Thread: Building A looper Beast

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    Tim Weber
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    Awesome!

    I can't even wrap my arms around this project.

    How much do you think it will weigh? I'm guessing 150-180#'s. What boat will you run it on? That thing will need a lot of boat.
    What is your guess for H.P.? It wouldn't surprise me if it put out 200-250.

    Tim

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    Quote Originally Posted by R Austin View Post
    I quess I will take this opertunitity to plug my boat and trailer rig.

    The first four pics are from Roar and Soar in 2010. The fourth pic is of my dad who looks forward to seeing the new motor run. I take him to the hanger some weekend days when he is up to it. He is now 90. He cretiques my work and keeps aksing if it is going to be to heavy.

    The next four are a repair of the boat on the back, M-211. The skins were starting to peel off and leaked badly at Roar and Soar. So I removed and replaced them with some mods sent to me by Ron Jones. That took up all of the winter, spring and fall of 2011. Did not make any trips that year.

    The last two were taken at Hillsdale last fall when we ran the 6 Looper. The M-211 is the M-14 on the rear of the trailer (left in pic) after completing the rebuild. I returned it to its original condition and number when new in 1966.


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    Glad to see your Dad is still keeping an eye on you. I always enjoyed talking to him.

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    Default Many, many thanks to dick austin...............

    ..................and everyone else involved for keeping this part of our history alive, not only in pictures and story, but with the actual equipment itself, and amazingly still capable of running laps..

    As I have commented several times here on BRF, there is nothing sweeter or more memorable regarding the "Golden Years" of Alky racing than the sound of a Flathead Six "wailing in anger" on a race course. I used to hear that sound in the late 60's/early 70's while on the road to Lake DePue from US#6, at least 5 miles from there, and no doubt is could be heard further than that. It sent shivers down my spine then and hopefully I will be around when it happens again for that sound and the same reaction.

    Thanks again as Dick Austin's and J.W. Meyers projects come to fruition, hopefully in 2013.

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    What is your race schedule this year?

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    Fantastic stuff
    The pictures dont give justice as to how many hours went into all that.
    Well done

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    Great pictures. I love those rigs. Nice looking job on the restoration work too.

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    Thanks for the comments on the boats.. Do not run boats for racing, just for the addrenillin rush form the past and it feels as good today as back in the day. Just knowing that, unlike the foolish kid in the past, I could get hurt today. I dont think that I would heal good nowdays. So I do it just for have fun and let those that know the site and sound to see it again and those that have never seen them before, just make the comments "I have never seen or heard anything like It."

    I could not even begin to count the hours invested in the trailer and its load. Just enjoy keeping them alive and well.

    Why this project, I think at this point, I have just gone over the edge. Obsessed..................... However I will see it to the end.

    I will contine with a few more photos of the mold forms for the core that goes in the exhaust elbow casting and loading them with sand. Following that are photos at the foundry making a test run of the molds. The foundry, Century Foundry in Muskegon Mi., just 60 miles south, is a great asset for me. They are about 60 people strong and willing to try what looks reasonable. Sometimes smaller is better. Makes them more flexable and work you into their system without the usual, we do'nt have time. To them thanks for taking the time. It is not free, but reasonable, and whole lot better than being turned away.

    After the core photos, one half of the mold is layed flat on a board with a box around it and covered with air set sand, a resin/hardner mix, and packed on the mold. Fifteen minutes to harden and then turned over. The other mold half with dowels, is alligned on the first half to complete the sand pocket. Before sand is placed on it, a stick with a nail tip is stuck in the sand to make the pore hole and two insulated tower tubes are placed to form risers, shrink towers. These will be gated into the pour and will fill with metal and feed back into the casting as it shrinks to avoid internal voids or deforming from the shrinkage. The tubes are covered and sand is then placed over the top, packed and allowed to cured.

    As usual to be continued.


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    Fantastic---

    Those elbows look like die castings! It's amazing what you can do with a foundry that knows what its doing and a perfectionist making the patterns and calling the shots. I'd sure love to put a rope on the beast or will it be electric start? When I was in the race group at OMC we were trying Counter rotation on the Switzer Wing and to decide which way to rotate the 125 hp engine I would rope start the left hand rotation engine. That was a couple of years ago!
    KEEP HUMPING,
    Bruce

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    What you have seen in the previous post is just the pattern for the castings. The pattern is sprayed with a release agent of an aluminum like powder and that is why it looks like a die cast part. This series will complete the casting process. After loading with sand the sand is pulled apart and the pattern removed. The gateing is then ground into the sand. Once that is completed the core is placed in positon, cleaned out with an air hose and the top half of the mold placed back into position. you will notice the pockets ground in the corners before the placement of the top side sand. Those make locaters for holding alignment after placeing the top and removing the box assemblies. The halves are then clamped together for the pouring.

    Like magic, an elbow is created.

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    May I suggest starting a new thread since this one is now buried on page 3.

    Jeff

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