The FORD Lounge

[ArdWrknTrk]

"turn something off"
That they were never trained on, and were never informed was actually active on their flight deck.

The bean counters who thought "we can save $300 on a pitot tube" should be on the gallows

[Gary Lewis]

Pitot tube and/or temp sensor.  There are lots of ways to make it failsafe.  But to rely on memory .... wait, what are we talking about?  

[85lebaront2]

Probably the pitot tube Airbus incident where insects got into the tubes so they were plugged and the pilot never looked up and saw they were plugged during the walk around.

[ArdWrknTrk]

No, not really.
Was the 737 Max-8.that had the AOA anti-stall software in fly-by-wire override executive control from the front seat.

The mud daubers on the Airbus are the reason we have "Remove Before Flight" pins in the pitots that should be ,manually removed by the flight crew on their walk-around immediately before taxiing away from the gate.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Ooopsie!  

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/four-bolts-were-missing-from-boeing-737-before-door-plug-blew-off-ntsb-says/

People should go to prison for this to EVER being allowed to roll out the plant.

[Gary Lewis]

Yep. That’s a major failure.  Don’t understand how an industry that prides itself on its safety record could allow that to happen.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Capital Investment groups and beancounters before industry SOP, that's how!

[ArdWrknTrk]

This is the place for random off topic things....
Here's another video that Bill would appreciate.
This guy makes AMAZING reproduction intakes and has some of the rarest performance carburetor setups I've ever seen.

https://youtu.be/ohwKW8MEVk4?si=i3I-euJQ2wLSkd9m

[Gary Lewis]

That is AMAZING!  Thanks for sharing.

I had no idea that it was so complex to re-create something link an intake manifold.  I guess once you work out the CAD and get the kinks out the next one would go more smoothly/quickly, but he sure has a lot of time in that intake.

But I'm surprised that he is casting the Ford logo and ID #'s in the parts.  I would think the logo would get him in trouble with Ford, and the ID #'s aren't "correct" as it isn't the same as whatever the part was that he's copied.  Still, the vast majority of people would never know that it isn't the original part.

[ArdWrknTrk]

These are bespoke, for concours cars owned by VERY wealthy people.
He's not trying to hide the fact that he makes them.
I don't think he has anything to worry about... 🤷‍♂️

I've tagged Bill before (I think for a downdraft Pantera intake and one for a GT40) but he must not read the mail, or he has notifications turned off globally.

Some of these old Ford carb setups are pretty cool!  

[Gary Lewis]

I can't imagine what the price is.  But those parts are really impressive.  

[ArdWrknTrk]

I think it's one of those "If you have to ask, this isn't for you" type of deals...

I'm still impressed that some random guy pours these in his driveway!  🤪

[Gary Lewis]

Yes!  That someone working out of his garage in Iowa has the capability to do that.  It takes a LOT of CAD work.  And serious knowledge of casting.  And then a CNC machine.

But look at all of the things he apparently made, like the tool that grabs the crucible and through a winch allows him to lift and position it.  The device on the CNC machine to rotate the part precise degrees.  Etc.  That guy is creative and good!

[ArdWrknTrk]

Once I discovered him I watched his whole back catalog.

He used to do it all by hand.
He definitely has that investment casting down!  

[ArdWrknTrk]

https://youtu.be/hmjv5t3czxM?si=Tg2HvucNXIwLPpB3

[Gary Lewis]

Cool!  Not done watching yet, but at 6:50 there are some captain's chairs that I'd love to have.  But, speaking of seats, my guy just called so I'm headed to pick those up and will post more later...

[Gary Lewis]

Not a voltmeter, and he said it twice!

[85lebaront2]

I would love to see if he could do a 460 EFI intake like the later Chevy 454s used, a really nice ram tuned manifold.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'm pretty certain that he could.
I just don't think there's anybody that would pay for it.

If you're going to go there, you've lost any originality, and at that point it might as well be a cheap LS swap.
With better support and junkyard parts available everywhere. 🤷‍♂️

[ArdWrknTrk]

This literally dropped in my recommended an hour ago.
Sam is an aviation geek and pretty much nails all the points.


https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU?si=h3gbZGuERKFhuTg-