Arya Ebrahimi Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I can't believe you didn't post pictures of your $500 throttle pedal and bracket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I can't believe you didn't post pictures of your $500 throttle pedal and bracket! Ugh $$ .. wow! The car is taking a new tougher look! Great roll bar work! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Ugh $$ .. wow! The car is taking a new tougher look! Great roll bar work! Rob He's yanking my chain... $500 refers to how much time I spent building the damn thing :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHKflyer52 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Well, it's been a long time. Finally, Arya and I were able to converge on the car. He did most of the work, and I did most of the nodding. We got alot done. We started working Friday night, and will put in a few more hours tomorrow. Here are some pics: Say hello to the new trunk http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/160846235_Rotus 012 (Small).jpg Many more things to do, but it's past 3AM and I'm beat... Mazda and Arya, Looks like Franklin7 is going to be a lot more structural and stronger when you are finished working on it. Nice work and how are you bending all of your tubing, what type of bender do you or is Arya just muscling them. Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Mazda and Arya, Looks like Franklin7 is going to be a lot more structural and stronger when you are finished working on it. Nice work and how are you bending all of your tubing, what type of bender do you or is Arya just muscling them. Very nice. Hi Martin, Arya's bender is from http://www.jd2.com/ As you can see, he does some really nice bends - with no redo's. Every bend came out perfectly. Yes, In the past my focus was to add power and make the car fun. This year's mods focus purely on the chassis. We are making it significantly safer with a real roll bar with proper bracing, and although I can't prove it, I think our modifications will also add significant stiffness due to what we are doing to the center tunnel. Before, the tunnel did not tie to the rest of the car very well... We have also lengthened the passenger compartment so taller people can ride/drive, and moved the engine / tranny back in the chassis for better weight distribution, and up into the chassis to get rid of the exposed oil pan to allow the car to be lowered alot more. In the process we have destroyed half the chassis :crazy: . A running joke between Arya and I is "Wow, we got alot done today. The chassis is even less complete" :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Ebrahimi Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 You're not kidding, we really need to stop cutting stuff off and start putting things back together. :ack: This is how we left the car this weekend. http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1813793111_Rotus backhalf 005.jpg That was after Mazda went a little nuts with the sawzall http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/626641640_Rotus backhalf 001.jpg These are the tubes that we ended up reworking/replacing(in red) http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1740956986_Rotus backhalf 003.jpg And this pile of tube is the culmination of two days of work http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1988596526_Rotus backhalf 012.jpg All in all, it was a productive weekend, but I really wanna stop cutting more things off the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHKflyer52 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Arya, Take the sawzall away from Mazda and hide it so you can finish putting Franklin 7 back together or due you have a chop shop going on the side that Mazda dose not know about...... ......:jester: Keep up the building and I know everyone enjoys seeing what the two of you are doing.:thumbs: :yesnod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Arya .. I would like to order a new "trunk" for my Rotus with a tow receiver .. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Arya .. I would like to order a new "trunk" for my Rotus with a tow receiver .. Rob We have a plan for that :yesnod: the hitch "assembly" will be a bolt on to the two bottom tubes that form the floor of the trunk. When finished, I will issue a challenge to Busa for a tractor pull :jester: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 the hitch "assembly" will be a bolt on to the two bottom tubes that form the floor of the trunk. Cool! :thumbs: Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Arya, Take the sawzall away from Mazda and hide it so you can finish putting Franklin 7 back together or due you have a chop shop going on the side that Mazda dose not know about...... ......:jester: Keep up the building and I know everyone enjoys seeing what the two of you are doing.:thumbs: :yesnod: The problem is that Arya has a fine selection of cutting tools :lol: His portable band saw is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Ebrahimi Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Arya .. I would like to order a new "trunk" for my Rotus with a tow receiver .. Rob [Dr Evil] That will be one MILLION dollars[/Dr Evil] In all seriousness though, I could probably do another, but I'd need your car and I probably wouldn't have time until the end of this year/beginning of next. Dunno if you were serious or not, but figured I'd throw it out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 [Dr Evil] That will be one MILLION dollars[/Dr Evil] In all seriousness though, I could probably do another, but I'd need your car and I probably wouldn't have time until the end of this year/beginning of next. Dunno if you were serious or not, but figured I'd throw it out there. You're MINE! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I wish to speak ot Arya .. not Dr. Evil! (half way serious) Dunno if you were serious or not, but figured I'd throw it out there. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 I wish to speak ot Arya .. not Dr. Evil! (half way serious) Rob I was only tenth of the way serious. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Ebrahimi Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Rob, shoot me a PM if you'd like to talk seriously, seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Rob, shoot me a PM if you'd like to talk seriously, seriously Only 1/4 serious right now .. BTW: Save the "Custer Toyota" aluminum sticker .. that's a historical memento! (Chris Custer, the developer of the Rotus, was the great grand nephew of George Custer) Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Ebrahimi Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Only 1/4 serious right now .. BTW: Save the "Custer Toyota" aluminum sticker .. that's a historical memento! (Chris Custer, the developer of the Rotus, was the great grand nephew of George Custer) Rob :rofl: Mazda and I were joking about sending you the whole trunk so you could have that sticker :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 :rofl: Mazda and I were joking about sending you the whole trunk so you could have that sticker :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Mazda and I were joking about sending you the whole trunk so you could have that sticker My Custer sticker must be preserved when we paint my car! It's a feature of pride .. kinda like Mr. Pirate's car! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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