Re: More three wheeler stuff

["Robert Brooks" <rbrooks@micrelinc.com>]

Micheal;
> >         If I were building such a car, I would pick stainless steel.
> >Kind of like a Mini-Delorean. The vehicle has mostly simple curves
> >in otherwise flat plates. It would look ultra cool in brush finish
> >stainless steel. Of course, it would be even easier out of mild
> >steel.
>
> Yeah, but it would weigh a couple hundred pounds more. Besides, mild
> steel would rust unless it was constantly polished. I can just see
> myself polishing the car every weekend! Still it would look sweet in
> brushed metal. The original Tr-Magnum was done in a silver metal look
> over the composite.
>
Clear coat it after it's posished.


Snip

> >         Have you considered using the front of some existing car,
> >and them merely modifying the back?
>
> Yeah, but I decided to go the masochistic route and build the whole
> body. The interior of the front end is gonna come from some wrecked
> vehicle (probably a VW Beetle), and possibly most of the rear
> suspension as well, if I can manage it.


You may want to think about using a different front end than the beetle.

The car has not been produced it quite a while, and even though there are
lots of parts available, they tend to be specials.

You might want to look at the front end designs being used by the Street Rod
and Kit car vendors.  Most of these are fairly simple and easy to mount.
They tend to be based off early Pinto designs, but work very well in Mega V8
applications.

Depending on the vendors you can get different suspension styles, some use
springs and shocks, some use coil overs and others use airbags or torsion
bars for the active suspention components.


Then a tubular frame
> connecting the two with a sheet steel plate for the primary
> floorboard for strength. Fiberglass/urathane composite encompassing
> the roll cage all in one, for rigidity and strength.
Build the roll cage into the composite structure you are going to build the
body out of.  This will increase the strength and maximize the interior
dimensions.

6 27TMHs in
> front of the two wheels, two on each side in the door wells under the
> gull wings. Hatch in rear to access trunk space and motor, controller
> and DC/DC. There will also be an AC compressor and small DC motor for
> it, probably in front somewhere. I still also need to figure out
> where to put a front hatch to reach the batteries and such, but that
> will have to wait 'til I know more precisely where they're going.
> --
>

Bob
rbrooks@micrelinc.com


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