RS Blog 23 - More Shiny Stuff Arrived
Always a good day when racecar parts arrive and allow you to sit in the car finally making vroom vroom noises! The Tillett seat is great.
RS Blog 22 - Wires and more
Blue shell of wiring hit me…. Adventure of limitless options to configure the chassis and engine electron controls.
RS Blog 21 - Plumbing, Electrons and Speed Sensors
Just waiting for my mind to be destroyed by the looming wiring job. For now enjoying little successes. Running big cables and hoses.
RS Blog 20 - Brake Pedal!
Brakes only slow you down!
Let’s make them stop ya better. Improving design.
RS Blog 19 - Suspension Geometry, Weights and Foot Defense Devices
Sharpie mounted suspension & miles of wires to start sorting out. The suspension lift kit eats up a bit of travel, making me want to understand the geometry.
RS Blog 18 - Sensors, Fitments and ECU Mounting
Pondering part placements, drilling holes in chassis, investigating various factory parts to find improvements. Overall some solid satisfying progress.
RS Blog 17 - Holy Haltech Batman!
Wiring fun. Reinventing the entire chassis and engine harness to fit the project goals. Quite tedious, but worth it for final product… I assume I won’t go insane.
RS Blog 16 - Little More Fitting Before Wiring
Attaching hardware and sorting out things. Keeping the incremental progress going. Big items, radiator mounted, header mocked up, hubs and rotors investigated for wheel speed sensors.
RS Blog 15 - Butt Holders and Foot Levers
Buckets and Pedals. The path to a cozy home of speed. Carbon fiber makes everything nicer…. or maybe that is lighter. Either way I’ve been working on stuff inside the cockpit.
RS Blog 14 - Plumbing for Electrons and Liquids
Wiring, plumbing and luggage pods. Stage of build that is starting to get into many mocked up parts. Exciting time.
RS Blog 13 - Making Panel Sandwiches and Some Sides
Making sure those on the inside are nice and cozy. Well as cozy as can be expected within this car. Cozy like Eliana in her bag sandwich
RS Blog 12 - Panel Insulation
Insulation in a racecar??? Blasphemy or something like that. It is a streetcar people and I will be driving to the track and want to not go crazy.
RS Blog 11 - Working Through Interior Panels
Almost to the finish line on panels. Should be no more drilling or fitting. Only removal of tape then insert rivets.
RS Blog 10 - Fuel Cells
Safety first when it comes to fuel. Upgraded with Fuel Safe.
RS Blog 9 - Fitting the First Hardware
Putting in some hardware and mocking up new brake pedal to improve pedal ratios. We shall see how this works out, so far it is promising.
From 3.3 to 4.5 (goal of 5.0)
RS Blog 8 - Finishing Floor and Flipping
Small progress on floor pan and getting ready for last of the riveting.
RS Blog 7 - Finally Attached Panels to Ultima
Sealing the panels and affixing them to the chassis for the rest of their days. Very happy with the final fitment and accuracy of rivets.
RS Blog 6 - Some Rivets then Full Turtle
Yep more drilling panels and measuring stuff twice before cutting once. But big news the chassis is in a new position!!!
RS Blog 5 - Rivets and Drilling Holes
Making those panels fit perfectly. I do enjoy the methodic nature of this work, but am eager to get into some other stuff like suspension and wiring. Things with more margin for error…
RS Blog 4 - Fitting Cockpit Panels
Making those first cuts and fitments. The start of a long slow road of measure twice, think about it, measure again, think about it and finally cut a little. Eventually I’ll get comfortable.
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