I had to give my head a shake on what I was doing with the chassis. Offset the drivetrain 1″? What was I thinking? I cut out the entire transmission tunnel and seat back bulkhead, centered it, and got it mostly all back together this evening. Stupid me – I’ll just get the driver’s [...]
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Yay! Read More: The Lethal Locost I fabricated this cutter thingie so I could make a 3/4″ tube bending die. Not sure what they’re supposed to be called…. Read More: Lathe-Mounted Cove Cutter I built this simple device to notch tubes on my lathe. Easy! Read More: Lathe Mounted Tubing Notcher I’ve been working on the transmission tunnel for the Lotus 7 clone (based initially on Pat Prince drawings circa 1981). I’m using a 240SX transmission that I will be adapting to a Ford Duratec 2.0L. This isn’t your typical tubing layout. It makes sense in my head, and it’s coming together alright…. Read More: [...] The Hideous Hardbody gets Intermittent Wipers. Not an option, as far as I can tell on my ’94 4cyl, but we gots it now. Read More: Hideous Wipers Only because I couldn’t live with the straight-through Magnaflow muffler DRONE from the depths of Hades itself. Picked up a Walker SoundFX muffler (#17849) with dual 2″ outlets. Read More: Hideous Exhaust It started as merely a linen closet in the basement. Which became a walk-in linen closet. Which led to boxing in a furnace duct, truing one drywall panel, removing a wall section, removing two stub walls, relocating two light switches, removing one wall socket, removing the wainscoting, re-paneling the main house beam in the [...] Basically fixing all my mistakes in The Lethal Locost by starting over. While 99% of the population wouldn’t know a Lotus Seven when they see one, 99% of the “Locost” chassis bothers me. Read More: The Lotus Seven
In an effort to prevent the driveshaft from bottoming out in the transmission on the Hideous Hardbody, I shortened the driveshaft about an inch. While the difference in driving is subtle, it is a noticeable improvement! Read more: Hideous Driveshaft |
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