Resurrecting Jalpa #359

I've been following your thread on this project for some time. Incredible and congratulations to you on it all! Your hard work and attention to detail have really paid off. Time now to enjoy the accolades, and the Jalpa of course.

Wallstreet Journal photoshoot was fun. Unfortunately, the nut on the rearmost engine mount backed out due to a nut not being nylon and staying in place. Ended up limping it home. But I got it fixed last night and we had an epic amount of fun. Super nice people.

 

 

 

 

Emissary brought his murci and came along for moral support, and it meant the world that he showed up. He's such a good dude and an awesome friend. It was nice to have a fellow lambo nut there to be supportive.

 

 

I celebrated with a behike 56 i've been sitting on for 4 years, and a bottle of lamborghini campoleone that a friend gifted me for the occasion.

Congrats! I just finished a bottle of that Campoleone (2006) last night. Pretty good!

Just got done with the interview portion.  The article will be online for the Wallstreet Journal on january 2nd, and in the paper Wednesday, the 3rd.

 

Just got done with the interview portion.  The article will be online for the Wallstreet Journal on january 2nd, and in the paper Wednesday, the 3rd.

 

Congratulations! And Merry Christmas. Vic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/love-for-lambo...4903228?tesla=y

 

if that doesn't work maybe try it from his post which seems to work

https://www.facebook.com/ajbaime/posts/7788...234?pnref=story

So awesome. Well deserved D!

Congrats!

That's just simply awesome, huge congrats D!

 

Just when you thought this story couldn't get any better....what are you going to do for an encore??? Well deserved, congrats!

 

One hell of a way to start 2018.

Perfect timing for the new year and setting goals! Great lesson for others

Just when you thought this story couldn't get any better....what are you going to do for an encore??? Well deserved, congrats!

 

One hell of a way to start 2018.

 

I don't know yet. Come summer time I want to take it to a trackday, and also would love to take it to consorso italiano. I'd love nothing more than to meet valentino balboni. He's my childhood hero.

Put it on the boat and take it for a tour of Europe, do the Alps and visit the motherland

I picked up about 10 copies of the Wall Street Journal today at starbucks for frirends and family. Page A10. Turned out so good!

I feel like i need to post this. It feels like I waited all day to do it, but it's more like 32 years because I wanted to do this since I was a kid.

^Well, you've done it! So congrats!

I don't know yet. Come summer time I want to take it to a trackday, and also would love to take it to consorso italiano. I'd love nothing more than to meet valentino balboni. He's my childhood hero.

 

Once he hears your story, I'm guessing Valentino will look forward to meeting you, as well ...

 

Regarding heroes ... Thanks for reminding us of just how cool it is to be a LP member ... Meaning ...

 

We get to chat with some of our heroes ... For instance ...

 

For 4 years, in a single car garage, book in one hand, wrench in the other ...

 

I'd say that qualifies you ...

 

Especially, when I imagine me doing what you did ...

 

THANKS ... For sharing ...

 

 

 

 

I think that’s one of the most meaningful photos I’ve ever seen!

I think that’s one of the most meaningful photos I’ve ever seen!

Amazing accomplishment, and fantastic recognition for your dedication and persistence!

Congratulations doesn’t quite cover it!!!

 

Enjoy!!

Congrats, Derek.

 

Super cool seeing it all come together over these past four years.

Thank you for the kind words everyone. I'm not even sure what to say. You've all been so supportive to me and LP feels like a second family to me, it really does.

Well done...I must admit I had doubts in the beginning.NICE JOB!

Well guys I got tired of trying to find stuff that would "kinda fit" due to the holes in my center console and what not.  I bought a 3d printer... figured i'd share my adventures so far.

 

Night 1: Nothing works. I can get it to load filament, things are groovy there. But literally nothing sticks. After using a bunch of online calibration methods I came to the conclusion that my nozzle needs to be much closer than "a piece of paper" due to the ridiculously thin layers mine puts down. (100 microns)

 

Night 2: It's printing, but stuff looks like trash. I keep messing with it, and it slowly gets better.

 

Night 3: A friend who does this stuff for a living calls me and walks me through the various steps over the phone. I video call him, we figure out it needs to be even CLOSER. I print some super shitty models and they look like garbage.

 

Night 4: Finally stuff is printing halfway decent. Needs more calibration. But it's CLOSER.

 

Night 5: I've now spent 8 hours printing objects. I look up the specific material I'm using online, set new temperatures for the heat bed and filament. I finally after loading my console piece in from my software get it started and WHOA. It looks good! Layer 1 at last is good. 9 hours remaining. Not perfect, but it'll be good enough to look good and use.

 

Today: Wake up part is nearly finished and looking much better, only tiny calibrations to go from here.

 

Came home, and holy crap it was finished! Threw some hide on it, cleaned off the excess material, trimmed it to fit the switches. I ended up hunting some down from a random dude in Austria of all places, I could literally not find ANY more of them, said screw it, bought them because factory, and threw them in here.

 

Need to test switches and run wires first, but man, finally!

 

Figured I'd share some pics of the progress from the failed prints, terrible prints, horrific prints, and finally the decent one.

 

The worst part about calibrating it is that the only way to really properly find out is making tiny adjustments and doing an entire first layer, throwing it away and repeating.

 

Here's my failed prints next to the decently finished one (still not perfect)

 

 

Here's the good one before the final print, but the power went off during a power surge, entire print failed.

 

 

Another layer of a failed print.

 

 

Finally, the decent one. Not cleaned up, but fits where I want it.

 

 

The switches fit!

 

 

Time for hide

 

 

After trimming, glue, hide, and fitting.  Not putting it in till i run wires, but sweet!

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind this isn't the stock location for the switches.  They're further up, but... the previous owner moved the window switches there and put a gauge pod where the original switches were for head temps.  I'll be replacing those with O2 banks.

So the velocity stacks from the original 42mm DCNF webers are a flow killer since they don't match. Been working this week on making some that I can print out. After that i'll print out some air boxes.

 

These are 40mm, with a 7 degree peak at the top, then used some bends and flares to make a nice round bit at the top and merged them. Should be a nice improvement.

 

 

Very impressive.