Hackster's Autocross Track Day Truck (Garage Build)

[rustomatic]

Okay, so it's like this:

Horsepower unit: Check.

Springy stuff: Check.

Wires and bolts for above-mentioned contraptions: Check.

Tires: Check.

Gas-moving device: Check (I think).

Shifter: May still require like three bolts or so. (Check soon.)

Seat: There's one somewhere.

We know you do good work, and the thing will be perfecto when done, but USCA does not require perfecto (the last and next iterations of my death trap were and will be evidence). We know it will happen soon enough. A place for the cheeks, bolted down, a couple pedal thingys, and a tiller, and you're good for the weekend.

[hackster]

Originally Posted by rustomatic

Okay, so it's like this:

Horsepower unit: Check.

Springy stuff: Check.

Wires and bolts for above-mentioned contraptions: Check.

Tires: Check.

Gas-moving device: Check (I think).

Shifter: May still require like three bolts or so. (Check soon.)

Seat: There's one somewhere.

We know you do good work, and the thing will be perfecto when done, but USCA does not require perfecto (the last and next iterations of my death trap were and will be evidence). We know it will happen soon enough. A place for the cheeks, bolted down, a couple pedal thingys, and a tiller, and you're good for the weekend.

I absolutely love your enthusiasm my friend and cannot wait to meet you in a few weeks.

I agree, I will get it done, really hope its at least close. I already know that there is going to be a wheel change and some other stuff but I am close.

I appreciate your words of encouragement.

Seat Tracks from mustangs unlimited showed up today along with the hardware to bolt the seats to the tracks and the tracks to the brackets. Its a lot of crap to order all this stuff from scratch.

Got the seats out, bolted the rails to the seats and figured out the latching mechanism. Amazingly enough my hacked together seat brackets from a set of downloaded drawings on the internet bolted right to the truck and the seats bolted right to the brackets.

I had to get these bolted in and see how they fit in the truck.



Look great in there, sit at the right height, arm to window is great as well.



Also managed to spend a few minutes on the seatbelts and got them mocked up in there. They fit great....the cable end near the console might need to be a touch longer but they look great.



The silver looked terrible on these so I painted them black. I am not really sold on the black but it looks a hell of a lot better than the silver did. They go great with the stuff on the firewall. Need to pickup some washers for the hood bolts and I can get the hood bolted down.





I really hope that the weather stays dry and I can get a few road miles on it this weekend.

Sean