knowing that their C_d isn't super great for the amount of side taper they use, I think there are strong vortices coming off the top edge of the body-greenhouse or "fuselage" if you know what I mean...).

Then SPRAY ON FOAM. Sand it for curvature. Reinforce with fiberglass, or just be lazy and spray many many cans of clear coat on until there's so much acrylic on there that it's got some structural integrity to it. Similarly, spraying the inside with foam to make the "duct" structure shouldn't be too hard to do either although the sanding work gets more delicate.

Maybe the easier route is just to have 100-200 odd k lying around and just buy a supercar with this shit designed into it already McLaren said they were making a more affordable car right?

Seriously though, flying buttress C pillars are one of the coolest things ever. It lets you use less taper on the rear window glass for a wider range of view, it allows you to more or less match the side tapering of the C pillar to the side taper of the body, and it more closely matches together the velocities of the air flowing over the roof and the air flowing along the side when they meet. For a notchback window configuration, it's a total no brainer aside from the cost it takes to develop.
But most importantly, scoops look badass.