Body to head for paint next.

Can you guess which body is not built by Kevin Knox and the team at Plastec?

Frank Vaski came by on Saturday to work out the body and paint logistics for our sponsor COLLISION PLUS.

Pat"s DriveLine 10,000rpm shafts

Werner is installing and aligning the drive shafts.

Trevor Jewkes is the branch manager of PAT'S DRIVELINE, #4, 18771 - 96th Ave, Surrey BC.
a member of the

GEAR CENTRE GROUP

( www.gearcentregroup.com )

Trevor built two shafts for the Goldenhawk that fit both transmissions . They are 1" different to allow for the use of lock up or standard torque converters and shaft speeds at 330mph of 10,000 rpm.

Not an easy order to fill!

To all the people at

Gear Centre Group Thanks

Brilliant Tank?

The oil tank for the cycling of the differential lube is almost complete and as you can or can't see it is being lovingly polished by the crew. This is the last of the fabrications in aluminum, just the exhaust to complete and the car is ready to be disassembled for final cleaning and Power Coating at APEX Refinishing in Burnaby.

APB - APB all points bulletin

www.3Ddiversions.com

www.diversions3D.com

www.kevinknox.com

check them out!

ALL THESE SITES WILL LEAD YOU TO THE MOST

INDUSTRIAL, MECHANICAL, 3D DRAWING, RAPID PROTOTYPING, CNC

and LASER CUTTING, COMPUTER GRAPHICS and Model Making

Business in CANADA.

Owner and humble creative/genius Kevin Knox.

Doing something special??

Call him at 604-930-2120 for quote.

Diversions Custom Oil Pump Cover

Kevin Knox was up to his creative DIVERSIONS again! This time he has designed and built a clear inspection cover for the Differential oiling system that Werner built. Now we can check the belt and pulleys at a glance. (If you click on the picture it will enlarge and you can see the Goldenhawk by Diversions inscription.) Now we will have to weld the bracket to the frame, then reshape the aluminium, smooth and polish the parts.

"NICE WORK MEN!"

www.kevinknox.com

Custom parts for the creative builder.

Fan ride of the week.

While visiting TRUCK SPECIALISTS we met this guy, Marcel Larouche, from Surrey,BC. He was happy to show us his special creation for his company to haul trailers of all sizes. He started with a MACK that is usually built for concrete mixer service and made a customized tractor.
BEWARE OF THE WATCH DOG if you are admiring it along the roads. It would make a suitable rig for transporting the Hawk, don't you think?



LONG LOAD and Heavy!

FRANKFORTH'S WATERJET CUTTING

FRANKFORTH'S WATERJET CUTTING is a our newest sponsor. Sean Frankforth is the man for the job when it comes to quick and accurate cutting of any materials. He donated his time to cut our exhaust manifold and turbo flanges. See the photo of the neat way he cut the plugs for the end of the steel log manifold, just insert and weld. Pretty slick!

Sean works in conjunction with his father, one of the brightest guys in the truck transmission, differential and suspension business since the 60's. You may know him as Dennis (Frankforth) of TRUCK SPECIALISTS

in Port Kells, Langley, BC.

Call Sean or Dennis

604-8884606

email: truckspc@telus.net

Darryl's Drag Car is GOLD Chevy II

Fan and sponsor rep ride

This beautiful 1962 Chevy II with a 383 stroker small block and a turbo 350 spinning 411's gears in the diff, is and like its driver/owner Darryl Tippe a "mild mannered racer". A street machine in 62 that ran 10.40's with a hydraulic camshaft and leaf springs would have made the mighty Hemis take notice! For me it is nice to see that nitrous oxide injection is readily accepted and used for fun racers because that was my vision for it back in 1976 when I first showed it to the crowd at the old Mission Raceway.

(see photos below of the demo cars and the 150hp unit from INSTANT HORSE POWER INC)

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

"Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY !"

THE RADIO ANNOUNCER'S VOICE CRIED OUT TO STIR THE YOUNG BLOOD IN RACERS EVERYWHERE from California to Newfoundland. THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY TWENTIES AND THIRTIES. I LOVED THE SMELLS OF THE DRAG STRIPS , THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF A WORLD FULL OF ACTIVITY AND EXCITEMENT.

Bonneville brings back those feelings and adds a new calmer excitement and it is not as charged by competition, but rather a feeling of camaraderie.

Kind of like living in a small town as opposed to the big city.

Kool Jewelry at KOOL COAT

Talk about turning a sows ear into a silk purse!
Spence Kimberley and his assistant, Brian Prystarz have done a big up job on the old stock manifold, remember, I ported and flow bench tested it on previous blog. With two coats of ceramic inside it is very slippery and will increase the flow as well as

'IT LOOKS GREAT!

Thanks guys for doing all the interior parts of the engine to give us better control of heat.

600hp at the touch of a button in your Diesel?

Mr.John Wood is the second generation nitrous developer under the moniker of NITROUS EXPRESS, He hails from Texas "Everything is big in TEXAS"

I have faith in his product because they are scientifically computer controlled. As am one of the four original developers and promoter, I find some of the n2o manufactures are simple parts sellers. Learn more about nitrous and how it works in details you will under stand,call me.

Big thanks for the system. It is similar to the ones we built with many sophisticated upgrades. Will use two of them!!

NITROUS EXPRESS 600 Diesel HP!

The man with the big smile is John, owner of CHIEF CHASSIS Inc. 8618-217A Street, Langley,BC. 604-888-2588 is the NITROUS EXPRESS dealer and installer. John is happy to be representing our sponsor and assisting the Goldenhawk project. CHIEF CHASSIS has been in business for 14 years, building race and street rods. He specially likes to jig narrow/braced Ford 9" diff's and stuffs them with special parts, before he fabricates the cages /roll bars and 4 link suspensions. Thank to John and NX

Check out the new twins!

No matter how you look at it, Peak Diesel Performance has supplied the right parts for peak boost and horsepower.

Call Harry toll free 877-858-PEAK (7325)

Safety first, KIRKEY Seat has it covered.

The seat fits perfectly and it came with all the approved cover. Makes the crew grin!

Sponsor of the day -KIRKEY RACING seats!

Thanks to Kirkey's man Kevin we received our super safe seat from the Canadian manufacturer of top quality racing seats. They are the choice of all the top builders in North America. Check their website for all your hot rod and race car builds.

www.kirkeyracing.com Thanks Kevin for taking the time to check out our website.

Peak Diesel Performance delivers Twin Holsets

Harry Kelleher, owner of (check our link)Peak Diesel Performance sourced the best turbo combination the Holset 40 + 52 for Piers Harry. Piers and Harry worked with sponsor, Holset's engineer, Malcolm Clark at Cummins in Memphis Tenn. to spec the turbos for the twin set up on our Cummins 3.9Bt.

Thanks Y'all!

BASF Water borne paints for Goldenhawk

Thanks to Louis McCaughan, regional manager for BASF, I was able to chose a gold color for the G'Hawk that will look good in sun or under artificial lites at the shows. They have thousands to pick from so it is easy to select one you like, in my case I was trying to remember 47 years ago.
It will be a metallic gold and is "GREEN" because it is water borne, the way of the future and good for the world.

Thank you BASF for helping us help the environment.

Able Autobody in Walnut Grove Baking Body

Able Auto body is a member of Collision Plus, #2-20120 92A St. in Langley's Walnut Grove was kindly donating their big bake oven to anneal the rear body parts to remove some of the tendency to spring flat when unfastened.

Pictured here is the head painter Dave, service manager Darragh, Kevin Knox and Doug Hannesson the owner. The plan is to place the parts in the oven overnight @160f while they are held in shape by wooden struts.

What did you do on the May 24 weekend?

Werner and Kevin gave up their weekend family time to work on the final parts of the landing gear and to install the tail. Paul Dukes from HYDRA STEER came to work on the steering shafts, and a good thing he did because we need to change some angles now that we have all the engine compartment equipment in place.

This team is dedicated and driven. What fantastic people !

A tale of tails - F-86 that is!

Werner and Kevin are the guys who get the job done! Here they are fitting the mounting system they fabricated to hold the F-86 tail secure at any speed.

Check out the shirt! Click on the picture to enlarge.

Engine Boss very happy with head.

Piers Harry inspected the head upon its return from Zoltan's porting and polishing work.