I bought a INDYCAR without an engine.

[Music] we are about to embark on one of the craziest projects yet this kind of came a little sooner than we were expecting but it's dude it's a shared problem now more of a childhood dream i guess you would say right yeah the opportunity came up and it's especially if you like cars this is like god tear like thing yes so it's it's uh i support this 100 and you know we're going to do it right somebody's coughing right now yeah that looks sick let's go park next to him ah that's so nuts we created somebody bought that you know yeah somebody's a lucky guy there she goes we're following her to the to make sure we don't get ripped off that is the definition of a race car oh my god i'm have to break my ribs and my shoulders to fit in that thing yeah i just saw the suspension working yes give me some bb dust moves now so beautiful let me just see if it rolls forward first all right we're good do you see this you can hit the front corner let's get a little bit more wood i think he's gonna do it there we are that is epic [Music] [Music] [Music] as we get it this is exactly how it looks so much to go over you can tighten and loosen this oh no way just like your alternator pretty much yeah so we don't have a steering wheel but we have wheel dollies the dollies that do the wheels and so i was saying to the guy that previously owned it that we could probably pick the car up my pr for dead lifting is like 1800 pounds whoa yeah all the way the other way oh my god i picked the whole i thought this is ridiculously light this is a real race car you can't push it from there [Music] [Music] yeah i mean we need a place to put this dude you got in the table what are you doing it is time to break this card down we want to see everything about it there's so many unknowns i don't get what it is in many sense you see him from a distance but not like this isaiah wanted to see what was under this panel before we finished eating and not filming but i've made him wait no you you're over there you're working you have to you have to work on uh three rotor oil coolers sorry i already did this sorry too bad let's see what is under door number two oh look at that we got some honeycombs going on there that's for structural rigidity of course yeah this is hella flush slammed these are technically shocks but they're like 200 000 pounds per inch a lot of ways of adjusting it look we have all these things we know how long they need to be you can actually see where my feet sees go that's the steering rack that almost looks like where the dry sump would go the old-school 7-up look sorry we're at house of baja last year very first thing is make sure i fit your hands are warm that's why i don't know if my [Laughter] this is gonna get claustrophobic it's not like that that's like stage one yeah my feet aren't touching the pedals yet oh you have to like go tomb status yeah the coffee we're laying in there like a 15 20 30 degree angle wow put them in a coffin this is gonna be your coffin my feet are just touching the pedals oh you know what unlike the four rotor though i have room for the helmet look at how low my feet are his feet are literally all the way like right here yeah the ceremony you know just [Music] that is a lot of room oh i've got side mirrors so i need a steering wheel but you know what i need more i feel like i'm missing one little thing i'm going to get out to show you guys what i'm talking about my shoulders i've got child birthing shoulders for hips their hips for [Laughter] yeah that's my brother kev he would not be able to sit in this at all he gets claustrophobic on an airplane so race quip provided the helmet and everything for the four rotor and that's staying right here these guys have been wonderful but i got a little something special for this helmet and it's one of the reasons that made me pull the trigger on this car way too soon right there it's upside down but i pull up nice and slow there we are this is a valvoline vehicle it's obviously gonna be running valvoline this video is not brought to you by valveline my life is though alvin's been amazing uh they don't even know about this car but it just it just when i saw that it had to be so we're gonna put the valvoline thing up there i i'm not getting rid of the even though there's a race clip there keeping the race clip there because that's i'm very proud of that but race clip and valvoline i want to run through what we discover as we're looking at it i don't have a full understanding of indy cars there are probably maybe 10 people in the world more but you know i mean there's not many people that really know these cards it's a very boutique culti world almost like rotary engines but first of all let's talk about arrow this is adjustable down force for the front on each side i'm assuming you tune that for the track it's not active we could make it active oh my god we could wire up solenoids to pull these up oh hit the brakes and they pop up we're not part of a racing class we're allowed to do whatever the hell we want alrighty we got knack-a-ducks this was probably for my balls the suspension i am so curious to model this and figure out what is going on with the suspension those are hollow i'm hoping that you can see these massive air vents in here that's going to be radiators and what gives me hope that a rotary can run in here properly is this button right here boost to me means turbo charging which means extra cooling needed so that's very exciting to me 15 000 rpm is also very exciting to me the transmission has to be geared for high rpm rotaries of high rpm it's a little tall for a rotary but hey we can do it we can of course take these off but i'm assuming that there's gonna be radiators i don't know if we're gonna run intercooler first thought of my mind is let's do math because that means no intercooler we'll get back to that that means back here is somebody's going to be pouring tons of fuel into either this part right here that's a vent and that's for phil right there okay so the fill is over what actually gets me interested is this right here that's for air jacks this is where the engine goes and so of course we're gonna have maybe we just mount the turbo up here but some sort of snorkel or whatever this is before it just fastens for a thing so this is a sprung bolt just like how this last one is yeah so like i mean everything's carbon as you can see so we got carbon ducts and then the back is like this is like a missile like an airplane we've got more naca ducts and back here something that's very exciting is i see a welded exhaust right there there's a heat shielding on the control arms right here all the venting for the uh brakes drive shafts these are so hollow that's amazing and then a true chassis mounted rear wheel it looks like we can hook it onto things tons of mounting bolts and like that positions for this that's going to change camber gain right now it would be this would be at maximum camber gain because of how low that's coming down tow double a arm that's actually cool and easy good news is we have a transmission very very important title the video doesn't say it just suggests what we're talking about right here this thing got no engine ted what could we put in here man i wonder what would fit in here we'll come up with something what sort of way do you think a two three rotor four rotor sounds nice this is more of like a skeleton compared to the actual transmission or gearbox you start off with the two you know and if you get bored you got a few four rotors just chilling somewhere yeah cooling is going to be the biggest issue you can see the fuel tank we got fuel lines capped off we've got i think this is probably a throttle or reverse there's got to be a transmission linkage i think that's what that thing was at my arm yeah and i got another thing here i want to make sure we adapt to this exhaust piece this is where it goes to whoa look at the arms have all these notches where's the where's the spring honestly i think these are temporary pieces this is why it's expensive as so i see that the radiators are definitely gonna go there's tons of cooling we can do in here there's this nice monocoque that you have here the cool thing about this and even with the f1 cars i mean kind of almost the same thing for the sense the engine and gearbox are all a part of the actual chassis and kind of tie it all up together that's why the suspension parts are part of that that makes perfect sense if this was just chilling in the air there's no support for all the air suspension so we'll have to build a rotary engine rear to front cover where it wedges between these two the biggest challenge i have looking at this right now the input shaft is down there

Channel: Rob Dahm

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Id: 6PvcdsOJlkY

Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 22 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/redstern]

It's not that I don't think all the things Rob is doing is cool as hell, because I absolutely do, but I'm starting to get worried about the amount of new projects he's starting without any of his existing ones being anywhere close to completion.

As of now he has the 4 rotor, the 3 rotor revival, the 2 rotor Corvette, the 4 rotor C8 Corvette, the 6 rotor, and now a rotary Indy car.

I'm just concerned he's going to start having issues with too many projects slowing down everything or reducing the quality of his work due to money, stress, procrastination, or whatever else.

[u/TerranPhil]

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[u/avboden]

Honestly looks like the rotary will fit okay but the low input shaft and the engine being a stressed member will be tricky to overcome but they'll manage. Dude's got too many damn projects but his quality has gone wayyyyy up as of late. The engines themselves seem to be his forté and really what he's diving into more.

[u/wtfthisisntreddit]

Im not big into indycar's or racing but this thing looks so cool and its refreshing to see some build (to an extent) something other than a basic exotic car. Hopefully it sounds like a 787B with a 4 rotor in it

[u/BCeagle2008]

First mistake was calling a CART car an Indycar! Big beef between CART and Indycar.

That looks like a car that's been just a museum/display/barn car for a long, long time. It's going to take a ton of work to make it safe again. Literally every bolt will have to removed and inspected and a large portion of the components completely replaced.

There are many shops that maintain historic racecars, including this chassis (It's a 97 Lola T97/00), and they can offer a lot of advice and help, so the project is not absurd, it's just a lot of work for someone who knows nothing about formula cars. A lot of the work is very specialized (shock tuning, gearbox rebuild, etc.) and it could be a bitch to find spares for things like the suspension arms, meaning they will have to custom fabricate them (or pay someone to do it - $$$$).

Also, rotaries in formula cars is not a unique thing. You can go buy one right now ready to go with a rotary engine (Pro Formula Mazda). So it's not that "cool" to throw one in a formula car. It's just going to be a pain in the ass for this car because they will need to do a lot of custom work to get the rotary to link up to the existing transmission (or to a different one).

If I had to bet I would say they don't finish this project, but perhaps they'll surprise me. If they really wanted a formula car there's a lot better projects out there. There's a reason you can buy old formula cars for dirt cheap. (this one was listed for $15k)

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[u/shigs21]

the engine is the most expensive and complicated part of a formula car