Rotr8

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I'll try but I think we should only look to the Furai for inspiration not a straight rip, I would like people to look at it and say , "hey thats bad ***", not "hey thats a badass 3 wheel Furai" ya know???

Moon Assad

I understand. I hate the way the furia looks head on. We dont need all the wierd how can I say waves. Some of those lines behind the front wheel wells look sick though.

Moon Assad

Im thinking maybe incorperate that head on view in your scetch (with the ducting and all) and somehow let it flow into a section behind the wheels like the Furia has yet taper it into the center. Did I mention I had to cut up those A-arms to re angle the hym, I was pissed.

Rotr8

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Alright, but our chassis in no way ressembles the Courage C65 chassis that the Furai is based off,,,
I can do that but dont look at me when we get sued my Mazda
Ohh and here are some original sketches of the Furai which mine already have many cues from as is ....
What I will do is streamline the back to fit the one wheel and open up a vend behind the front wheels where the airflow elements are in the Furai...
I'll aggree with you that as of yet I havent perfectly blended the rear to the front.., the Furai solves this in a very simple and elegant way ,,,,

Moon Assad

Yeh, your feelin me. Dont worrie about getting sued buy Mazda. Were do you think im getting the motor parts from. Its gona look nuthing like anything they have ever made but giving it some ideas showing that it is 7 stock. Start off with the lines and flow it as good as you can. Another idea is flow the inlet scoop in between the front wheels and cockpit, maydbe start with the inner withought the wheels and front fenders then add that for fit n finish. Im seeing a wing designed into the section between the front fenders and cockpit also acting as vents. Ill place the rad in it and you wont even see it unless you look from the bottom up into the grill or from behind the outlet vents.

Moon Assad

I just had another idea. Widen and flatten out the exaust to double as the rear fender ( insulated of course). Another thing to keep in mind that ive learned through out the years. Make everything do atleast 2 jobs if not 3 and ive even seen 4 but that takes alot of thought and you need to get lucky for that.

Moon Assad

Well, just got the upper A-arms straitened out. It was a killer cutting those works of art to pieces. It ended up not such a bad ordeal but cutting up a $500 chromoly set of arms hurts. They were powdercoated and everything. Guess they wanted to be flat black.

Rotr8

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Needed some inspiration for the rear swing arm...

VW GX3





Puegot 20Cup









Something very dangerous and unsafe looking...

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and something pretty cool...

pdxhak

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wow some of those look really cool!

Rotr8

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Heres the front of the 20C







And heres the front of the GX3

Moon Assad

I like the 4th one down, that looks sweet and expensive. Im looking to build one that has no change in camber in the turns wich is 1 reason the Trex slides so easy. I think we have an advantage since I decided to put the mono shock centerd inline with the spine.

Moon Assad

if that last one has an arm on each side it looks like its rigid enough, if its single sided I see it having the before mentioned camber problem.

Rotr8

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Moon thoughts on rear layout....

Moon Assad

A single sided swing arm hasnt been perfected yet, theres so many different strains put on them and so many points of stress, turning, braking, on throttle, of throttle.

Moon Assad

Thanks Greg. Ok, if you look at the bottom sketch you see tubing stretching outwards, im thinking about having 4 points of mounting inline to spread out the load.

Moon Assad

Have 1 pivot point with 4 inline bearings for the swing arm not including the shock.

Moon Assad

Greg, I need you to give me a class on solidworks.

Rotr8

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You know what,,,when/if you came up with my secondary Rad mod I would be more than happy to take off a couple days, able to take off and teach you everything I know, and we could figure out what the hell the noise in my car is and do the W/M install... as a trade off,,,,

Moon Assad

Yeh but theres a problem with that at the moment, its cold up there. Let me see whats going on March, I might have my blower on buy then but I have a goal that I might have to brake and that is finish #1 before I install. Gritting my teeth.

Rotr8

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No rush, it's a date then if you wanna set up a date in late March -April let me know I'll get the word around and we can have a meet where people can come meet you and talk Pettit and Street Ray, and Rotary maintenace in generall... Install my custom Rads and discuss the development of the Street Ray...

Moon Assad

Sounds good to me. The warmer the better. Just figuring out how to drag this puppy up behind the 8 without the weight of a trailer. That is if buy gods prayer its finished buy then.

Rotr8

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hmmm that is a mighty big hurdle....
Maybe the V-Cross would have to make another trip then you can setup an offroad with Pat again...

Moon Assad

Going strait with the single rotor added some more work to getting this togeather. I gotta cough up the rest of my payment on the tranny, I put a $750 deposit on it. Im looking around for stuff to sell that I can live without. Anyone want a Kart with handle bars and hand controls??? It does 100 plus

Moon Assad

Holy crap, I have a CBR-929 to sell, I forgot about that.

Moon Assad

Welcome to the machine