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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.
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.
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!
Been a wild ride, but it got me here 😎
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.
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.
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.
Glad to see this build moving again. Thanks for the pics Franz. This thing is going to be incredible!
This one’s gonna be fun!!!
Couple from yesterday
We will build it if it comes.
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.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
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.
Awesome progress guys! Glad this is moving along.. I like all your engine mount idea’s.
Been a wild ride, but it got me here 😎
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