Man Do Car: A Casual Engineering Podcast
I couldn’t bring myself to write a full article on how the car is getting on, so I decided to do something a little different: a podcast! Enjoy. All the relevant pictures are below as well as dingy chat!
We discuss painting, IVA preparation, driving at Snetterton, engineering learning, SpaceX hydraulic systems, faulty brake callipers, peak performance, why limited slip differentials rock, the Hoonigan donk, exhaust wrap, and lastly, engineering in a pandemic.
Dingy Chat
The Locost
I have five unfinished articles sat in my inbox. Half technical, half updates. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to finish any of them. Free time to write is hard to come by these days, and I am very picky about what I choose to publish. However, it has been far too long without an update, and I owe you all some words and pictures. So here goes.
This time last year I was gearing up for a trip to the dyno. I was going to get the car tuned and then head over to Castle Combe for a cold/wet trackday to round the year off.… Read More
Nothing quite gets the internet clickidy-clicks like a 3D printing article! In the following post I use 3D printing to fix something that wasn’t really broken.
I have never been happy with the original mountings for the inlet trumpets on the Locost. Its quite common to use silicone hose to align everything within a retro-fit throttle body system and sadly mine was no different. This design can lead to miss-alignment between the trumpets and the throttles, potential shrouding of the inlet path and variations in inlet length; cylinder to cylinder.
This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night and it needed to be improved.… Read More
I have been considering building a dry sump for a long time, in fact, ever since I started building the the car. However they are a fairly complicated piece of kit, and I have therefore shied away from them until now. Fortunately I changed my mind due to the data I collected at Snetterton and having access to a decent Turret Mill at my new job. Lets get into this.
Up until now I have run a Wet Sump on the Locost. In a Wet Sump system oil passes down into the oil pan under gravity and is fed back into the oil pump via a static pickup.… Read More
It been a while since I last posted on OgilvieRacing. Life has been pretty hectic for the family since the end of February, and sadly there has not been a whole lot of time for toy cars. In fact the rest of this year is likely to be a quiet one, as I will be changing jobs and location.
I would like to do a track day at Castle Combe before the end of the year, and I will be sure to fill you in on that and the reliability upgrades I have planned for the Locost. However, I promised a run down of the build up to Snetterton, and that’s what your going to get.… Read More
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