My next trip to the states was between school semesters and I had 3 weeks of playtime. My wife was not with me on this trip and I made no plans to visit with anybody, accept the nieces and nephews of course. This trip was all business. My goal was to have the car sitting on it's own wheels by the time I left. This meant building a full chassis, installing it, suspension, engine/trans, etc, all while overcoming a bajillion obstacles that I had no idea were coming. To alleviate the suspense, I didn't make my goal. I could have but I chose not to rush it and left the car on the table for the next trip; smartest decision ever!
So coming back it was time to build the chassis. I had spent almost a year of a few hours here, couple minutes there, designing it in google sketch-up (not exactly a great CAD program but it's free and you get what you pay for). So from that I started cutting 2x4 steel...
and welding rails...
and assembling a chassis...
the first iteration of my front rails failed as I forgot some basic 7th grade geometry about splitting angles between two tubes, it takes two 12* cuts to get 24*, not two 24*. So this is the chassis with more to come, and being taken away.
A sampling of some of the over-build parts for the suspension, spohn del-spere pivots joints and howe ball joints. 6 more Howe ball joints will be in route next month.
The beginnings of the back brace.
beginnings of the rear suspension drop-out.
And here is where I could have stopped since technically it's a roller.
