Twin Engine Eclipse - Two Engine Car / Spinalsign5357 . Now three engines ... Triple Engine Eclipse

[Spinalsign5357]

A layup to what?

Are you seriously comparing the welding of random pieces of scaffold and then a coating of grease on it to the amount of engineering that goes into a Lamborghini? 90s/2000s throttle bodied vehicles? What a peculiar reference.

You offer no context of this thing except low resolution pictures and no facts about how safe it actually is because the design and implementation is thoughtful. All of those welds and much of the reinforcement look suspect and I don't see how you'd possibly be able to insure this for the road or any track, so it must be for show only.

That's a perfectly fine goal if that's what it is.

Don't know, all we see is metal stuck together and covered in foam and grease with tennis balls attached.

You're posting pictures to a site to show off work which is very unorthodox (who doesn't love crazy builds?) but when when asked if you are actually thinking it out and performing the necessary engineering tasks to ensure that tubes of metal suddenly don't become launched projectiles, you get defensive. Think about that for a second.

At one point early on in one of the pictures/videos you had a fuel cell attached using ratchet straps. How could you not expect questions about competency after that?

There's no show , I post updates to what I'm up to . Twist all you want , a Youtube search will show plenty of exo cars with less reinforcement than what I have at the track . Clearly this isn't a flex on right , quality , big budget , etc . " ... engineering tasks to ... " There's no ensure . Walk a tow yard that does police calls and witness " ensurement " . I see what you see ...

 

[curt-s]

There's no show? All you're doing here is show. That's not a bad thing necessarily but additional explanation and some more meat would be great. It's unique, why not?
If there's a language barrier, that's understandable.

Twist?

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Tracks have tech inspections. At least, the legit ones do. But throwing more metal tubes at it with no thought to the engineering and especially no FEM analysis (look it up) performed is not actually reinforcement. Once you get into multi-axle vehicles and multi-engine, each with different HP/TQ potentials and powerbands, design becomes even more important. Are they all open differentials? What's the capacity of fuel tank? How is it going to be protected from collision? Are you running multiple tanks? Multiple fuel pumps or a set of inlines? There's no information here so, yes, all you're doing is "show" even with the low res photos in zoom/crop.

If you want to weld stuff together to create something, go for it. It's a way to learn, provided you do learn and don't just keep repeating the same mistakes. The same can be said with golf.. mumblemumblemumble.
You don't need big budget. Hell, even FreeCAD does FEM, and it's free. It'll take a bit to learn but so does welding.

Not that I intend to go back to Florida but I don't want to read a post from @CrackedDSM that he responded to a call involving two tons of metal tubing impaling a group of nuns walking down the street (GTA2 reference, anyone?)

 

[CrackedDSM]

There's no show? All you're doing here is show. That's not a bad thing necessarily but additional explanation and some more meat would be great. It's unique, why not?
If there's a language barrier, that's understandable.

Twist?

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Tracks have tech inspections. At least, the legit ones do. But throwing more metal tubes at it with no thought to the engineering and especially no FEM analysis (look it up) performed is not actually reinforcement. Once you get into multi-axle vehicles and multi-engine, each with different HP/TQ potentials and powerbands, design becomes even more important. Are they all open differentials? What's the capacity of fuel tank? How is it going to be protected from collision? Are you running multiple tanks? Multiple fuel pumps or a set of inlines? There's no information here so, yes, all you're doing is "show" even with the low res photos in zoom/crop.

If you want to weld stuff together to create something, go for it. It's a way to learn, provided you do learn and don't just keep repeating the same mistakes. The same can be said with golf.. mumblemumblemumble.
You don't need big budget. Hell, even FreeCAD does FEM, and it's free. It'll take a bit to learn but so does welding.

Not that I intend to go back to Florida but I don't want to read a post from @CrackedDSM that he responded to a call involving two tons of metal tubing impaling a group of nuns walking down the street (GTA2 reference, anyone?)

He lives in s**thole Florida....I mean to say, "basically new york but hot 24/7" Florida. I'm in real Florida, so there's no worries about that.


This all reminds me of the dude who tried to big block ford swap his 1G, and without bracing anything cut the firewall completely out of the car and just threw the engine in.

 

[Spinalsign5357]

I'm not lifting ya'll . Go hunt yourself , I have nothing to look to .

 

[Mahreeoh17]

Just curious, is this AWD or RWD or FWD? Is there one long driveshaft or a few connected in sync? Trying to work this out in my head.

 

[BLACK'98DSM]

Oh, so I jinxed the build?

I've never even breathed near this thing, and thankfully so.

Go ahead and show us what it's made of. Not literally, but metaphorically. We know it's boogered up steel tubing but take it out when it's ready and show us how it runs.

Everyone's build is different. And that respectable. But I didn't jinx shit and that shouldn't be your excuse when it doesn't run like a properly built 2GNT.

 

[Spinalsign5357]

No hype ... Baseline acceleration before going triple engine with two v6's , stock internals :

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Prior fastest acceleration with two different engines , stock internals , 420a in front , and v6 in rear :

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[pat white]

Just keep on building it !! ...and if you get criticized ..just reply "and that bothers you ?"

 

[BLACK'98DSM]

Can't tell if you spun it on a dyno or just jackstands.

(I said this in the comments 3 years ago and you deleted the comments of those who agreed with me)

 

[Spinalsign5357]

Can't tell if you spun it on a dyno or just jackstands.

(I said this in the comments 3 years ago and you deleted the comments of those who agreed with me)

The mods removed the comments . I posted a screen shot of the ones I saved prior . I had 25 of 26 . It's posted here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNOxCkCK33puh2VpKc0fxGw/community?lb=UgzsX14_4nr3LCz2Fc14AaABCQ

Twin v6 Drive video here :

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[BLACK'98DSM]

I meant YouTube comments. Not here on the forums. There's a reason mods are digging through your stuff though.

 

[DreamChaser7]

On this forum, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.


Ok, I figured it was to provide buoyancy or something to counter the half ton of extra weight from the tubing.
So, was any engineering done on this or are you just winging it? Serious question.

I’ve tried explaining the same thing to him before. I give up. (The first part)

 

[HaveBlue83]

Incredible

 

[CrackedDSM]

On this forum, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.


Ok, I figured it was to provide buoyancy or something to counter the half ton of extra weight from the tubing.
So, was any engineering done on this or are you just winging it? Serious question.

This f**king SENT me.

 

[BLACK'98DSM]

Everyone hush.

We're a few iron chunks away from the new Killdozer.

Most interesting news articles start with "Florida Man". This might be no exception.

 

[CrackedDSM]

Marvin Heymeier did nothing wrong. Bring on another Killdozer.

I'm about two bad shifts away from selling everything and buying a welder and a dozer myself.


(Just making this post to give the NSA agent watching me a stroke)



Edit - G*d d*mn it, I missed a golden opportunity to make a "he's a bad fabricator so his killdozer would just immediately fall apart" style joke. You set me up perfect for it too.

 

[Mahreeoh17]

No hype ... Baseline acceleration before going triple engine with two v6's , stock internals :

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Prior fastest acceleration with two different engines , stock internals , 420a in front , and v6 in rear :

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Why is it two different sets of gauges?

 

[Spinalsign5357]

Triple Engine Eclipse build part 23 ...

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[Spinalsign5357]

Triple Engine Eclipse build part 24 ...

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[Spinalsign5357]

Triple Engine Eclipse build part 25 ...

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[Spinalsign5357]

Triple Engine Eclipse build part 26 ...

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[DreamChaser7]

Triple Engine Eclipse build part 25 ...

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Gotta ask, what is the wadded up tarp for in the back?

 

[Spinalsign5357]

Gotta ask, what is the wadded up tarp for in the back?

Wire harness

 

[pat white]

wow!! ..i know you don't get the odd look from time to time lo !

 

[Spinalsign5357]

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