The injection is done on the Chevrolet! Much tuning to do but it runs! Right now it has an alarmingly bad fuel consumption rate at around 8 mpg but tuning should at least double that!

The car drives alright for a car 1.5 inches off the ground i guess, but the a-arm slaps the frame over nearly every pothole. When I get access to a plasma(or a lot of time with a grinder), I will notch the frame above the lower a-arm. I am also considering air suspension at some point.

The SIMCA frame has finally made contact with earth! A new front suspension and a lot of notching and clearance work still has to be done, but I am psyched!

Here, my roommate is scraping off the interior sound deadener. We really want to make this car as light as possible(I have heard of a race-trim SIMCA weighing as little as 1000 lbs), but also styled distinctly French. We want to keep the burgundy tweed interior, but with lighter weight material.

Also, I received a shipment of 5 yards of twill weave carbon kevlar! This is for thew hood of the wagon. I have virtually no experience with fiber laying, so I will have to practice quite a bit before I jump in.

Hopefully more soon!

Here is the SIMCA. four speed, rear engine, slant push rod water cooled 1118cc 4 cylinder

First is the Chevrolet. right now it has a .60 over 283 cu in small block and a 3 speed manual. I have built a megasquirt computer, a custom mild steel intake, and a single turbo setup (liberated from a 7.3l ford powerstroke). more on this later

welcome!

I have started this blog in the interest of documenting some of the ideas, inspirations, and creations that I have. Primarily I want this blog to explore all kinds of concepts for enhancing and hopping up the cars that I have, and to learn how to use scientific method to prove a concept.

The vehicles that I will use as platforms for experimentation are a 1957 chevrolet 210 townsman wagon, 1969 SIMCA 1118 and a home-built 50cc drag-style bike. These are all radically different from a layout point of view, but are similar in the fact that they all have 4 stroke gasoline engines and manual transmissions