Monday, 11 April 2011

This is the end. The Rear-end.

Been a couple of days since my last post. I know what you're thinking and no, it's not because I'm lazy. A difficult weak is ahead and I have stuff to do for the University. But the hell with it, I'm still engineering my car!

Basically what I've done since the last time: removed even more piping from the rear and added some more pipes. Wait, this doesn't make sense. Take two: the rear of the chassis was wrong, nothing really fitted properly, so, basically I had to re-engineer the whole rear box section. That was a horror show. And I don't want to do it again.

The design of the rear suspension is done, struggled there a bit as well. Made the brackets for the differential, and the dummy (long story short - a box) model, just to check if everything fits snuggly.

The worst thing is, I really need some measurements of the differential itself, height, width, etc. At the moment I'm using a picture of the differential and a scaled ruler. I just know the measurements of the mounting points, which help me to define the scale of the rest of the differential. But this is not how it should be done. So please, If you have some information on Ford Sierra's rear differential, please strike me a comment or an e-mail.

The chassis that you see in the picture is not finished yet (kinda looks like a pickup truck, doesn't it?). Still missing lots of pipes that would improve rigidity.

I should/will finish working on the rear of the space-frame chassis 'till tomorrow, if everything goes by the plan.

Thank you all in advance!

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