Dans ‘65 Tesla

[Franz]

#61738

Brembo 4 pistons monoblock calipers arrived this morning. From a Porsche Boxster. We’ll be assembling a veedub engineering brake kit.

The factory powder coating clean up nicely.

[Franz]

#61753

Getting the chassis and suspension parts ready for mock-up. To fit brakes/wheels/fenders perfectly. Then we have to figure out how to stack the batteries and protect them.

[John Jones]

#61782

HELL’s yeah!  I love seeing this one move forward!  Pan dolly is ready for ya!!!!  That will be nice to mock it up on!

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[Franz]

#61893

I bought some fancy directional slotted + drilled rotors from Brakenetics for this. The brake are huge! The should barely fit in the 16” wheels(I hope!)…it’s going to need them. I hear these electric cars are fast as hell. 120mph+++ doing burnouts the whole way.

[Franz]

#62640

Starting mock-up. Rear suspension and Porsche boxster Brembo brakes. Sway-a-way 30mm torsion bars to deal with the weight of the batteries.

The EV West Tesla conversion mount hangs kinda low.

7” Wheels fit nice with 1 3/4” spring plate clearance.

930 Porsche cv stub axles from Empi. Brake conversion parts from vDub Engineering.

Forged steel Porsche 944 hubs are sure to withstand some abuse.

Heavy duty torsion cover with original hardware. Profiled control arm/spring plate mount for tire clearance.

I’ll probably gusset the arms with the Empi box kit eventually.

[Franz]

#62655

It looks like I need to cut the engine bay out. 4”  from touching the pan at the rear.

Front steering carriers cleaned up and assembled with dropped spindles. 944 hubs  and big vented boxster rotors.

 

[Vwfool]

#62657

This will he a crazy build

[JWDII]

#62658

Glad to see this build moving again. Thanks for the pics Franz. This thing is going to be incredible!

[Pat K]

#62667

This one’s gonna be fun!!!

Couple from yesterday

We will build it if it comes.

[Franz]

#62678

Engine bay cut out suits the lines of the Tesla drive unit.

Stock beam under it now. It looks like it could use a 2” narrowed. Empi has the nice needle bearing beam we should get.

It has some camber designed into the rear suspension. Some guys like the race car look style. We can correct this by modifying the control arms. Let me know.

[JWDII]

#62690

Beautiful!!

[THC4ME]

#62694

This thing is so cool. With the tesla  motor installed, the chassis looks like a scaled up 80’s Tamiya. I tried to find a google search a classic Tamiya that used a torsion/swing arm rear set up.  To my surprise, I could find none. All Tamiya models with rear torsions that I found used  traditional lower control arms (i.e sand scorcher and much rarer “fighting buggy”)

Sorry for the geeky digression

[Franz]

#62774

I didn’t like the EV West drive unit mount because it hangs so low, it’s sure to drag on the ground. I think building a tube subframe that goes over the top of the drive unit and connects down to the frame horns and torsion housing is a better idea…..It will also support the package shelf behind the rear seat where we plan to mount a bunch of batteries

Heater tube from the engine cut out, no use. Pan spaced and bolted down. Ready for fab.

I have also ordered an Empi 2” narrowed beam and designed drop plates for the rear suspension to fix the camber.

[John Jones]

#62832

Awesome progress guys!  Glad this is moving along..  I like all your engine mount idea’s.

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[Willy]

#62854

Its really fun watching all the extra engineering going into this one

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