Garage Tour and Prototype Showcase

car, you can only hear everyone else, but this one—no. I was surprised at how quiet it was when you turned it on. If you sent me a video of this thing, it would be audible, but you're right, it's not too loud, although I expected it to startle me a little. Yes. It's like it's really not like standing next to a Top Fuel car. I've done this before and you can feel your clothes vibrating. Here—no. This whole knot that I'm touching now. This is a movable lever. This entire assembly is driven by a rack and pinion mechanism and moves back and forth. And the reason for this is , why do such a big and complicated thing? Well, the answer is that I wanted to place the inner tie rods higher. Do you see where I am? See here? This is where I want the upper tie rods . Yes. Or inner tie rods , I should say, inner. This bolt here is where the outer tie rods would be . So the goal is for this element to be right here. This is internal, and this is external. I want it to be as parallel to the lower suspension arm as possible . And if he left here, he wouldn't be like this. This is your "bump steer" ( deviation from the course when the suspension is working), right? I would have a terrible "bump-sit". It would be so strong that I probably would n't be able to control the car, especially at high speeds. That would be scary. So what we have inside here under all these bolts is a linear guide. This is a round rail, and it is mounted on this mount. And then there I touch one here and there. These are bearings for a linear guide. And there is an intermediate plate that they are bolted to to maintain the correct distance. So this rod goes all the way down here. See this blue tube here? Yes. It's just a dust cover, it's just protection from dust. Oh, you see there are boots for the steering gear. And all it does is just move this assembly right here, which slides on those bearings. Oho. This is a pretty clever device . This is the device. But he is fast. Did that help a lot? Oh yes. This car is fast. We are in the top three in Class C Prepared nationally. Two years ago we took third place. Last year we were second. We hope we can become the first this year. We were first last year, but we hit a cone, which dropped us to second place. We actually had the fastest results , the "clean" time. We won last year, but we were fined. This happens, so what? So this is your main project right now? It was mine for three or four years, I bought it in 1919 and started working on it. This was the…