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I still want to see real metal. When will that happen?
 
braxton357 said:
I would plan for at least .003-.005 which is only on the radius. If you have that piece hard coat anodized like you should thats another .003. Hopefully you not drawing any of this chassis that tight.
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It's drawn tight. It's pretty tight on the tubing right now like Rob was saying. There is a 0.035 gap between the tube, and the armor. I'm actually looking into it being a jig fixture at the moment. I'm thinking draw it to bolt on the chassis table, or draw the chassis table to bolt to it. Vice, Versa. I think I can just bolt it to the fixture table and use it as mock up when I bend the center belly rails.
 
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MetalCraftSolved said:
Oh, we did a test run on some metal with the lower control arm a while back. Everything checked out. The digital model is good.
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So are you planning to build this on your own dime. Or try to find someone to front the cost?
 
Upper control arm. There's a lot of people's work I've been around influenced into it. I might would call it "what I've learned" few more details, and it's there.

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Billet belly rail clamps. Ordering 4 sets cuts the price in half. First time I've noticed those tubes aren't flat with the earth.

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Digging into the bulkhead fixture. I'll end up making everything interlock & bolt together symmetrically so nothing's mirrored. So the fixture pieces can do the same job on either side, and cuts the cost to machine.

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Further with the chassis.
Inch & three quarter chromoly tubing.
Legend:
Red = .188 wall
Blue = .120 wall
Cyan = .090 wall
Pink = .063 wall
The lacing around the engine won't be symmetrical with the lacing on the driver side. I've mapped the driver side though. l may end up having to stuff the tire at lock, and lace around the engine hands on. You can see a major tubing change between the colored pictures, and that one picture on the jig.

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Absolutely insane amount of work into this upper control arm, but I think it's done. I would never be able to create something like this by hand. Motobilt technology opening up doors for some speed. The hard work is done. Unbelievable.

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Now that you have you design complete... and posted... I hope there's no intention of parent protection.
 
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