Epoxy Surface Plate
" When Accuracy Matters "
Viper Project
Surface Plate
Installation Flush in Floor
Precision Epoxy Products
a division of :
Rock Art, Ltd.
4279 Midway Drive
Douglasville, Georgia 30134
Phone : (770) 489-0340
V I P E R
(Virginia Institute for Performance Engineering and Research) in Danville,
Virginia is a joint collaboration between Old Dominion University, Virginia
Tech, Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Virginia International
Raceway and Langley Air Force Base Wind Tunnel Group.
For additional Information visit http://www.viperservice.com
In December, 2007 we were contacted by Eric Koster, Director
of Motor Sport Operations for Old Dominion University and Langley Full Scale
Wind Tunnel. Eric is also an associate for Business Development at the Virginia
International Raceway and the Project Manager for the new VIPER Dyno Lab
being constructed in the paddock at VIR. The VIPER Dyno Lab is to
be apart of the overall Viper Facility and houses the in floor Chassis Dyno and
the Epoxy Surface Plate along with a full compliment of set-up and chassis
tuning tools and equipment. The Epoxy Surface Plate from Precision Epoxy
Products was chosen for the new facility because it is absolutely the most
accurate and low maintenance set-up plate available and was the only plate that
would suit the facilities unusual application environment.
In order not to have a raised set-up plate, the concrete
sub-strate for the shop was poured with a 1" depression at the desired
plate location. This would allow the plate to be installed flush in the shop
floor allowing for the extremely low ride height vehicles from the variety of
racing disciplines that compete at VIR to easily roll on and off the
Epoxy Surface Plate. The concrete work that we encountered at the job site was
typical and required some additional work on our part to achieve what the customer was
looking for, the cosmetic value the Epoxy Surface Plate has to offer and to meet
Rock Art's exacting standards.
The first problem arose when the concrete recessed area was
not formed properly and ended up not being the proper size. To try and
correct this, the concrete contractor saw cut one side of the recessed area to the correct size and tried to jack hammer
down the newly poured sub-strate. This idea was abandoned when the
results were less than desirable and that's when we stepped in. Among this
problem and other installation headaches that we will solve is the fact that to
install a plate flush with an existing floor is next to impossible unless the
adjoining perimeter of that existing floor is perfectly level before hand. This
is not the case with any concrete floor and was definitely not the case at the VIPER
Dyno Lab floor. You can only match up a perfectly level surface to an unlevel
surface at one point or another not the entire perimeter. See how these problems
are addressed and over come in the following Installation Procedures used at the
VIPER Dyno Lab.
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