#dontcallitaSXS build

[The_Lobbster]

You could just save yourself a whole lot of trouble and buy one of these:


Aside from the CV axle thing, it meets all your criteria. Plus you'd be elevated to the rarified air of RME Samurai owner. Only the coolest kids can say that!

When he started this thread, I thought exactly this. Or use a track/kick tin top body on custom chassis.

 

[Hickey]

That’s what I’m sayin. Can’t be a sxs with a front motor.
It’s closer to a tractor. 😂

 

[Kevin B.]

You could just save yourself a whole lot of trouble and buy one of these:

Aside from the CV axle thing, it meets all your criteria. Plus you'd be elevated to the rarified air of RME Samurai owner. Only the coolest kids can say that!

That's what mere mortals like you or I would do. I suspect that at least 50% of the motivation for why he's doing it the way he's doing it is just to see if he can and I'm all for it. Weird stuff like this is awesome to me because it's the kind of harebrained crap I think up all the time, except Chance has the experience and self confidence to think he can pull it off.

I'm excited to see it come together.

 

[Stephen]

That's what mere mortals like you or I would do. I suspect that at least 50% of the motivation for why he's doing it the way he's doing it is just to see if he can and I'm all for it. Weird stuff like this is awesome to me because it's the kind of harebrained crap I think up all the time, except Chance has the experience and self confidence to think he can pull it off.

I'm excited to see it come together.

Oh yeah, when Chance was telling me about it at the RME Meet & Greet you missed, it was very impressive. The only thing that would make it more impressive is if he 3D printed the whole thing.

 

[STAG]

You could just save yourself a whole lot of trouble and buy one of these:

Aside from the CV axle thing, it meets all your criteria. Plus you'd be elevated to the rarified air of RME Samurai owner. Only the coolest kids can say that!

Nothin against Suzukis, but they just don’t do it for me.

 

[STAG]

That's what mere mortals like you or I would do. I suspect that at least 50% of the motivation for why he's doing it the way he's doing it is just to see if he can and I'm all for it. Weird stuff like this is awesome to me because it's the kind of harebrained crap I think up all the time, except Chance has the experience and self confidence to think he can pull it off.

I'm excited to see it come together.

This is as much an engineering project for me as it is a vehicle build. I am a hands-on learner and I get my kicks off problem solving and ingenuity.

I never went to college but I consider it to be akin to a senior project for mechanical engineering, at the school of YouTube University.

 

[STAG]

Oh yeah, when Chance was telling me about it at the RME Meet & Greet you missed, it was very impressive. The only thing that would make it more impressive is if he 3D printed the whole thing.

3D printing will be used widely for R&D and prototyping etc but I don’t expect to really have hardly any finished parts at the end of the build that were printed.

 

[DAA]

I kinda don't care how it turns out. I think it's just cool watching it happen.

- DAA

 

[Coco]

I am excited to see the progress, no matter how it identifies!

 

[Pile of parts]

I never went to college but I consider it to be akin to a senior project for mechanical engineering, at the school of YouTube University.

We all pay for our education one way or another. I too, am watching this one and excited to see how it turns out. We all have ideas, but only some of us have the courage to take them to the next step.

 

[STAG]

Oh yeah, when Chance was telling me about it at the RME Meet & Greet you missed, it was very impressive. The only thing that would make it more impressive is if he 3D printed the whole thing.

This guy is 3D printing a “hardtop” for his mx5

 

[Stephen]

This guy is 3D printing a “hardtop” for his mx5
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There used to be a company that made fiberglass fastback tops like that for Miata's. Super cool.

 

[STAG]

I figured this could come in handy later when it’s time to make the engine run! I spent 5 minutes glancing through it and it’s very thorough and the wiring diagrams and vacuum schematics and stuff are very detailed.

 

[STAG]

Those are sxs seats. I don’t know if I can trust this build or not.

If you really needed another reason for trust issues, the differentials came today.

Rough locations






Electric locking diffs. They spin in the correct directions for me in these orientations.

How the diff lock works.

I will grab my bathroom scale to see what they weigh but they aren’t super heavy.

Gear ratio is 3.6:1 which yeah is a little tall but the portals will help.

 

[STAG]

The mock-up wheels I bought are 5 lug on 5” pattern.

I plan to run 4-lug for the final iteration, so I couldn’t use my 4-lug hubs I have in order to attach to my wheels. I want to work on getting this to be a roller, so I’ll need to get the wheels mounted to the chassis and rollable.

I didn’t want to buy 5-lug hubs for this because they would only be temporary, and I didn’t want to make 4-lug to 5-lug adapters because then the extra width of those would have to be compensated into the design and then subtracted out later.

So instead I modeled 5-lug dummy spindle hubs and printed them out. These are the same width from Wheel-Mounting-Surface to where the hub will meet the spindle, as the 4-lug hubs I’m going to be using (1 7/8”) so these can be used as an exact substitute for the 4-lug hubs during mock-up, until I get my 4-lug wheels.

Anyways, to the hubs.

Modeled and printed some castle nuts. It’s a 28mm thread diameter (real close to 1 1/8”)

Spindle

All parts (Amazon lug studs)

Some grease on the rolling surfaces.


Assembled

And installed with lug nuts taken off the Accord

 

[Coco]

This is screaming for some 37" Maxxis tires.... I know of some available...

 

[STAG]

I got the locker electrical system figured out tonight 👍🏽

 

[STAG]

This is screaming for some 37" Maxxis tires.... I know of some available...

Too soft for a vehicle that will see asphalt now and then. I’ve already drooled over them until you said they were stickies.

 

[Coco]

I drive mine on the road around town and in Moab and Sand Hollow. Just not long periods or anything like that.

 

[Gravy]

Portals or not: the idea of 37"s and a differential pinion shaft the size of a steering box input stresses me out.
It's smaller than a South American dog lipstick.