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Old 06-23-2012, 12:20 PM
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Back to the motor mount. Because of the rather heavy electric motor's sudden, and relentless, torque I wanted to slot the crossmember into the frame rails, rather than it just being welded between them. The girl on the team was the only one that didn't flinch when I described it, and went right after it.



Steel plates all cut and ground close, ready to be hammered to fit the motor, finished up, and assembled.



The thing I am most proud of with this, is most of the people on my team have never done metal fabrication before, and have never even worked on a serious car project. We are purposely whittling this car of raw steel, by hand, as much as possible, so that they will be able to say "we did that!"
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