Blog posting schedule change. I'll be posting every Saturday evening, provided that I'll have access to my computer. Now, the kit car bit. As always, not much progress visually, but I have been changing things. You'll see. A lot of things are changing in my life at the moment and I get plenty of tasks from the University. Unfortunately for me and the University, they do not have high priority in my to-do list.
II. The Changelog:
- Geometry of the top (bent) support tube (that goes from the front to the rear of the car) changed. Now, instead of two tubes butt-joined together, it's a single tube bent in a single radius, which makes thing a lot simpler and easier to manufacture. But that lead to the next point:
- Reduced width of the engine bay, which lead to the next point:
- Longer rear wishbones. I started completely from scratch with this one. Changed the geometry completely. Which, again lead to the next point:
- Redesigned rear uprights. When the width of the engine bay was reduced, the transmission protruded even further out the frame, therefore the top wishbone would have hit the transmission. So, I needed to widen it a little bit. That wasn't really possible, which meant I had to change the geometry of the upright itself.
- Redesigned rear cycle wing stays.
- Headlight conduits.
- Poly-bushes.
- A vast amount of nuts, bolts and washers added as well.
- Mountings for tail-lights.
- Boosted overall geometry of the frame (diagonal tubes in the rear and the front)
- Engine cover hinges and supports
- Front wishbones redesigned from scratch. Some of the dimensions were dodgy, thought I might as well redesign them. No significant geometrical changes.
- Removed the stripe from the nosecone. (Simplicity is the key)
III. The Images:
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