Wow, I'm speechless...
turbocad's custom fx
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yeah man, I've been dieing for a mill and a lathe for the longest time but no way I could fit a huge bridgeport and I really didn't want some crappy tiny mill, this one is just right size wise for me in that it at least fits in my garage 
it's considered 2/3 the size of a full sized bridgeport... now I'm working on hooking up VFD's to these so I have digital speed control at least.
I don't have any good pictures from the nova project yet, heres a few, I'll get better ones when it's done. basically the car is a full blown race car that the guy likes to drive around on the street... it's an 8 second car but when we repainted the car a few years ago we went back to a full steel nose as he wants the stockish look, but at the time the truck lid was left fiberglass and was obviously held on by dezus connectors...
well since he drives it on the street a lot and the car has a small fuel cell, he winds up having to put gas in the damn thing like every hour or 2... a car like this is not measured in mpg it's more like gpm :top: this used to mean either taking the trunk lid off each time, then eventually we built a little trap door so he could fill it woithout taking the trunk lid off, but it looked a bit crappy...
anyway, he now decided that he wants me to redo the fiberglass truck lid but to have it on custom trunk hinges instead of dezus connectors for a more factory body look and the convienience of just opening the trunk instead of removing it each time... car has huge tubs so conventional trunk hinges would never work. I'm building an internal aluminum skin for the trunk and aluminum trunk hinges and mounts... heres a few shots for now...
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it's considered 2/3 the size of a full sized bridgeport... now I'm working on hooking up VFD's to these so I have digital speed control at least.I don't have any good pictures from the nova project yet, heres a few, I'll get better ones when it's done. basically the car is a full blown race car that the guy likes to drive around on the street... it's an 8 second car but when we repainted the car a few years ago we went back to a full steel nose as he wants the stockish look, but at the time the truck lid was left fiberglass and was obviously held on by dezus connectors...
well since he drives it on the street a lot and the car has a small fuel cell, he winds up having to put gas in the damn thing like every hour or 2... a car like this is not measured in mpg it's more like gpm :top: this used to mean either taking the trunk lid off each time, then eventually we built a little trap door so he could fill it woithout taking the trunk lid off, but it looked a bit crappy...
anyway, he now decided that he wants me to redo the fiberglass truck lid but to have it on custom trunk hinges instead of dezus connectors for a more factory body look and the convienience of just opening the trunk instead of removing it each time... car has huge tubs so conventional trunk hinges would never work. I'm building an internal aluminum skin for the trunk and aluminum trunk hinges and mounts... heres a few shots for now...
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Wow, huge amount of work on that nova! Great job
I've got a lot of aluminum work in mind for my fx, I want to redo the whole radiator support over in aluminum with custom intercooler mounts, and I've got to build my own intercoolers and aluminum piping and stuff so I really wanted the aluminum practice... got a few other things in mind too :D
Nice... keep us updated.
man, I've just been so crazy at work lately and this thing has just been on the back burner so long that I almost forgot about it at this point :bulgy-eyes:
it will be coming back into my shop real soon though and once it does come back in it won't leave till it's done. really expecting to get this thing running by this spring...
it will be coming back into my shop real soon though and once it does come back in it won't leave till it's done. really expecting to get this thing running by this spring...
