Projects 26/27 New build by an old guy..More progress!

Phil,
How many '27 "T" builds do you see with RC planes in the back ground? I sold my Royal P-26 Peashooter.

Pat

 

JW

 

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I just bought some steel last week. Hopefully I can start laying out my ch***is pretty soon.

I like what you're doing and I'll be following along
Bobby

 

I had to raise the motor mounts 1" so that I could slip the F1 steering box in and out from under the ch***is.Now I'm basck where I was..

 

Got a whole shop full of them...mostly 1/3 scale...been flying since I was about 8 yrs old. Strictly C/L until I switched to RC in the 70's but continued to compete in C/L aerobatics till a couple of year ago. Y'know it's not surprising....... most of us guys like anything that has a motor. -Phil

 

We sound the same. I also started when I was 8 with C/L, because my older brother was doing it. I Then went into R/C in the end of the 70's. I don't buy kits. I scratch build my planes. When I was younger, I didn't have the money to buy Kits. so I bought the cowls, wheel pants, canopies of the plane I wanted, and built it. I still today scratch build my planes. I have 23 of them right now, 5 which aren't flight ready yet. I fly small stuff in my back yard, flying field is 20 miles away.

My smallest is a 15" biplane, and my largest right now is my 1/4 DR-I & 1/4 Monocoupe 90A. I had my DR-I for 20 years, I sold it to a guy 2 yrs ago. He flew it twice, and crashed it. He gave me the pieces back, and I rebuilt it again, yet to be recovered, and minor things finished.

We had to sell my wife's '27 Tudor, for medical reasons. I am now building my '27 coupe.

Pat

 

Ha! Built C/L planes since '53, many scratch built Biplanes...then I got Gee Bee fever.
C/L Gee Bees in many scales, only 2 were R/C. (Vern Clements plans on 1 C/l, 54" WS)

My '27 Ts are a roadster, a 'coupester', and a steel '27 Touring. Hemis and flatheads...

 

More construction.....I tried to use a F1 center mount fan but I couldn't lower it enough to get it centered on the radiator, which is much lower than stock location. So I had to go with an elctric fan with shroud...ugh...now I gotta weld in a temperature sensor. With the new radiator setup, I was able to weld the front crossmember in place. Wheelbase now works out to be 114". Pardon the tie rod.

 

The tie rod is fine, its the lack of Ackerman that's getting me, hope you can sort it. Looking good. JW

 

If I can get the axle close enough to the crossmember I might be able to put the tie rod behind..

 

I cut and reversed the radius rod ends(again) so that the spring perches can be mounted higer and wider. Now I think I can get the tie rod under the spring without bending the arms and avoid the suicide steering.

 

Here's my front end;

 

I made a suggestion in Post#22 on page one, I think its good. JW

 

I avoided having to use suicide steering by locating the spring perches under the raddius rods. Now all I have to do is bend the steering arms down about an inch for clearance. The weld looks a little funky, I had to do a lot of layers to get the strength needed for a tension weld, I'll pretty it up later. Now I can start attacking the rear suspension.

 

Got my tadiator shell today....I'll have to do some cutting and vertical extending and adjusting to get it to look good on this application...

 

Radiator mount...

 

How high is that off the ground? JW

 

8 1/2 inches...

 

Looked very low due to the spring but that's plenty. JW

 

[/ATTACH] Bent the steering arms down 1" and modified a chevy pittman arm. Waiting for a steering arm and drag link....

 

Got my steering rigged up....need to straighten up the steering shaft..it's bent.. the steering wheel end of it has a lot of runout....must have been in a wreck......I think I can do it otherwise I'll have to find a replacement part.

 

Shaping up well. JW

 

I shortened the pitman arm and relocated the drag link to the inside of the radius rod.

 

Got my rear radius rod set up yesterday. Not conventional but it worked ok on a race car I had with much more hp that a flattie. I think I am going with coil springs and shocks with Watts link.

 

Replacing the body subframe pieces that I had to cut out....

 

My rear suspension...a modified basic coil kit from speedway...may have to adjust the spring rates later on...

 

Love the T's Nice work you are doing

 

Yay...got her sprung up on all fours.. shud go down another 2 inches fully loaded giving me 4 1/2 - 5 inches travel.

 

Borrowed some 15" rims today, went to the Tire Barn and got some throw away tires mounted so I could at least roll my T around to work on it. Tires arn't right but it looks pretty bad*** to me.

 

Its got the mid 70's New Zealand look with those tires and front axle. Looking real nice. JW