Those are sweet!

Guys,
It seems that Tyler has made my selections for me without prior notification.
Not sure why Tyler (hell I don't even know him) posted this but they definitely are sick. The wheels have not been chosen and Im far from making that selection. Im all up for having a little fun but I would like this thread to be more professional and ACCURATE, so lets keep it that way. I ran into Tyler at Columbus to give him a new shade of hair color for doing this. But if some of you know him, its his way of making the sale. Again good intentions, no need to thrash on Tyler I have that under control (I think).
No doubt the wheels are cool and the concept would be killer. So maybe he did make a future sale, will see. When I finally make a wheel selection it will be mounted on the car prior to photos in lieu of you guys asking if those HRE's are mounted yet.

I hate to see a thread posted ttt without real progress to view. I just needed to clear this up.

My gawd thats nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave is good humored at least. These are the wheels I feel would be the only logical choice for a build of this caliber.
I did post these as kind of an inside joke between Dave, Rodger and myself. Only Dave wasn't in on it.

Tyler

dave nice build everything looks great keep the out of the box creativity coming! and roger don't stop what your doing it's working well you have inspired me a great deal thanks for that.:D

....Might be more like it Taylor.


Lol!

Lead.

I love the idea of Carbon Hoops. However they scare the heck out of me. Here is what I did to a set of Carbon FIber Mountain Bike Cranks while i was climbing up a hill.

There used to be chain rings attached to those tabs. I sheared the ring off the crank and yes my knee hurt like a SOB when it hit the stem.

That's not carbon fiber's fault; it looks like poor design to me. It looks like they milled a critical mounting surface down to almost nothing. Beside losing critical mass, you would also be milling away a layer or so of fibers which ideally would be oriented to add structural integrity. Considering the possible legal implications, I would bet on the wheels to be properly designed. HRE isn't receiving shipments from the Far East are they? :_paranoid

Yeah, not remotely the same idea, or type of material. HRE uses a forged aluminum center with a carbon hoop. The center isn't going to fail, and the CF hoops are stronger than steel. If it does get impact damage they are toast though.

And no, HRE does not make their stuff in China.

Tyler

here is there reply

Sorry to hear about the trouble with your cranks and we hope the damage to yourself is healing well. We will get you a new set of Next arms under warranty coverage. As we talked about on the phone today you can have your new shop contact me and I will set up the warranty claim with them. This kind of tab failure is not something we expect to see, although we have made some changes in the carbon lay-up to strengthen the chaintabs further. The new Next cranks will serve you well. Thanks for riding RaceFace.

:rolleyes: :mad: Wow.

Where are the updates?:willy:

Well Let me see what I can come up with we were building the rear bumper today.

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I have some angle iron just like that -- ya shoulda called.
:D






Nice - as usual! :thumbsup:

So that starts out as a piece of aluminum angle & contoured by the die ?

It starts out as a roughly shaped STEEL piece that is ran through the machine to form the desired shape. The die was designed in Solidworks and water jet cut from 1" steel. We then shape the dies to form the desired contour. It has 3 bend radius's in the piece, we the set up each half to give it just tiny peak in the middle to go with the stock peak in the tail panel. Just a teeny tiny peak.

You can see where we marked the peak in the middle.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2009005.jpg

Here it is mocked up on the car.
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Rodger it look's real good.You should take a break, if you keep thinking up more cool way's to build car's your brain is going to explode.:thumbsup:Ps is this car going to be in the death race II movie.

It's not the building cars that will make my head explode. It is all the other crap that it takes to get to the point you can build cars. You have not even seen the half of it, This car will be SUPER insane crazy someday.

Sorry no death race appearance that I know of. Maybe. We are getting close to building the interior body structure and removing those things very soon.

I can not wait to see more on this car.

Must be hot out in Bako? Looks like the poor kid in the pic has a wet towl around his neck. Get some A/C ! GEEEZZZ ! :rofl:

I'd work for free - have wet towel - will travel... :D

making the kid work on a rack while standing on round pipes , well i see a workmans comp claim soon ! slave driver

I would kill to have tools like that!:bow: Now give us some better pics of the bumper! LOL!!

Well Thanks "Mister Safety". If you noticed the tubing is captured in the bottom of the chassis table, I'm sure you would have noticed that before one of your last accidents, Now with the metal plate in your head your unable to see metal bigger then the plate in your head, Kind crazy how that works but with as many impacts as you have had, I'm amazed you have a head let alone it kind works. I mean shoot what's a big canyon on the side of your head going to do accept scare little kids and old cougars away. :D :D

Just let me know your no longer on Vacation from Vacation. You can start on your next project.

Roger, did you finalise how the front upper shock mount will go? How is it going to clear with the solid crossbar for the upper arm? The amount of work on this car is staggering!

No we have not. We are working to get the outside shape fully defined before we try to build a cage that fits perfectly.

Looking forward to more updates. The amount and "special" work into the car looks great. Good work Rodger and crew.:thumbsup:

SO.
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These pics are cool

Holy sh*t. Mother of pearl. That is wicked.

I wonder if my laptop gets wireless in the bathroom....

Tyler

Looks Good Rodger..Very nice

LOL, that aint right! :lol:

Just cover the middle section with lexan! :thumbsup:

That does look killer Rodger. Awesome.:thumbsup:

Metal, meet thy master.

Looks alright I guess. Dam Rodger, what size rear tire you running on that?
I know Dave is short and all but that is low. At least he'll be able to wash the roof.:thumbsup:

I think were two inches lower than the ZO6 I had.
LOL Jason, The problem is the only time I see you is when Im standing next to Rodger. Its all about the abs and biceps anyway, height at the bottom of the list :lol:

The car looks awesome! Beautiful work.

damn! thats just crazy looking!!!
thats really slick where you guys ran the rear down bars;)
would that even be possible on a normal body?

:brix:

I got to see this car a couple of days ago....WOW!!!! Pictures are great but when you get to see it in person it puts a whole new perspective on "OMG"!

John