Re: More three wheeler stuff

["steve spence" <sspence@webconx.com>]

new vw front ends are widely available and cheap. not as great handling as
the super beetle, but simple to implement.

http://www.hotvws.com/ has ads full of suspension components.


Steve Spence
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Brooks" <rbrooks@micrelinc.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: More three wheeler stuff


> 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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