New RockStar Fab project vehicle

[Puffdragon]

Originally Posted by Buckon37s

I forgot to ask you earlier. Do they allow you to race with a non bladder cell?

Spell corrected!

[Roxtar]

Originally Posted by Buckon37s

I forgot to ask you earlier. Do they allow you to race with a non blatter cell?

Bladder cells are recommended but not required.

[Vu14TJ]

What's the width (outside tire to outside tire) and the WB?

[Roxtar]

Originally Posted by Vu14TJ

What's the width (outside tire to outside tire) and the WB?

71.5" front / 65" rear / 107" WB

[Roxtar]

Couple more pics with the front trimming done:













And for those who wanted steering pics:



I mean, it's a nice wheel but no big deal...

[Roxtar]

OK, OK, just kidding :

[zukijames]

Sweet!

[zuzich26]

are you going to put a steering arm from the top of the knuckle down to the top of the drag link heim as well? also what is uptravel from ride height?

[Roxtar]

Originally Posted by zuzich26

are you going to put a steering arm from the top of the knuckle down to the top of the drag link heim as well? also what is uptravel from ride height?

Yes and 9" uptravel. Avail shock downtravel is 7" but we'll most likely be limited there to our heim angles.
Rear is 15" uptravel and 6" down.

[zukijames]

Originally Posted by Roxtar

Yes and 9" uptravel. Avail shock downtravel is 7" but we'll most likely be limited there to our heim angles.
Rear is 15" uptravel and 6" down.

15 of up is bitchin!

[Roxtar]

I just had something happen that made me smile in the middle of a shitty day.
When we need steel burnouts that are thicker than 5" we have a company in Ohio do them for us. We've been working with them for years.

Two weeks ago, I sent them this drawing for a clevis cut out of 6.75" steel plate. Most here know what a clevis looks like:



It required a double sided burn; one for the initial and then another to radius the two legs:

[Roxtar]

This is what they sent me:



Sent my inside sales guy an email with the picture and we both laughed a bit (They've made countless burnouts of this same style part for us)
He said he'd get another one right out.

[Roxtar]

This came in today:



I couldn't even get mad; had to laugh.

At least there's really only one plane left for them to do to get it right.

[MNtal]

That's awesome...

Looks like you need to include an Isometric veiw on your print.

[909wheeler]

Wow. Just wow...

[DasLandRoverMan]

Hehehehehe....

Must be a decent weight in scrap?

[Roxtar]

Originally Posted by DasLandRoverMan

Hehehehehe....

Must be a decent weight in scrap?

Seriously, the scrap value of the two slabs will just about pay for the actual part. Add to that the $200 each for shipping (the reason they're not asking us to return the bad ones) and their profit margin is a little bit down.

[Roxtar]

While we're off topic, I figured I'd toss out one reason work has been coming out of the shop slowly:

Boyne Highlands DH crash

[FrankenRover]

Eh, its just a flesh wound. Looks like it rung your bell a bit though.

[Roxtar]

Originally Posted by FrankenRover

Eh, its just a flesh wound. Looks like it rung your bell a bit though.

Yea, it was ugly. That trail exits with a 3' drop onto a wood ramp. I was getting set up for it, not paying attention to the right side, and clipped a tree with the bars. That's what put me dead on into the next tree. I bounced down and popped off the lip and landed on my shoulder blade on the corner of the ramp.
After the 6hr drive home, I looked like Quasi-modo.

The funny part is my buddy who helped me up set my helmet down twice; both times with the camera pointing right at me as I'm trying to clear my head.
He swears it was completely unintentional and coincidence.

I'm not convinced.

[Spongeidys]

i love that.. i have a few videos of me cursing before hitting the ground also.. looks like it sucked.. and where is that cam mounted chest?

[Roxtar]

Right side of the helmet.
Don't F-bombs sound cool in slo-mo.

[zukijames]

i didnt know your old buggy was in utah.. just saw the for sale add

[Roxtar]

Dropped it off at Lane's house last weekend.
He called me on my way home, after playing around with it, saying, "This thing isn't even fair."

[zukijames]

lane? didnt a Lane buy bucks old buggy?