Black Knight Racing builting there second Car

here are some picuture of our second car under construction the 235 Blue Flame


This the way we got it off Paddy


We changed a few things extended the back hoop so i would fit in,added the front hoop,changed the cal and dash area,tail shaft loop, put a solid fire wall in
and moved the motor foward with the help off QQmoon and Nick

Welding off the cage



Nick welding

 

Bloody good show Mates!!

You are keeping the standards high for the rest of us. Fine looking car.

 

Love the pictures and I believe the rear suspension would help in the classification process. Love the Mcgurk manifold a real antique. Are those 94 crbs you're running? And lastly what car did your raditator come out of? I'm sure it wouldn't be available here but it is perfect in size. I have been looking all over for a used raditator for my car and all to no avail. New is cost prohibitive. Keep up the good work.Roy

 

good lookin car here in the works gents... seriously good mates

 

An Opel Kadett has neat little radiator. If they haven't all been crushed by now.

 

Keep the photos coming, Lookin' good!

 

Hi 348, I found my radiator in an early dodge mini van, maybe 84, they have a radiator on one side and the condenser on the other side, so it's not real wide, and it has an electric fan with it, the motor was a 3 liter V6, so it cools my 3.7 liter slant 6 just fine, it even seems to cool better with the electric water pump drive, good luck on your search. Joe

 

The car looks great I like the firewall position, with it between the box and bellhousing do you still need scatter shield over the clutch ?

 

Yes.

Keep at it boys, chasing your brake's now.

Cheers,

Drewfus

 

you need a 360 degree scatter shield, protects you, the crowd and other cars that you are racing and your own back tires.

 

Hey Roy, we are looking at keepin the manifold for the next motor, the crbs are 98 strombergs.we hav a set of triple su and hav had a manifold made to suit the 235.... the radiator is out of a early holden FJ which are had to come across over here. i was lucky that it came with it when we brought it cheers Steve

 

Hey Drewfus , dont worry about chasing them we still hav the body pannels to do and a few things to the steering weld of a few things and then off to the sand blasters so ya lookin about 4 to 6 weeks till we are going to need them.... the car looked great on sunday it was sad that the rain stuffed the day up cheers Steve

 

More photo's of the build we have now finished the steering and have began the panels

 

Hey Black Knights,
Good to se some pic's of the second rocket. Hope to see it soon. Big thanks to you guys for being so freindly to a couple of "Newbies" on the weekend and congrats on the 13.9.

Cheers, Shannon aka Living Hamb

 

yeah thanks guy's it was great to meet you and mad weekend off racing to bad we broke the motor but that is racing.... if you need anymore help you can get us here and qqmoon,drewfus and they will help you out as well...... cheers steve

 

What did u break in the motttter....


Hiney....

 

we broke .
the front 1/2 of the cam into 6 piece
cylinder number 5 conrod and miss all but the top of the piston in that cylinder
put a crack in cylinder 6 piston
and a big hole in the block in between cylinders 5 and 6
and put a hole in the valley at one of the lifters
unsure what else is broken as still pulling it down
and still unsure what let go

 

here are some pics where the rods came through the sump and a vid off whats left inside the sump when we took it off.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5oviO-vuo0

 

Man, if you can do that well as a FNG I'm scared to think of what will happen when you reach Grenade Inspector status.

Sorry to see of your problems, when these old engines come apart they do tend to make sure that we can't put them back together again.

 

Reminds me of about 40 years ago at Lions a fuel bike was coming up to the starting line and he run the revs up and the engine came apart. The carb was hanging from the throttle cable and the cylinders were gone. The guy looked down and gave the throttle a couple of twists I guess to see if what he was looking at was really true. Roy

 

Sorry we didn't get to say goodbye last sunday but we had to get home and packed to make it over to the hamb drags.they we even better than i could have hoped for.hope you get that motor fixed soon so we can race again.

 

OBFB, glad I got a chance to talk with you at the drags. Bet you had a memorable trip. Keep up the good work on your side of the planet.

 

What's going on on your side of the planet Aussies? Haven't heard much about your 2009 season.

 

hey all. below is a link to the motor running in the second car just before we striped it down for paint .
its a 235 chev blue flame with a little bit of work done to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAq1JOK1tKQ&NR=1

 

That thing sounds great.......lives up to the "blue flame" name too, if ya watch the pipes.

 

Hey guys, well its been awhile but it is finally coming together, i have just about gottin everything painted and we have 2 weekends to get it all together before we go to Gunnadah and i need to get a tech inspection done as well

 

That looks great steve ya done real good

QQ

 

Outstanding.

Great attention to detail.

Looks like a very organized operation.

 

hey guys,
so we started to put it together on friday nite and today and is going together real well, its starting to look like a hambster

 

You've got a fine racin' machine there. I like the black & white color combination. Keep us posted on performance, eh?