The 60's F1 Car Returns with a V12

After 2 years of the Porschekart sitting in the corner collecting dust, It’s finally, actually happening. In Detail, while I build it. Actually.

Is it still a PorscheKart? Jury is still out. Either way, Racecar with a V12 and the first in a series of a complete, Ground up build. The Mercedes engine packs a lot of punch in a light formula frame, and everything will go according to plan.

And as always, My social media:

[WesleyKagan]

Somewhere between Premiere and Youtube I lost some audio between 6:02 and 6:15. Sorry about that everyone! It's a short explanation and rant about how difficult TPU is to print.

[henrycollins]

I’m in high school, one of the things I may go to college for is engineering. That is solely because of you and this build, thank you!

[CaseyPutsch]

You the man Wesley! We gotta get our formula cars together!

[GPNBOSTON]

So happy to see you back at this project, Wesley. I wouldn't be terribly disappointed to see an entire video dedicated to the equal length exhaust so we can hear the V12 scream... just saying

[RonaldFinger]

Always love to see practical use for 3D printing. Great video as always, and looking forward to the next two!

[DarkFiber]

Welcome back, Wesley!
What a wonderful series. I'm so excited to see the Kart take shape. This thing is one to pass on to your kids; it's that great of a project.
Also, love the Synthwave background music.

[TalkieT]

ALso you should strongly consider using a Teensy 4.1 and Canbus for all comms between systems on the car. I also have my ECU directly interfaced to the Teensy4.1 datalogger as well through CANbus. cuts cables down hugely and getting different systems talking to each other stops being a new problem each time.

[GleepGlop]

I'd be interested to see a fleet update. You seem to have an interesting mix of vehicles. Similar to Superfast Matt, you should collab.

[allieandevanfriesen]

I'm excited to see this trilogy or however many episodes it will have. I enjoy the way you share your process of testing and building. The iterations on the steering wheel add lightness!

[The.Talent]

I originally got suckered in by your mechanical logic gates. While I’m disappointed in the lack of further episodes of that this far, I’m more than impressed by the effort that you give to us on your channel and each new video you release is exciting anew! I’m a graduate mechanical engineer. Great to get inspired here!

[scottinWV]

I can't understand why this channel doesn't have more viewers/subscribers. Wesley is a very smart, innovative creator.

[diogenes]

If you would like to use the i2c bus in higher noise environments, or environments with longer runs, I would look into a bus accelerator. Analog devices sells the LTC4311 which I have seen used to fortify i2c busses on cat 5 cable. Signals competently and reliably can be transmitted for distances over 30m. I know you've found a workaround at this point, but in case you feel like it, you could look into this. Also: I would point out that the arduino uno/micro uses an ancient 8 bit microcontroller with extremely low speed and memory resources. I highly recommend looking at the arduino zero or nano, which use a much more modern 32 bit arm microprocessor and have tons more space in them.

[phillhall]

Awesome to see @theMountainGoats being appreciated!

[carterflom]

Post them videos!!! I’d watch them and I bet a lot of other people would too

[dchamp]

Thanks for the update Wesley. I really enjoy keeping up with the progress on your projects.

[fastdruid]

Very nice. Wow that is a lot of wires to wire through a steering wheel connector though.

I did try something similar once (ended up parking it for now) but used a 6-pin mini-din in the inside of the steering shaft. Lined up so that when the steering wheel was in the correct place it would just slot in. Only used 4 pins though, gnd, +12v, CAN L and CAN H. Used a custom circuit board to use CAN with an arduino. I'd link pictures but youtube won't let me.

[OmegaGarage]

Good to have you back! Hope you give us an update on all the projects

[wagnernascimento]

Great to see you back! Awesome work as always!

[ebamericana]

Good to see you back in the garage with some new content, Wes! Suggestion on the steering wheel rotary control knobs: (I know this, because I am also building my own steering wheel for my street car, and I am trying to print circuit boards to retrofit steering wheel controls from a ~2018 Hyundai into a 1998 Trans Am) the way that the factory avoids the spaghetti, is this--Instead of running each resistor to a separate wire out (a good idea at the start), each resistor runs into the next adjacent resistor, similar to how a rotary phone works. Select item 1, and the signal goes through one resistor, and then out. Select item 2, it goes through that resistor, followed by the resistor from item 1 for a total if 2 resistors, and a different resistance value. As expected, item 9 runs through all 9 resistors before exiting the steering wheel. In this way, only 1 wire need go in, and one back out again. Hope that helps.

[ACEFDD]

I was just thinking about your projects a couple days ago. So glad to see you posted!