Project BLUEprint, 1965 Falcon

[wellis77]

Looks great Bryce. Looking forward to seeing it on the ground!

[454bug]

Great progress Bryce! Everything looks great!!

[Wesley J]

Great progress Bryce. That all looks awefully familiar, seems us Engineers think alike. I guess some would say morons seldom differ though....

Your going to love the 3 link, my car is quite planted and balanced.

[Bryce]

lookin great bryce cant wait to see it in person
john

Thanks John. Maybe it will be driveable before the new year!

[Bryce]

Looks great Bryce. Looking forward to seeing it on the ground!

thanks! me too. This week for sure.

[Bryce]

Great progress Bryce. That all looks awefully familiar, seems us Engineers think alike. I guess some would say morons seldom differ though....

Your going to love the 3 link, my car is quite planted and balanced.

Engineers have to make everything so complicated. I probably would have been fine with fiberglass leafs with spherical spring eyes and a watts link. The main advantage of running the 3-link (besides suspension geometry) is the tire I can fit now! Before my max tire size was a 245 now I have a 275.

[Bryce]

Great progress Bryce! Everything looks great!!

thanks Ray.

[Bryce]

I agree big improvement Bryce!

Oh, HECK YEAH!!

Thanks guys.

[Bjkadron]

AWESOME!!!! Looks Great! The 275's look just right! Hurry up and get it down! I want to see the stance!
Also I don't see many people who mark datum lines on stuff while they put it together. Come to think of it I don't know too many people who know what a Datum line is!

[Bjkadron]

Engineers have to make everything so complicated. I probably would have been fine with fiberglass leafs with spherical spring eyes and a watts link. The main advantage of running the 3-link (besides suspension geometry) is the tire I can fit now! Before my max tire size was a 245 now I have a 275.

I know I do... But! I challenged myself to see what I could do with the stock pick-up points on everything before I went nuts.
Speaking of which, Do you know anyone who does Clamp on Stuff for 3.5 axle tubes? I'd like to do the clamp on stuff so I can just move it when I do the three-link.

[srh3trinity]

Engineers have to make everything so complicated. I probably would have been fine with fiberglass leafs with spherical spring eyes and a watts link. The main advantage of running the 3-link (besides suspension geometry) is the tire I can fit now! Before my max tire size was a 245 now I have a 275.

Growing up as the son of a PhD level EE, I can confirm this. My dad and I went rounds when he helped me with Calculus homework. I am the only "non-math" person in my family. Dad is EE, Aunt is a math teacher, her husband is EE. Brother was a Engineering major and my sister is a math teacher. My first cousins are Computer Engineer, PhD Mechanical Engineer and Civil Engineer. Their husbands are all engineers and one of them has degrees in Comp Eng, Mechanical and Electrical. So, I have been around when all of these people were building a garage. Needless to say, it was overbuilt, under budget and there was plenty of "discussion" amongst all of these engineers as to which was the best way to do something. I have a science background, but I am certainly not an engineer, so I just drove the nails and made the cuts where I was told. I guess I am the black sheep, but some of it did rub off on me. I get by and I really like to put thought into how something should go together for strength and other factors, I just don't do it for a living.
All these engineers at a Thanksgiving dinner table can be really interesting. Now if I could only get some of them involved in building my car.

[Bryce]

AWESOME!!!! Looks Great! The 275's look just right! Hurry up and get it down! I want to see the stance!
Also I don't see many people who mark datum lines on stuff while they put it together. Come to think of it I don't know too many people who know what a Datum line is!

HAHA, good eye!

[Bryce]

I know I do... But! I challenged myself to see what I could do with the stock pick-up points on everything before I went nuts.
Speaking of which, Do you know anyone who does Clamp on Stuff for 3.5 axle tubes? I'd like to do the clamp on stuff so I can just move it when I do the three-link.

you have a 3.5" axle tube?

I cant think of anyone maybe some offroad guys?

[Bryce]

Growing up as the son of a PhD level EE, I can confirm this. My dad and I went rounds when he helped me with Calculus homework. I am the only "non-math" person in my family. Dad is EE, Aunt is a math teacher, her husband is EE. Brother was a Engineering major and my sister is a math teacher. My first cousins are Computer Engineer, PhD Mechanical Engineer and Civil Engineer. Their husbands are all engineers and one of them has degrees in Comp Eng, Mechanical and Electrical. So, I have been around when all of these people were building a garage. Needless to say, it was overbuilt, under budget and there was plenty of "discussion" amongst all of these engineers as to which was the best way to do something. I have a science background, but I am certainly not an engineer, so I just drove the nails and made the cuts where I was told. I guess I am the black sheep, but some of it did rub off on me. I get by and I really like to put thought into how something should go together for strength and other factors, I just don't do it for a living.
All these engineers at a Thanksgiving dinner table can be really interesting. Now if I could only get some of them involved in building my car.

That would be a fun table to be at!

[Wesley J]

Engineers have to make everything so complicated.

True, most do. I've learned a few things over the past couple of decades of being an Engineer and building cars/motorcycles:

1: Engineering is the science of "close enough"
2: A computer is used in the design phase to make fast, accurate mistakes
3: Simulation is like mast ur bation, the more you do it, the more you think its the real deal
4: Design something to be idiot proof and someone just makes a better idiot. Ya, I know, this is unrelated but I just like to say it....

The key here is to Engineer in tunability because your calculation of COG etc will be wrong.

Oh ya, and 1+1=2 but only for significantly large values of 1......

Wesley J

[Wesley J]

Growing up as the son of a PhD level EE, I can confirm this. My dad and I went rounds when he helped me with Calculus homework. I am the only "non-math" person in my family. Dad is EE, Aunt is a math teacher, her husband is EE. Brother was a Engineering major and my sister is a math teacher. My first cousins are Computer Engineer, PhD Mechanical Engineer and Civil Engineer. Their husbands are all engineers and one of them has degrees in Comp Eng, Mechanical and Electrical. So, I have been around when all of these people were building a garage. Needless to say, it was overbuilt, under budget and there was plenty of "discussion" amongst all of these engineers as to which was the best way to do something. I have a science background, but I am certainly not an engineer, so I just drove the nails and made the cuts where I was told. I guess I am the black sheep, but some of it did rub off on me. I get by and I really like to put thought into how something should go together for strength and other factors, I just don't do it for a living.
All these engineers at a Thanksgiving dinner table can be really interesting. Now if I could only get some of them involved in building my car.

I'm with you Stephen. I'm terrible with math, thats why the good lord invented computers... IMHO the key to math is a high level understanding, the details are worked out in a spreadsheet or FE model. Ask a lot of Engineers what order differential equation describes the action of a shock absorber and they'll look at you like you're nuts. That being said, if you can answer it correctly they may also think you're nuts...

Wesley J

[Bjkadron]

HAHA, good eye!

Yeah I have Hours and Hours, and hours, and hours of GDT. Datums stick out to my brain. What did you use it in reference to?

you have a 3.5" axle tube?

I cant think of anyone maybe some offroad guys?

I don't right now, but the Axle I want to use is the ford 8.8 and all of them have 3.5" axle tubes.

[Bryce]

Yeah I have Hours and Hours, and hours, and hours of GDT. Datums stick out to my brain. What did you use it in reference to?

Technically its not a datum. The garage floor is the datum this was used to know how much I lifted the rear end. I also took a measurement at the rocker panel on each side front and back.

I don't right now, but the Axle I want to use is the ford 8.8 and all of them have 3.5" axle tubes.

Are you sure? I will go measure my 95 mustang. Look into griggs racing. They have clamp on brackets for their mustang torque arm kit. I really think its a 3" axle tho.

[19,69camaro]

I watched whats eating gilbert grape last night and couldnt help but think how much that car looked like yours. Other than the fact that it was a 62 i think http://imcdb.org/images/060/944.jpg . The watts link looks super slick btw

[Bryce]

Thanks Aldin,

I hope my falcon will end up better looking than that one!