I regret that I have but one thumbs to give for my Angry.
Well done, sir.
I regret that I have but one thumbs to give for my Angry.
Well done, sir.
Awesome, huge congrats!! That's a *huge* leap in the right direction for sure.
Indy - Guy said:In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Who does the first start in their Socks? Angry, that's who!
Well done & Congrats. You're dangerously close to finishing before the Challenge THIS year!
I'm sure those were steel-toed safety socks.
Congratulations!
Carl Heideman said:Indy - Guy said:In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Who does the first start in their Socks? Angry, that's who!
Well done & Congrats. You're dangerously close to finishing before the Challenge THIS year!
I'm sure those were steel-toed safety socks.
Congratulations!
... with grippy soles too!
thanks to all for the kind words, especially you guys who have built a ton of stuff. Your encouragement is a real morale boost to me.
Woooohoooo, it did the thing!
Hell Yeah! That sounds strong!
IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!
Very excited for you! This thread is the first one I check out every time I turn on my computer . Onward!!
Sweet. Sounds good too. See you in a few weeks.
Congrats man! \../
I wanna hear it Rev!
Congrats!
That corvair sounds angry!
Sweet!
Thanks y'all! Inside of three weeks to Gainesville, it's time for a serious push. And thanks to all the new subscribers to my YouTube channel! I'm really blowing up over there. Up 40% in the last 12 hours!
Needs more cam.
Congrats on the start, that's a huge milestone
Hell Yes!!
Killer!!
All that exhaust work you did sure paid off! That sounds incredible!!
Bought an expensive piece of pipe today:
1020 (A513-T5 DOM) 2" od x 0.500" wall. it was in the "really short prime" rack with a 15% discount, but still about $7 / inch. I was hoping to find something in the dollar a pound remnants bin, but no such luck. This will be cut to length, then bored to 27mm on one end and 33mm on the other, to splice the Audi and C5 halfshafts together. I've got a plan B, parts for that will arrive next week.
Awesome milestone! That is quite the "heavy" wall pipe!!
Didn't look up the specs on this but I assume it is way stronger than some cheap 1020.
What material are the axles? I assume you are welding these.
Hell yeah!! Four years must seem like a lifetime, but it sound is like angels singing. Good for you. The finish line is in sight.
In reply to akylekoz :
I have no idea what material the axles are. Not sure where I could get that info. Honestly haven't even looked for that info. Probably should. Yes, the plan is to cut the axles and weld the sleeves to them.
EDIT:
Uselessly generic answer above. "Precision machined solid steel heat treated"
Could probably narrow it down with Rockwell hardness testing?
I'm looking at your axle + sleeve diagram and thinking...is the sleeve going to be a possible single point of failure, or are the axles going to be welded to each other, then the sleeve welded to the axles? Maybe bore a 27mm pocket into the 33mm axle a few mm deep, slide the sleeve onto the 27mm axle, weld the axles to each other, then slide the sleeve up over the joint and weld the sleeve? Sure, that might be overkill, but I would rather have two welds need to fail in order for the axle to break instead of one.
In reply to obsolete :
Tony and I are Engineers with a capital E. I don't say that to suggest that you are not, because IDK. We labored over this a bit and reached these conclusions:
1. This job has to survive the autocross plus N-1 drag runs. As long as N>2, I'm OK with that.
2. Torsional load carried by inside of shaft is a good bit less than that carried by the outside of shaft, so strengthening inside is of little benefit. If the outside will fail, the inside isn't gonna help enough to warrant the effort.
3. Any machine work on axle shafts would require removal of CV joints, and I lost interest after beating one like it stole my mama's groceries and couldn't get the star off the spline. So berkeley that.
sleeve will be slip fit to the two shafts, which we will mark on-car and cut to length leaving a small gap between shafts inside sleeve. Not shown in my crappy sketch: chamfer at ID of sleeve, to provide more weld area on both shafts. Will it be enough? berkeley if I know. Meet me in Gainesville to find out!
here's Tony's sketch:
in other news, 17x11 C4 ZR1 sawblade clears C5 brake, but pokes about 1".
Both these facts are due to the +36 offset. So if this car has a future, it has a future on sawblades. And that means there's a wide body in its future. And I really want that to happen.
Mr_Asa said:Could probably narrow it down with Rockwell hardness testing?
For 2026... 
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