The 'first' Indy car - The Wasp - available for purchase

[mobiusone]

Wow! That looks worth every penny. I've seen the real car in the museum plenty of times, and this looks spot on. Indycals you always amaze me with your wonderful products!!!

[billgtp]

Awesome Mike

[indycals]

WOW...that is simply amazing what you achived there. As a 3D geek myself I'm amazed how many people use that amazing 3D printing technology. Do you mind telling me were you had the parts printed and what technology was used !?!...they look great.

thanks

Daniel

Shapeways - FUD and FXD material.

Roughness of the parts required coming up with some creative ways to smooth them out. That's part of a sanding stick on the edge of the Xacto blade. Have to be careful the blade doesn't go all the way through, otherwise you scratch the hell out of the part (yes I have done that).

[Eagle50]

That is very cool. And the kit photos alone are informative. A three cylinder engine? I thought Volvo the first to overcome the three cylinder vibration problem in the 1960s. And "furniture handles" for the bonnet? This is fun just to look at. What a piece of history!

She looks like she'll be a winner, Michael.

Cheers, Chris

[indycals]

Actually it's a straight six - each head houses 2 pistons. There have been some comments wondering how the carb feeds cylinders 1 & 6, and it was determined that there was some crude internal channeling.

[indycals]

The early history of Indy is pretty interesting. I think it was 1914 that a 4 cylinder overhead cam Peugeot won the race - that basic design is still the same basic 4 cylinder layout we use today (and would dominate Indy through 1976). 112 years later and NASCAR still hasn't discovered overhead cams

[indycals]

The Wasp was the first car to really use streamlining and weight savings. By not running a riding mechanic they were able to make the car more narrow and the pointy tail was further effort at streamlining. The car was built and raced in 1910 (and wrecked and rebuilt). By 1911 the car was tried-and-true. Driver Ray Harroun knew that he went much faster than 75ph the tires would not last more than a few laps, so he set a strategy to drive a constant 75mph - and he went so far to predict that this strategy - and the known qualities of the car (and it's reliability) would win the race - he was right and he won at an average of just over 74mph. He promptly retired from racing in victory lane and lived until January 1968. His son attended the 100th anniversary 500 in 2011 before he passed away in December of that year.

[MoFo]

set a strategy to drive a constant 75mph

Oh the deep, deep irony.

[daveyman]

Very interesting. A very impressive project.

[indycals]

I have a parts list posted:
http://indycals.net/wasp/Wasp-parts-list.pdf

Kit goes on sale Friday December 18 - I have 20 for this first run, and they will be numbered 1-20, kit #1 is up for auction on eBay for anyone who wants the first ever 1/25 scale Wasp kit, and the first full kit produced by Indycals (but not the last!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272073741229?ss ... 1555.l2649