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Turning the odd shaped steering wheel is really awkward, so I made a suicide knob. I wanted it to match the spine/shift knob. The guts are a bunch of aluminum welding rod stumps mashed and bent together. I smushed them into a piece of 1-1/2" pipe. The red is old, gummed up paint mixed with metal shavings.  Also, it doesn't fit.
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 License plate holder.  The suicide knob installed. It helps a bunch steering the drat thing.  The arm bolted in.
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Between this thread and Holdbrooks, AI is probably my favorite forum to lurk. Goddamn that thing is loving cool.
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Jan 14, 2012 17:21
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Good luck not getting pulled over with that lice- wait, never mind, this car is already a cop magnet.
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Godholio posted:Between this thread and Holdbrooks, AI is probably my favorite forum to lurk. Goddamn that thing is loving cool. Getting mentioned in the same sentence as Holdbrooks, I'm honored.
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This is almost enough to make me wish I still lived in Gainesville.
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Blood Magnet posted:Getting mentioned in the same sentence as Holdbrooks, I'm honored. Lol, this is my favorite current thread in AI right now since you bro stopped updating the rambler wagon. If I ever find my way back to Florida we need to have a week long ultimate AI allstar build.
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 At work I found this crate under a half inch cover of dust. I asked if I could have it and the boss said sure. loving Howitzer crate. Score!  The top.  Please excuse my paint can mock-up. I'll make a metal frame soon.  I'm going to get a bunch of those cheap metal ammo boxes, cut them up and make a "pile" of them behind the wooden crate and in front of the gas tank.
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Jan 21, 2012 00:48
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I never find neat old boxes like this.
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Jan 21, 2012 01:24
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That is so awesome.
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Jan 21, 2012 02:33
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This thing is so Twisted Metal I don't even believe it really exists. Kickass.
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Jan 21, 2012 18:23
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My parents came to visit this weekend. I almost convinced my dad to drive it, but he finally said, "Let's wait until it's a little more finished." He wrecked the poo poo out of his bug in high school.
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Jan 22, 2012 20:08
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 Here is a little skull I made from a scrap of aluminum. Last night I cut and beveled all of the tube for the back seat box. I just ran out of daylight before I could weld it. I am going to skin the box with aluminum sheet and mount that little skull between the seats. I also plan to put some speakers behind the back seats.
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Jan 28, 2012 16:50
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Welding gives off light, what's the hold up?
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Jan 28, 2012 17:34
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Blood Magnet posted:
that looks pretty rad.
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Jan 28, 2012 19:01
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 Here is a supremely crappy photo of my back seat frame. I fits in there pretty nicely. I have the aluminum sheet, I just need to cut it. I also need to lower the battery box a bit. I don't quite know what to do between the top of the box and the bottom of the window frames. It looks pretty ragged.
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Jan 31, 2012 01:06
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  Aside from the shaft to the transaxle, it fits pretty well.
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Jan 31, 2012 23:59
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I wouldn't do anything with the gap below the windows until you hit upon an idea that grabs you by the nadgers. It works for now; better to do something amazing when it strikes you than do something "just because" and stop thinking about it.
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Feb 1, 2012 00:43
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Just start making everything out of wood.
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My brother got me a book about old airplane cockpits. Maybe I can get some inspiration there.
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You know, without a backseat you probably have room for a FWD V8. How about a Caddy Northstar? Or an Olds 455 from a Toronado? Or one of those siamesed Hyabusa V8s.
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Doesn't the Atom have one those Hyabusa V8s? I wonder how much I could get for my existing motor.
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Blood Magnet posted:Doesn't the Atom have one those Hyabusa V8s? I wonder how much I could get for my existing motor. I think Ariel made their own V8 for the Atom. The regular version uses a K20A Honda. [Edit] after a quick google I was wrong. It uses the John Hartley Hyabusa derived V8 http://goo.gl/g1U7P. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Feb 1, 2012 |
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Also, a V8 of any kind would tear that car a new rear end in a top hat. Maybe my next project I'll start from the ground up with a bigger motor in mind.
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MustardFacial posted:I think Ariel made their own V8 for the Atom. The regular version uses a K20A Honda. I've chatted with John in the past and he's a WI local/native. I asked him if I could do a write up / check his shop out (in a non stalker way). He didn't flat out refuse but he did say its low volume production and only interesting when there are parts to make. Looking into all that started when I came across the Palatov site and the original plans to run a V8 in that little beast.
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Blood Magnet posted:Also, a V8 of any kind would tear that car a new rear end in a top hat. Maybe my next project I'll start from the ground up with a bigger motor in mind. H6 Subaru 
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 A window frame I made a while ago. From the bomber look I was going for.   Some more progress on the box. I also made a thingie with a handle to go over the rod from the shifter to the transaxle. Also, it is pretty hard to take a photo of the interior of a small car.
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Feb 2, 2012 00:50
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 One more (with toy bullets, shh).
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Feb 2, 2012 00:52
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Some where some guy in a punk band is missing a belt.
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I think that you will have fabricated more of this car than there will be of the original left, by the time you finish. Looking at the Steering Spike (because it sure as hell isn't a wheel any more) and how low it is in relation to your gearstick, are you sure you aren't going to impale your thighs on it? The rod cover kicks rear end, though. Will the Howitzer box be going at an angle? The tidyness of it being square is clashing with the leaves in your floorpan.
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simplefish posted:I think that you will have fabricated more of this car than there will be of the original left, by the time you finish. Floorpan, ha! That is the ground, dude. I am thinking about getting a bunch of ammo boxes and bolting them down haphazardly on top of the aluminum box. I drove it a few times and the "steering wheel" doesn't really work. The suicide knob does help, though.
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Blood Magnet posted:I drove it a few times and the "steering wheel" doesn't really work. The suicide knob does help, though. have you thought about something like a flight yolk? that might work better and still fit the bomber theme too.
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Holdbrooks posted:have you thought about something like a flight yolk? that might work better and still fit the bomber theme too. A yoke out of a B52 in the aircraft bone yard in AZ would be something...
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Massive bonus points if it was a German design, like a Dornier.
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Blood Magnet posted:Also, a V8 of any kind would tear that car a new rear end in a top hat. Maybe my next project I'll start from the ground up with a bigger motor in mind. Um, you're gonna build a tube chassis and hang the body panels from it. Duh!
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 Not much progress today. I got the passenger seat mounted and finished up the panel for the top of the box. I welded nuts to the bottom of the box so I can take the top panel out so I can get to the battery. When my wife got home today I told her "Hey, I got both seats in the bug so now we can take it for a spin." I got the most sarcastic "great" in the history of man. She doesn't even try to humor me anymore about this car.
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:Um, you're gonna build a tube chassis and hang the body panels from it. Duh! My next car is going to be a Karmann Ghia. A nice one.
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You're making me want to start working on my bug again, it's my daily driver so pulling it apart for a full build might pose a problem. Also my brother just sold his 68 Cal look Ghia last month, sucks that things body was pristine.
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Ghias are nice and all but sometimes parts are a pita to find. I had one, loved it but for customization and parts it was rough sometimes. Bought a parts car for $300 because the door hinges were almost worth that. (body was spoken for because someone needed the nose due to hitting a deer. But on the plus you get a lot of looks.
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tater_salad posted:Ghias are nice and all but sometimes parts are a pita to find. I can just fabricate all of the parts I need.
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