CMC Porsche Spyder 550 SN2448 Stolen – suspicious Ebay activity

Updated 3/17/10

The brand and type of CMC porsche spyder in red appeared for sale on Ebay for a few hours and then disappeared.

So it is my hope that the word is out there that SN 002448 is a stolen model. Keep you eyes open. I would like to regain my car.

ksspyder55@gmail.com

Stolen on way from US to Cologne Germany. Red SN 002448 CMC Porsche 550 spyder.
Please help me recover this rare model

sn 002448 red 1:24 red Porsche Spyder 550

sn 002448 red 1:24 red Porsche Spyder 550

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The hidden truth on Beck Spyders – the below is a mishmash of Beck “common sense” since I bought my kit. Solutions may follow.

Feel that chafing tire when cutting your wheels to the left or right in you Beck spyder?

Chuck Beck did something back in the 1990’s that shifts the left front tire into the fiberglass wheel arch. See my Run and Gun 1995 short youtube and hear the grinding of the Beck california factory car. The thing Beck did was weld the front stock torsion beams to the left.

Stock geometry is then supposed to work – source Person to person discussion at Firebird Raceway, Run and Gun 1995.

“Supposed” is a big word.

With 185Michelin XZX front tires that Beck originally recommended and I tried, the tire edge chafed the inside of the left wheel arch. Changing the wheel offset still limits turning radius and rubs inside of wheel well. See wiki for wheel geometry and offset. In 2011, I went with 135 Michelin X front tires and get clearance . Spyders were race designed. Low speed turns did not require that the front wheels steer drastically. Street driving makes it desirable to make the turn radius smaller. However, speeding up the wheel steer angle [such is done with early Bugs] change might create rollover threat. Believe it or not, many of the early extended road races involved Spyders using power to steer the vehicle using oversteer on loose roads. Very long races on rock and dirt were big winners for the team Porsche drivers.

Old race movie reels showed that a tightened fist could fit between the front tire and the wheel arch. Have you seen any Beck kits with that much clearance?

The fist/spacing may have an unexpected source. Front tire loading on 1950’s Spyders was variable due to fuel tank location. The front gas tank was sized  up to 26 gallons. That’s over 200 pounds directly over the front axle!

I am working with some new folks on wheel/alignment/swingaxle geometry.

More caster in front seems to be a good thing.

Get toe-in correct.

Front camber angle has suggestions all over the map. I am going for zero. After all, this is a street driver. I want stability above 40MPH [not happening now – summer 2011.]  I would like to raise the front by using a taller front shock set [coil overs front and rear.]

Going back to front Camber – supposed to be very close to zero. However, with a dry weight of 1200 pounds and my weight of 300 pounds, tilt is a factor. The small front wheels lower the front too. Therefore caster is near zero and causes wandering.

I have a Kharman Ghia front sway bar I would like to fit.

Shaking the front wheels side to side seems to indicate wheel bearings are loose. Full grease replacement of the front wheel bearings is prudent.

Along with front shock problem, rear springs can not be set high enough to obtain adequate camber. The sagging rear 3.88 final drive dries the outer bearings and causes high heat in bearings. Rear toe in is not adjustable with the Spyder replica.

With delrin front bushings and urethane rear bushings, rattle is extreme. Recommendations for this problem???

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Added notes –
I watched a number of vintage films of the real Spyders this week. Front clearances [loaded vehicle] as seen directly from the side showed a broad fist width between the top of the tire and the wheel arch. This would raise the car at least 4 inches in the front. In fact, with the much smaller diameter wheels, five or six inches would be more reasonable.

Rear suspension has two factors to determine the clearance between the tire top and the inside of the wheel arch.
1.    Does clearance actually increase if the target is to eliminate sag????
2.    By raising the front, the rear height factor is determined by getting the frame ground clearance to near parallel [front to back body pan parallel to the ground.] . Real Spyders actually had a minor up drift going from the BACK to the FRONT.   Why all the lift? Running the Carrera Panamericana needed clearance for large stones.

Summary of these notes
Increase rear spring rate to eliminate sag. Combine rear elevation with front elevation to bring car clearance to road. Five or six inches of road clearance must also result in the frame with a rise in clearance from the back to the front. Keep in mind driver weight and up to 100 pounds of fuel. Clearance of front tire to wheel arch in body to a broad fist distance. Even more due to the small tires. Spring rate or design knowledge in the front geometry are very important.

Finally, in this video of the era, see how far the left front is located with the 16 very narrow tires.    Look around these vintage videos. Low cars had tires tucked way under.

Need help in mounting shock absorbers.

Here are several pictures of the shock absorber mounting and trailing arms on the front of my Beck Spyder. It uses the ball joint front end. The front end alignments are stock. No drastic drops or lifts are undertaken. 

Joanie and Mike have the touch – two black and white old original prints

Horse hitching post - sandstone with forged iron ring on top stolen before we moved inI think the blur is a chicken moving across the yardAll are welcome

New improved Post of oil plume remediation/ CO2 sequestering/Burn baby burn

Solution to oil column danger

Crude is difficult to burn off at the surface. Like an oil-fired furnace, oil must be atomized into air and ignited.

This wellhead lamp proposal is to burn the oil at depth; foam the oil cloud with air and strike a match, all at almost a mile under sea.

The solution will test the sequestering of CO2 in the ocean.

Here’s how to Get Rid of Crude Oil for Dummies- Clean the spill by lighting a lamp for the tempest-tossed.

While experts try putting their fingers in the dike, or spreading Brawny paper towels all over the Gulf of Mexico, a third solution flickers – lighting an ancient Roman oil lamp. Step one/Article one – long fire-proof hoses with millions of holes in the mesh. Use the material for  Indy driver’s fire proof suits – Its called Nomex. It won’t burn even with high temperature burning near its surface.

Step two – air will be brought to the oil volcano, in other words, to the base of the Nomex hoses, which then bubble air up their length. The quantity of air would be delivered at 2500psi [water pressure at the briny depths of the well head.]  Actual aeration would be at some depth less than the wellhead for practical reasons.

How is air delivered at sufficient quantities and pressures? An air compressor chain uses the outlet of a first compressor to feed a second compressor and so on, raising the pressure at each step. As air is compressed, the heated air would be cooled with heat exchangers between each link of the chain.

Finally, step three, NASA’s match.

Ever wonder how the Space Shuttle’s engines get lit? In engineering terms, BFM – big friggin’ matches. Truly. Watch some Youtube video of a launch and you see the pyrotechnics. You could light a billion candles or one of Rush Limbaugh’s Fuente Opus X’s.

Warning: Metaphor alert

Sort of gives the Gulf a nice warm Weber kettle glow. Mix in some Zatarain’s and the Gulf will fill with Bubba Gump Jambalaya. The Gulf may fizz like Champagne.

Seriously, it would take time to bring the compressor chain online [practical way to achieve volume and pressure.] Tests could be done with air tanks at 2500psi with NASA’s match attached. An optimal depth needs to be tested. Several designs would need to be tested for the aeration hose separation. IF meteorologists can track hurricanes 200 miles across, tracking the oil column [which should show up as a fluid with a different density] should be doable.

The Roman lamp solution developed above brings with it the idea of portability. Nothing in the design prohibits the outfitting of Roman lamp ships to rid the ocean of oil at any depth and any distance from the well.

Patent pending

Bob Polys

Edwardsville, Kansas

Deep Sea BP Oil – Wellhead Fix

Volcano vs Quasi Deep Sea Volcano

Ignite spill at source.

Seeing pictures of deep sea volcanoes suggest that aerating the area around the oil head and then igniting it with an array of carbon arcs at some lesser depth would be no more harmful than a deep sea volcano.

PLEASE CREDIT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR PICTURE.

Beautiful CMC Porsche Spyder diecast model for sale on Ebay

I have no ties with the seller but the item is gorgeous.

It is the exact same model as the one stolen from me, except the Serial Number on mine was 2448. Please keep your eyes open for 2448. I am offering a reward and would love to get it back.

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Personal attacks on private citizen seen as reasonable to get noble hispanic judge on the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court overturned Sotomayor based on her application of the law, not on the merits of the case. That is the Constitutional thing for the Appellate Court and the Supreme Court to do.

Duh.

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