Building a buggy: nobggrnchvy
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Lot of small tasks, nothing major.
Engine wiring harness is in, only thing that needs to modded is the throttle body connector which I assumed since it's on the wrong side now.
Made a mount for the harness relay/fuse block even if half of the ciruits are dead/unecesary. I may unloom and depin all the extraneous **** when I tear it all down for paint...then again I might not:laughing:
Finally chucked up and turned down the 1350CVs for the 2-1/8" x 3/16" wall tube. They needs ~.020 turned off for a nice fit.
Started reassembling the front axle, it needs to go in for mockup one more time.
I had some concerns about getting any airflow through the oil cooler, so I modeled some scoops and printed them. After working out the protoype issues in PLA I did them in PETG. The center support interference isn't right and it cracked at the weakest point. I'm fixing that this morning hopefully.
Engine wiring harness is in, only thing that needs to modded is the throttle body connector which I assumed since it's on the wrong side now.
Made a mount for the harness relay/fuse block even if half of the ciruits are dead/unecesary. I may unloom and depin all the extraneous **** when I tear it all down for paint...then again I might not:laughing:
Finally chucked up and turned down the 1350CVs for the 2-1/8" x 3/16" wall tube. They needs ~.020 turned off for a nice fit.
Started reassembling the front axle, it needs to go in for mockup one more time.
I had some concerns about getting any airflow through the oil cooler, so I modeled some scoops and printed them. After working out the protoype issues in PLA I did them in PETG. The center support interference isn't right and it cracked at the weakest point. I'm fixing that this morning hopefully.
The engine relay/fuse block got mounted. put some rivnuts intot he backside so it's easily installed/removed.
Then I put the front axle back in so I could remeasure driveshafts.
A little math and I ended up with a cut length leaving me 1/2" of compression at full bump on the shortest (rear) and 3-1/2" of 1-1/2" dia spline engagement at full droop.
Tacked them up, I'll spin them on the lathe and check round before I finalize them.
Right on the money at the prescribed compressed length.
It was going really well until this.
Not snaking a driveshaft in there. Exhaust will have to be modified. To be continued.
Then I put the front axle back in so I could remeasure driveshafts.
A little math and I ended up with a cut length leaving me 1/2" of compression at full bump on the shortest (rear) and 3-1/2" of 1-1/2" dia spline engagement at full droop.
Tacked them up, I'll spin them on the lathe and check round before I finalize them.
Right on the money at the prescribed compressed length.
It was going really well until this.
Not snaking a driveshaft in there. Exhaust will have to be modified. To be continued.