Ace-Garageguy

Interesting and relevant article here, with input from Tim Boyd... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-mystery-of-miss-deal.797091/

Here's a few more performance manifolds for the old slant-6.

Here's a long-runner single 4-bbl manifold... ...and triple Webers. Much better solutions to the lotta-carb thing.

Hang on for at least six more pages of fact-free speculation.

Hmmmmm.....somebody's engineering-logic-free attempt at what, exactly? Looks cool (maybe...if you really don't know anything about engines) but those manifold pipes with multiple up-and-over sharp turns play hell with keeping atomized fuel in suspension, make tuning more difficult, and introduce an additional level of unnecessary complexity if the valve cover needs to be removed. It would have been far wiser, if somebody just HAD to have really long manifold runners, to relocate the battery (if necessary) and put both carbs on THIS side. There's a logical REASON for a cross-ram on a V8: it provides for longer relatively STRAIGHT runners that otherwise wouldn't fit. This setup, on the other hand, is just me-too dorky.

All PRIVATELY FUNDED. And if it HAD been "taxpayer" dollars, I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER USE FOR THEM. But PRIVATE INDUSTRY is taking over with a level of efficiency that bloated bureaucracy-laden taxpayer-funded NASA lost decades ago. https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/31/nasas-safety-bureaucracy-tips-scales-private-space/

on muskrat wine

Indeed sir.

Exactly. And you wouldn't risk a high-dollar payload on the test flight of a new booster configuration anyway.

Why do you say that?

Maybe we should say "the fastest car in human-known space"...

Monogram has made several Model A kits that would have the engine you need in 1/24 scale.

The EARLY Monogram kit is by far the BEST of the stock-buildable '34s, but it is 1/24. Yes, the '34 4 cylinder is just about identical to a '32, which is visually very similar to a model-A engine. Of the other available '34 kits (on eBay, fairly cheap), the 1/25 AMT 5-window coupe is best. Then the AMT 2-door sedan..but it has more problems with proportions. The AMT 3-window coupe is trash.

Speaking of which, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that asteroid mining is on Musk's long-term agenda. Although the resumption of manned exploration of space is as cool as it gets, some kind of mega-dollar commercialization is going to be necessary to continue. http://deepspaceindustries.com/mining/

Someday, some alien species really ought to get a good laugh from that.

Usually not. An intercooler won't work well with a suck-through-carb system, as fuel tends to come out of suspension and puddle. Rough running and difficult tuning because of uneven fuel distribution result. Intercoolers will work with blow-through-carb systems (the charge air is cooled BEFORE picking up fuel) but they weren't common on cars. Incidentally...the best way to build a blow-through system is to put the entire carb in a sealed air-box. This simplifies tuning because RELATIVE pressures through the carb venturi are maintained. The box also eliminates difficult throttle-shaft sealing problems, float-bowl venting problems, and crushed floats. Only a fuel supply line, a throttle cable, and vacuum advance / retard lines, all very easy to seal, need to be run through the wall of the box.

Yes, but this was a test of a new heavy-lift booster lashup, kinda like the old Saturn 5. The test of the booster retrieval system where the things land under power and can be reused is new too...though they did it with one earlier. One of the things that made the NASA space program so expensive was the use-once-and-throw-away concept of the old booster engines. Musk is really trying to contain cost by eliminating as much waste as possible.

Quite some time ago, I bought a horrible gluebomb mess of this kit. No box, no instructions, no decals, and missing a few parts...but restorable. First issued in 1970 and again in '71, I haven't seen many since then, and all of 'em are expensive or trashed. Since I had no instructions, I started researching the thing, and found an article in an old bike mag with lotsa pix of the model, starting on page 56. After figuring out more-or-less what was long gone, I was able to snag a couple more junk Harley kits for the missing bits, and for the VERY important 21" front wheel the REAL Bronson bike had, but that the kit and most of the clones don't get right. The larger wheel (the kit has a 19" rim) really makes the look of the bike, far as I'm concerned...and in 1/8 scale, it's quite noticeable. The build has been on the bench for about a week now, and has taken on a life of its own...much scratchbuilding, some machine work...and I've learned more about real bikes in the past week than I ever knew previously.

It wasn't "we", as in the government or NASA. It was Elon Musk's company SpaceX, using one of his own cars as a publicity stunt, but also as the dummy weight for the test of the largest rocket booster on Earth at the present time. Musk is serious about taking humanity on towards its next great adventure...the colonization of Mars...and this is one of the first major steps.

Yup. Pretty significant accomplishment. Elon Musk's engineers seem to be worth what they're getting paid.

VERY nice.

possum an' grits

COOL !! You beat me to it. Looks great.

https://www.wthr.com/article/spacexs-rocket-blasted-off-tuesday-on-its-first-test-flight