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The chassis as it was back in November, 2016.

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Looking at details with one bracket configuration and 4" of bump travel.

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I build a foam core model of various rear 4-link designs to verify motions with various configurations. The two biggest concerns were movement of the axle (rear steer) with bump and droop, plus coll

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Rear 3-quarter view of above.

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Just placement of the wheels and tires, nose section and scuttle at their design location to verify a good stance and arrangement.

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My build table. It will carry the weight of the chassis and complete driveline (with suitable cut-out made) if I choose to finalize details after all the mounts are complete.

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No world, it's NOT a kit car. This is what I started from. Just plain old USA made steel RHS and tube.

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Setting the chassis on the rotisserie.

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The tacked-up chassis moved off the build table to a home made rotisserie made from scrap metal on hand.

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Fitting all the donor driveline components (real axle out of view here) before deigning and fabricating the motor mounts and the transmission mounts. This also permitted me to finalize the triangulat

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Exploded view of the adjustable forward mounts for the (live) rear axle 4-link system.

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Starting the basic fabrication of my design on its build table.

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The engine bay was a particularly complex problem. Lots of stuff has to be accounted for including a realistic path for the steering system.

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Detailed noodling of the T5 location and required supporting chassis structure.

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Making sure there was enough leg room and coordinating the layout of pedals, etc.

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I needed to determine the position of the engine and transmission plus make sure the seating position was practical in terms of the various controls and gear shift.

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Working out the needed room and dimensions for the transmission tunnel using painter's tape.

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Since I was using a novel donor and running gear in a very small chassis, I worked out a lot of important details by building a wooden mock-up prior to finalizing my design.

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An exploded view of the above.

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Rear view of the above, showing an AN bolt fitted in from the inboard side.

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One of the forward, adjustable, trailing arm mounts I developed. The final version is simpler.

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A clearer view of the final chassis arrangement for SN95 Mustang Locost I'm now building.

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The final Alibre Design (now Geomagic Design) 3D model of my Haynes Roadster variant using an SN95, V6 Mustang as the donor.

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Front suspension details of Haynes Roadster. Sierra spindle is just a made up version as I couldn't get any engineering data on it, but needed to finish the model.

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Rear upright detail view from Haynes Roadster.

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