To avoid nasty surprises we built up the drive train with dummy parts. Although we used dummy parts all specs are the same as the original ones.
Some say : R-Box installed a cup holder or a cookie jar on the tunnel.
But : On top of the Sadev gearbox are a gear lever, powershift sensor and an air release valve. All this is very close ti the tunnel so we needed to make room to install all these parts.
For this reason we installed an extra “box” on top of the tunnel. We also provided a little more room for the gear lever which resulted in the final design.
We made some mods to fix the dif to the 2 rear struts.
The trunk bottom plate has been reinforced and a stiff 3 way connection was made between the 2 rear struts.
Because of the tropical temperatures we were able to paint and dry the suspension parts in the sun.
Since all these parts are at the bottom of the car (not visible) we choose to paint them ourselves.
We used an epoxy primer with a DTM epoxy black paint.
Before we could start painting the suspension parts we needed to mount “more stiff” silentblocks. We replaced the rubber ones by ST52.3 steel ones.
Because it is whisfull that the suspension never takes a short cut other then the rest of the car we invited our specialist Carl to weld everything together.
It all received an epoxy primer and the parts will soon be painted..
A few news items ago we already revealed that we were working on a new BMW spit.
Today we officially installed the car in the spit. The result was amazing. It was much better then the previous prototype.
It is also easy to move the construction (thanks to the wheels !) and to rotate the car.
Mission accomplished !
We are also going to add some more features but his is not high on the priority list.
Today we installed the steering column to check whether everything fits nicely. As we expected all components are on the perfect position and the engine is hidden under the – to be installed- carbon dashboard.
Nice work from the guys from EZ Powersteering.
Update -as promised – about the steering column
This just leaves us to fit it to check whether everything is like we wanted it to be. We are pretty confident about it but you never know..
It’s just a matter of determining the right height and offset of the steering wheel.
Because we already had good experiences with dummy versions we tried to continue this way of working to make the seat supports and the steering column. No final version yet but just a steering column from a E30 316i and an old racing seat.
Because we did not want to take any risk with the adapter piece for the Sadev gearbox – due to its high production cost – (this has nothing to do with a lak of confidence in our mechanical wizard Nick) we first made a simplified model with low budget tools.( saw and drilling device)
