T-100's been dead since the last week of March so I reinstated the Honda as my daily-driver.
9-years of languishing in the Texas climate wasn't kind at all to the car,but she's running and I've been able to work after 4-months with zero income.
At 347,000-miles she's getting mpg figures in line with previous years.
The boat-tail was reclaimed by nature long ago,but I have the remains of the nose,front wheelhouse gap-fillers,bellypan,rocker panel extensions,and rear skirts.
I went scavenging yesterday at CTC's Auto Ranch north of Denton (shopping site for Billy Gibbons) and found a "jet turbine inlet" center grille section from a '49 Ford which has the perfect inside diameter for an ideal Walter Korff cooling system inlet duct,based upon the CRX radiator dimensions.
I'll reconfigure the nose fascia to accept the new torus and fabricate the offset diverging round-to-rectangular duct transition.I'll be able to do the 'NFL' bullet-valve with this design.
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It remains too hot to do composites,but perhaps by October I can think about doing some wet layups.
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The new aft-body will be 'better' than what I lost.Lighter and longer and with a wrinkle I've waited over 20-years to try out.
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I'll be able to re-visit the 1-wheel trailer project and get some closure with that as well.
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With only 18.5 sq-ft projected frontal area I might get a good Cd measured at the new Darko tunnel in Ogden,Utah.It would be on the way to Bonneville and my brother's home in Carson City,Nevada.For what they're asking,it would actually be cheaper than what I paid CAR and DRIVER for top speed and coastdown testing back in 1991.
