belly tanks- could this be used?

Flying Dutchman, good shot of the Kelly & Hall Belly Tank. I crew on that car and am building a Tank based on an F-16 tank. Wayno

 

that rodnrace set isnt really a bad deal especially considering they are made in my mom's hometown. What would you use to cut kevlar 1/2 inch thick? sawzall? cut off wheel? I just came acrossed the thing and wanted a little input- I might buy a couple and just stick with what us stupid southerners do best- building swamp vehicles-

BTW RICKY - what is so origional about a chopped and channeled pickup? I am not ragging on them or saying I have any better ideas but has it ever crossed your mind to try something diffrent? Nice truck but it is like going to a bike show and seeing a bunch of WCC wannabe's which are really a spawn of Arlen Ness' mid 90's bad ideas

 

Is a bomb really a belly tank? Kinda two different things really. I work for a co. that heat treats bomb casings and they are REAL heavy, and we do sections that are about 3' long. Gears, could two or three people even lift one of those?

 

the guy that has them says they are 140lbs each

 

Hey Elmo! Sounds cool, building an F-16 tank... A pylon type right! Not the centerline one...
I work with F-16's daily... Those tanks look pretty good to make a lakester project out of...

I met the Kellies a few times on the lake... Bob & Judy Sights introduced me to 'em... They live close to the Kellies... Bob & Judy took me to El Mirage and Bonneville a couple times... Some of the coolest people on earth!

 

If they are thick kevlar or some other type of high tech composite they (other than the cones on the ends) are probably one piece.


I think the SCTA would require an internal steel tubing frame and roll cage for crash protection, which while cutting down on the interior room, would probably mean you would have to cut the shell up to fit the frame and mounts into the thing.


Still with some ungoldly built up motorcycle engine (that would fit pretty easily in the thing) it would be fast. Putting a V8 other than a small one like a Ford V860 would be tough.

 

The obvious, to me anyway, is;

$200 is cheap for a male mold for a FIBERGLASS COPY of that bomb.
buy it, paint it shiny, wax the fuck out of it and lay up an epoxy-glass copy right on top of it. If you want a "turret" for the rollbar, add it on in http://chavant.com/ automotive stylist clay or whatever before laying up the body.
If you use epoxy and glass cloth you hould be able to lay it up smooth enough to finish smooth with just a skim coat of body filler.
That's what Id do with it, if I was so bent, anyway....

 

Why don't you get this and save $60.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Board=UBB3&Number=157714

 

then i gotta pay shipping- (yeah, I know cheap)

 

I think you would need Carbide tipped tools to cut Kevlar.Since the center section is basicly straight,you could use the Kevlar front and rear cones,and the center section could be Aluminum sheet rivited to a steel space frame.Go for it,and keep the tail fins.

 

Kevlar cuts with all the woodworking tools you own.

 

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Yep. High strength and low weight has NOTHING to do with ease of cutting. You'd be surprised how much you can do with just a hacksaw on Kevlar. The strands are strong, but the epoxy isn't.