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On second watch, I'm remembering how much of this is 75-100+mph with all the wet and corners. It seems less violent with the camera soaking up the track's rather aggressive changes in camber/condition/altitude like nothing.
@@Daishokurou like I was oversteering and the rear end was stepping out, which it occasionally was. It's super planted though, and doesn't understeer into stuff like a FWD car.
I really enjoy a nice slow lap to take it in, line up corners and just enjoy it. Not often you can do it will traffic, so rain is useful for that. Unless biblical rain
Yeah, it's just annoying when its looking away from the corner while it's trying to be cleaver. I should check if you can turn off everything bar the roll stabilisation.
At the end, where you sit there with the coffee mug, that corner of the car will be OK with the IVA? That corner is not to pointy? Also, those panel will stay in there just by friction? I'm having a hard time figuring out how to cover the shifter area. I'm only an old school card board designer.
Yeah, I can’t remember the specific numbers but the IVA dictates minimum radii for those bits, and they’re surprisingly small so we’re well above them. It’s more rounded than it looks on camera :)
Can you put the unused printed parts back into the system and reuse the material to print more or are they now just scrap? The interior is starting to look really smart now.
There are machines which recycle the plastic and turn it into filament but they’re quite expensive and at our scale, the economics don’t work out. I think PLA is plant-derived and degrades quite well though so the ecological impact is limited.
I'm watching this content at 0.75 speed to enjoy every second of my life. I think you should too, so maybe slow the f*ck down when you're explaining something. You explain good. Just try to act like you give an actual f*ck of people listening.
I'm really looking forward to the day you get it running. Dealing with the constant problems which crop up and cascade into something more to fix would have my head battered. It is a joy watching this project moving along and I wish you well.
I have a '65 Thunderbird that I have been working on for over a year.... I have replaced my fuel tank, it was not that bad really but needed professional cleaning and sealing. The price quoted me was $430 a new take was only $20 more so I installed the new tank with a new sending unit. Since then I have replaced all the seals in rebuilding the steering gear box. then I had the power break booster rebuilt, then installed a new master cylinder... now I'm broke. Well I also found two fried wires in the wiring harness and I have peeled all the tape covering the wiring harness. So much fun. I used to have a '64 Thunderbird that I drove in the UK when I was stationed there at RAF Upper Heyford. I sold it back in '92 I hope it is still running around England some where.
I Came to make a sensible comment but mostly I can't get over the 30L tank, and I'm sat here like "Okay so that'll do you for one lap around the ring..." :D
That's such a weird way to mount the filler neck! Also aluminum tank and steel fittings is a recipe for galvanic corrosion, which explains the state of the bolt heads.
Ooohhh iron fillings on everything, try Autogylm Maguna or similar on stuff including the cars parked nearby - it's like magic eating all those crusted on rust on paintwork ect Great update chaps 👍
awesome videos of this 66 Thunderbird! Would you be willing to make a video of your preparations for startup and the first start and drive? have a great day! 🌅🌄👍😀
How can you say that the latest model didn't have abs? Where did you got this information. This car is having 1800kilos For your information you can't stop this car without abs.
This one doesn't have ABS. I know because the ABS pump is in the shed, in a bag instead of under the bonnet. The GTO MR did not have ABS, nor does it have the active aero, active suspension or 4WS system. This is all pretty well documented, and all of those items removed roughly 40 kilos from the 1800kg mass of the car. Not a huge difference.
@PedalBox my friend, warm advice put back abs so you will not turt yourself. And abs is under the right front fender where the bumper meets fender. Once, when this car starts to lose traction and the grip abs makes miracles there. Trust my words i have been there.
@PedalBox i know wery well, when wheel stop spinning abs unblock and blocks back that wheel, that happens multiple times throug the moment of need. But this discussion doesn't have sense. I wanted to inform you that this car without abs is dangerous,l. It is up to you how you are going to accept that info
I'd hardly call it dangerous. If it were, the actual GTO MR would never have been made without ABS. But it was. Is it something a driver should be aware of, given this car DID have it before? Sure, Absolutely.
Longtime vr4 owner. Get a metric set of racheting flat end wrenches and lot of extensions and youll be fine. There are only 2 types of owners of these cars. Neglectful ones and mad scientist types. Such as Z32TT fellas can probably agree with the fact that if you like the car you know what youre signing up.
Wow!! Smart 3kgt vr4 twin turbo AWD AWS mountain curves High tech advance sports car like the GTR. Definitely is not for dummies. The poor humble Man smart ferrari's.
We now have some form of cabling, exciting times ahead! The alternative way on requiring less throw would be shorting the lever shifter side but then added risk of 135 or 2 4 closer together and greater chance of wrong gear downshift 😮 is doable. Leaving that until the engine is running is probably best
