Zuffenhaus 935 K3 Build for Fünf Gruppen

[Reaper930]

But this is one of my favorite views, so industrial, so hard and unforgiving, so purposeful and so very, very intimidating:

[slow&rusty]

Absolutely absolutely incredible Gabe!! Kudos brother!

[Dutchie]

Awesome project once again Gabe !!! That Matte on the rear part of the car looks very cool are you doing the whole car like that ?

[Reaper930]

One should note, stock doors with Flag delete using Vitalonis instead, speaker delete and RSA door panels installed weight 66 lbs each.

The carbon/fiber glass doors weigh 10 lbs each.

[eimkeith]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

I would suggest it would be safer with two full length aluminium angles that are bonded and rivetted to the wing and fitted to both sides of the vertical plate (4 full length angles).

If what I can see in your photo is the wing just mocked up in position then carry on as you were if not I would serious reconsider how it's mounted.

Ahab, that's exactly what you are seeing - temporary (but sturdy) attachment to get us through a photo shoot that evening (less than 4 hours after Gabriel flew out!)

Although the attachment shown would most likely be sufficient (downward pressure), the wing is getting a full depth flange contoured to the underside, bonded and riveted for the permanent set up.

Good eye, though - it's hard to digest individual details with so many interesting photos flying about.

[Netspeed]

Beautiful...

[1100sport]

Absolutely insane! It really is a "like no other" project where the sky does not seem to be a limit. Fantastic!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by eimkeith

Good eye, though - it's hard to digest individual details with so many interesting photos flying about.

Thanks Keith, what can I say I'm a details sort of person.

Hope you like this wing, it's one I designed way back when I was a youth.



We did a static load test with 22 bags of sand to prove it was safe to run. When you see a stack of 55lb bags 3 across and over 7 high it tends to leave an impression on you of what loads these things have to take to be safe.

I emailed this thread to a few friends at work today and it got the big thumbs up as what you guys are building for Gabe is fantastic.

[eimkeith]

Thanks -we appreciate that.

Gabe - we appreciate the love from you as well - to be honest, we appreciate being able to build this stuff for you guys - there are a lot of other things we could be doing for a living that aren't nearly as satisfying.

Here is a teaser of what the rush was about last Sunday:

[johndglynn]

Originally Posted by eimkeith

You could have cleaned the tires, dude!

[eimkeith]

we're not polishers, John...

[juicersr]

Originally Posted by eimkeith

we're not polishers, John...

fcuking classic.

Pretty cool how this stuff gets done.

[Mark020]

You make me sick. How am I supposed to sleep tonight. I'm deeply in love. Sir Reaper: they should give you a medal for building such a bad .ss piece of machinery.

[Oh Haha]

Like Chuck Norris, those tires are so bada$$ dirt is afraid to to stick to them.


Seriously, I would love to bring that car up to a cruise night here just to scare the poop out of the muscle car guys.

[VZ935]

Gabe,
Just an idea but you may want to consider doing something very simple that will provide additional support to your turbo's and exhaust. Lot of weight in those snails.If you look at post 83 someone put a picture of my yellow 935 ... you can easily develop a bracket that goes from the turbo to your rear chassis/engine mount to provide some extra support and insurance from all that weight beings supported by the exhaust/heads.

Just a thought.... fantastic job everyone is doing on the car.

[Reaper930]

Van, I actually didn't grab pics of it, but we have supports for the wastegate and turbos that attach to the 935 engine mount, but both sides weren't completed before the photo shoot sadly.

Good eye and yes those snails are heavy last thing we want is the headers to sag once they heat up on the dyno. Aaron is doing those and i'm sure I can ask him to post pics of his wonderful art when he's done

And thank you for the kind words - coming from you, its the highest honor.

[Reaper930]

Originally Posted by Mark020

You make me sick. How am I supposed to sleep tonight. I'm deeply in love. Sir Reaper: they should give you a medal for building such a bad .ss piece of machinery.

Thanks brother - the medal should go to the Kremer brothers who designed it - and to the pit crews, drivers and teams that pushed these things into the anals of history.

[Reaper930]

One little thing that I didn't mention earlier is Aaron and Keith are hard after the max from this motor via efficient usage of fuel etc. So they recommended to go with CDI boxes from Australia for sequential spark to fire at 2 optimal times during the cycle.

Tell me these aren't sexy

[davidrivers]

Originally Posted by Reaper930

Thanks brother - the medal should go to the Kremer brothers who designed it - and to the pit crews, drivers and teams that pushed these things into the anals of history.

Whoops.. I think you meant the annals of history. The anals of history are probably not a very nice place to be :-)

Seriously though.. sick project, and very impressive attention to the details.

[RarlyL8]

Whoops.. I think you meant the annals of history. The anals of history are probably not a very nice place to be :-)

Now THAT was funny! "Pushed these things into the anals of history" dammit that's funny. Kind of like what Obama is doing?