Das Beast: My E30 track / street build

[Digitalwave]

Is Das Beast no more? Only made it on track one time?

[dvallis]

Thanks man. Yes, definitely updates. The adventure continues on a my new thread: 450V. I'm building an aluminum body roadster on a C5 chassis. Inspired by 1957 Maserati 450S.

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/forum/general-forums/members-rides/the-project-forum/10099915-450v#post10099915

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Nice shop, congratulations. Any updates?

[obscene]

I registered for r3v just to say how much I love this build. Hopefully the move went well, and you're enjoying some early season testing.

[dvallis]

We're just finishing moving into the new shop. Beast is done and ready for an Aero test day. Harris Hill is too short so we're looking for a better track. COTA is $$$$ but we may end up doing that. I miss Texas World Speedway. It was the perfect track.

Wrenching side, minus the lift


Fab side. Work in progress

[Digitalwave]

What's up with the beast? Back on the race track yet?

[dvallis]

Splitter is done. Here are my artsy "tech blog" reveal photos









And the final product









I gotta say, of all the projects we've done for the Beast this was one of my favorites to build and see finished.

Now ... let's take it to the track.

[dvallis]

Re-sanded. Let's just call this the base coat. I need to wait 24h more for all the VOCs to outgas, THEN I can repaint it. At 5AM. I feel like I'm fabricating a bloody surf board.

[dvallis]

Guess they're not kidding about temperature. Only time it's below 90F in Austin is 5-6AM. Ugh

[dvallis]

Well damn. It's 105F in Austin. So hot apparently that the paint flash dried in the air before it hit the splitter and fell off. I'll have to re-sand tonight and paint tomorrow at Zero Dark Thirty. Or convince Rob. He's a morning creature, up at 4AM.

[Northern]

Most resins/adhesives will kick off in larger volumes. Split it between a few cups and you'll avoid any issue.
At my old job, we wouldn't mix cups larger than 100g (not including hardener) because they tended to cook off. Sometimes you'd end up with a dozen cups for larger layups.

[hasa]

Also polystyrene resin emits lot of heat if overdosing with oxidiser.

[dvallis]

About 10 lbs. Will weigh when I re-assemble

[moatilliatta]

Do you know what it weighs yet all back together?

[dvallis]

Epoxy cured hard really hard and smooth as glass



After sanding and two coats of flat black paint



Aluminum bits are in for flat black powder coat. Two week wait.