Any estimates on what your power output and final weight of the car is going to be?

this is a badass car

Thanks guys. Looks like all the Swedes are coming out of the woodwork.

Thanks! Neither my brother nor I are huge fans of the numbers game, but looking at similar builds, it should fall somewhere around 2500lbs wet and 650whp.

yes thats håkans car, Ive been helping him out fabricate wheel tubs and some other metalwork like alu fuelcell etc. its a really badass car and runs like a champ both on the streets or the racetrack!

antar att du är janne suhr? isf har jag varit o druckit kaffe hemma hos dig med henka blyfot ;)
/simon

Yepp, the one and only :unibrow: Världen är liten.

Nu bor jag närmare Norrköping, i Stigtomta utanför Nyköping.


Janne

Nice project.HotRod mag. should love this thing. Keep us posted on this kick a## build. Scott.

Thanks Scott.

Updates are still slow. Juggling projects and school is taking a lot of time. Made a tentative start on the next little side project today. This is a scale 1:2 foam mockup/prototype, but you get the idea:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00173.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00174.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00175.JPG

Since the small CNC in the shop doesn't have a tool changer (and I can't be bothered to re-zero the thing every time I swap tools :P ) it doesn't have any of the mounting holes, fillets, or chamfers. It was just as well, since I have to change some of the dimensions and setups now anyway.

This is the cad model in its current state, and should be pretty representative of the final product:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...agerarsida.jpg

damn, that is sweet

That's the fugliest car I've ever seen....I love it! So,you guys are 22 and you're turning out work like this? I'm curious-where did you learn how to do this fabrication stuff?
I'm 55 years old and have wanted to build cars my whole life. I'm just getting started now and,I gotta tell you,it's a pretty steep learning curve. I'm building a rectangular tube frame 1st gen Nova and I have to research every step. It's taking me forever,I'm afraid I'll be dead before the car ever turns a tire. Where did you guys learn to do this stuff?
The car looks great...well...relatively speaking-keep up the great work.:thumbsup:

Swift, thank you.

First of all, thank you for the kind words. I'll take your fugly comment as a compliment. :lol:

I can tell you that neither of us have had any kind of schooling in any of these subjects, so for the most part I'd say we're self taught. We definitely inherited a strong penchant for DIY from our dad, but his interest in cars is fairly fleeting. I think the main driving force, for me at least, has been that every time I see something cool or interesting that I would like to have or try, I think to myself "what does the guy who made that know that I either don't or can't figure out?". And the answer is always nothing.

It's great to hear that you're getting your hands dirty. The learning curve is definitely steep. It still is for me. I have a personal motto that keeps me on track for stuff like this: "You have to be dumb enough to start and stubborn enough to finish." :thumbsup:

In the end, just remember (to use a somewhat trite expression), it's not the destination that matters. All the fun is in the journey. As long as you're having fun building your Nova, everything else is secondary.

Anyway, enough of my philosophical raving. People come to expect pics in threads like this, and I aim to deliver.

Had some down-time before I could start re-drilling the flywheel for the VW (another project of ours, '72 Beetle with 911 suspension, fiberglass fenders, whaletail, cage, and with a soon-to-be Volvo 850 powerplant swap), so I made the cross braces for the calipers. Since the part couldn't just be clamped, I drilled and countersunk the mounting holes in one setup and then mounted it to a jig plate in a second setup.

Facing the plate (because machine tool marks look bad-ass):
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00177.JPG

Initial result (sans deburring):
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00178.JPG

We decided to chamfer the inside edges as well, so back in the CNC it went:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7EUAij74Ycw/Sv...0/DSC00179.JPG

These will get anodized along with the caliper bodies.

Amazing work to say the least. And a very cool project. I have to ask though, why fab your own brake calipers? If the answer is "just because we can" then that is good enough for sure. But is there not a ready made unit that will work for you?
I do appreciate the "because we can" very much. Lot's of respect for you guys doing all of the work yourselves!:cheers: