Since it's been over a year since posting its probably time.
Update on the VW from the field: Long story short - swapped in a 1.6d from an 84 rabbit, added a ko3 turbo off of a 1998 TDI, patched some of the holes, new brake lines and brakes among other stuff. There have been numerous other VW projects but I think its a little off topic.
Back to the locost. We left off around November 2018, mounting the control arms and steering rack. My friend Dan helped me a bunch with suspension mounting, rack width, rack mounting, cad design, etc. Here are the mounts, different positions for different Ackreman settings.
Rear arms mounted:
Based on photo dates, almost a year went by. So October of 2019 we made some motor mounts. Didnt like the motor position so those got re made and the frame got cut up some to move the motor up and back. Here's how that turned out:
Oct. 2019 still, Trans Tunnel:
In between here, I posted the crappy VW for sale, which led to selling the 1.6d motor out of it. Then it sat for a bit because no one wants an old vw from a field, let alone an old VW from a field with no motor. So I did the only sensible thing and bought another 1.6d motor, refreshed it just like the last one and this time painted it up nice. It's been sort of my car to run around town in since.
End of March 2020, started thinking about rigging up these 04 GSXR600 shocks:
Made some scuttle hoops, only one pictured didn't document this well.
Installed 2004 GSXR600 shocks up front:
Decided on some 2011-2018 GSXR600 shocks for the back.
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Decided the newer GSXR600 shocks are way nicer than the old ones, so we got another pair and re did the fronts.
May 2020, started on mounting the column:
Now some of you may have seen me post this thing for sale back in September. There was some interest in it, but mostly lots of encouraging words to finish it. I suppose for now I'm going to focus on getting the chassis finished and painted because it will likely end up sitting for a couple of years after this spring. That is unless one of y'all wants a good deal on a chassis that needs to be finished, get in touch with me!
Ill try to keep some updates coming through here though. It's made it's way back to the top of the project pile so that's good!