What do you mean..

100% trick!...luv the 550 spyder!...i'd drive it!...if i could fit inside it

How long are the primaries?

What transaxle is in it ?  ..........Bruce

More pictures of the rear suspension, please!

I do like it.  But the exhaust looks very close to the fiberglass.  Are you worried about heat melting, warping or discoloring the fiberglass?  I also don't recognize the frame.  Its not a Beck or a Vintage.  Is it a one off custom?

@Stan: Sorry, I don't know what you mean by primaries... I'm from Germany... do you mean the drive shafts?

@aircooled: It's a reworked 914 transaxle. We wanted the engine to be as mid-engined as possible and this gearbox was ideal. However, the gearstick had to be changed several times

@550 Phil: Temperature is totally fine! The exhaust is also still a bit away from the bonnet... it's hard to see in the pictures. The engine is air & oil cooled. It was originally a 1992 Chamonix, but we rebuilt almost the entire frame and more or less built it around the engine. We also changed the bodywork and replaced a lot of it with aluminium. So the car actually only weighs 548kg. It took me almost 2 years to rebuild the car.

I've attached a few more photos.

@Andi that's a fabulous car....absolutely a rolling piece of art ....something to be surely proud of  @ford356outlaw would love this car...and his is also a a very well done car

@aircooled hey bruce...lucky for you this car is in germany...that's gotta be some stiff competition for the upcoming bruce SPYDER...haa!

@jncspyder posted:

@Andi that's a fabulous car....absolutely a rolling piece of art ....something to be surely proud of  @ford356outlaw would love this car...and his is also a a very well done car

Thank you!

@Andi posted:

@Stan: Sorry, I don't know what you mean by primaries... I'm from Germany... do you mean the drive shafts

Sorry -- "the primaries" as in the header "primary tube" length from the exhaust flange to the collector. There are 4 primary tubes-- I'm curious how long they are and what size, as the length and diameter determine the torque curve of the engine.

Also: I know this is an obscure American idiom, but I think you should change your screen name to "Reverend Andi" because that car is righteous.

Wow @Andi gorgeous build

I'll agree to the "work of art" observation.  Attention to detail here is extraordinary. A beautiful build and probably really a trick to drive.  I cannot comment intelligently on the exhaust business, except to say that it sure is a lot of piping.  I'll guess it works; it sure looks the bomb!!

@Stan Galat posted:

Sorry -- "the primaries" as in the header "primary tube" length from the exhaust flange to the collector. There are 4 primary tubes-- I'm curious how long they are and what size, as the length and diameter determine the torque curve of the engine.

Also: I know this is an obscure American idiom, but I think you should change your screen name to "Reverend Andi" because that car is righteous.

ahhh, ok... in Germany we call that a "Fächerkrümmer". The length is 130cm an 45mm diameter.. Reverend Andi ))

@Andi  here in california we just say "das auto ist wunderbar"

When you flip the rear deck up, what happens to the tail pipe?

Fabulous.  Interior, dash.  Rolling art.

@edsnova posted:

When you flip the rear deck up, what happens to the tail pipe?

A cover is fitted to the body, which slides over the actual exhaust pipe when it is opened or closed

@550 Phil posted:

Fabulous.  Interior, dash.  Rolling art.

Thanks

@edsnova posted:

When you flip the rear deck up, what happens to the tail pipe?

"A cover is fitted to the body, which slides over the actual exhaust pipe when it is opened or closed"

If I think I know what Ed was asking, how do you swing up the rear deck, when the exhaust pipe sticks through it, and should interfere with the deck being raised?

I don't have to add that it's a beautiful car, a veritable work of art.

A real work of art !  Do you have photos of the front suspension ? Also some more detailed photos of the rear suspension !.........Bruce

@Bob: IM S6 posted:

"A cover is fitted to the body, which slides over the actual exhaust pipe when it is opened or closed"

If I think I know what Ed was asking, how do you swing up the rear deck, when the exhaust pipe sticks through it, and should interfere with the deck being raised?

I don't have to add that it's a beautiful car, a veritable work of art.

As already mentioned, one pipe is cut at an angle to the other. The exhaust cover is slightly curved. (exaggerated in the drawing)

@aircooled posted:

A real work of art !  Do you have photos of the front suspension ? Also some more detailed photos of the rear suspension !.........Bruce

I haven't taken any detailed photos of the front suspension. When he's on stage again, I'll remember that

Love the work on this car!  This is the direction I was hoping Bruce's car was going.

No where near Rick

Ach der liber!!  (Whatever that means.)  The front suspension is at a whole other level.  Makes my trailing arm torsion bar ball joints look like ... well, old VW stuff, which of course it is.   If I ever get back to Germany . . . maybe I'll be able to see it in person.  You have something very special here.

@El Frazoo posted:

Ach der liber!!  (Whatever that means.)

Auch der lieber! = Oh, heavens!

@El Frazoo posted:

The front suspension is at a whole other level.  Makes my trailing arm torsion bar ball joints look like ... well, old VW stuff, which of course it is.

He's only shown us the rear. That's the rear you're looking at, my friend the Frazzled One.

@El Frazoo posted:

You have something very special here.

Indeed. Special stuff is seldom appreciate by the marketplace, but it's nice to have a group of likeminded nitwits to share it with here, no?

That's Stupid-Cool, Reverend Andi. Righteous.

Danka, and gesundheit.

I've used up about all the German words I know.

Hi Stan, not quite right... 1 photo was from the front

@aircooled: I took a photo of the front... Unfortunately a bit dirty... was on tour with it at the weekend.

@Stan: good that there are still a few idiots out there

@El Frazoo: You'll have to come to Bavaria, near the Alps

@Andi - You appear to have solved several problems regarding front suspension and rack and pinion steering on a Spyder that are frequent subjects of discussion here.  Nice work.  Very nice.

Just "Very nice"?? ... Lane, you are the master of understatement.