Whoah its been a while! sorry about that. I’ve had some distractions keeping me from really going after Louis like I would want. I’ll have more on that later. Here are some pics of basically where it stands today. I cut the flow out to make room for the new chassis. I’ve designed all the body mounts and crossmembers so they will go in next.
Ok, here they are! My Dad and brothers were nice enough to setup the chassis with the suspension arms and take some pictures for me. It’s actually starting to look like something! nice. haha. We got some Gibbs oil and rubbed it down with that to keep it from rusting. I need to make some temporary coilover braces to keep the arms from sagging.
Well, that does it. I’m back to school and 1,500 miles away from Louis. I came really close to reaching my goal for the end of summer so I feel pretty good about it. The chassis is 95% welded with only a few more hours to finish up the back. The lower control arms are completely done, etch primed and fitted with ball joints and machined delrin bushings. So now the chassis can be flipped over set on the ground and upper control arm bolted on and the uprights and hubs assembled and wheels bolted on. Easy. Hopefully my sweet brothers can take care of that and send me some pictures. I’m definitantly pleased with the outcome so far.
My brother came home from AMS performance as their fabricator and welded up my control arms. They look awesome! I need to make a coil bracket and they’ll be done. I ordered some delrin and stainless bar for the bushings too.
This completes the major components of the chassis. yippie! It’s taken about 2 months longer than I planned but I couldn’t ask for a better outcome. Everything fits perfect and should weld real nice. The back frame section looks more square and boxy than the rest of the frame but I wanted sharp corners to optimize the fuel cell space, plus this was easier. Also I incorporated a trail hitch in the frame.
Next is finishing the rear lower control arm design cutting all those parts and welding the front and rear lca’s. I still need to make the rear upper control bracket and then we’ll have a roller. I can’t wait to get it off the table and on the ground. I want to get the floor cut out and the rockers and pillars laser scanned so I can design the body mounts, seat mounts and roll cage before I go back to school in september.
