My Barracuda in the sand.

[plkracer]

Mine has 2.5 inches of gc at full bump with 25's in front and 27's in the rear. I used 8.5 inch fox airs in the front, and that is the longest shock you want. I can barely use full droop. I had to make some clearance cuts to the uprights to get that. The engine is a GSXR 750. It has plenty of power for what I do.

[artie on edge]

Mate, excellent ride. Got any jpg porn for us?

[plkracer]

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/Plkracer/

That's my album. Most of my pics are in there, the most recent are first.

[artie on edge]

wont let me in mate. Wants a password. Damn thang....

[plkracer]

Sorry about that, it's hello   

just made it public...

[artie on edge]

Thanks for sharing, I see youve addressed some of my issues with the beast as well. As I said nice ride. For the most part I think its a very good design, my alterations arent meant as a critiscm of the design, just my interpretation added on.

Well done.

[plkracer]

Yep, the bugs are being worked out. Still a lot to do, but it'll be there one day.

This car wasn't made to be the nicest thing around. As long as it drives and goes fast, I'm happy! I was able to pull it off for pretty cheap considering what a fourwheeler with mods costs.

[artie on edge]

One of the changes to mine is my own design final drive and restyling the rear barwork. Firstly to provide the final drive some protection in a reaender and asthetics. We race these in their own closs here and getting hit from behind is a distinct possibilty.

[Yummi]

Question Artie:

Why angle the two rear supports as opposed to just straight up? (Rear "B" from back)  Is it a space thing for the engine / rad area?  Also why have the rear "C" (from the back again) as opposed to just tying into the main cage?

The frame stuff is all new to me - so any input / explanation is always a good thing for my melon. 

PLK - don't mean to hijack - consider it more of a bump?

[plkracer]

I didn't do any changes to the chassis besides a little different bracing. What engine do you plan to use?

No problem yummi.

[Admin]

artie, how about a build log...

[artie on edge]

Hi Yummi, 1 more bar to go in (angling forward to meet the top of the first bar which is angling backwards) which will make a Y on top of the last rear vertical, tying the whole lot together (I prefer angulation to spread loads). I had run out of tube at that point.

The rear C is missing a heap of barwork yet. it was all dependant on my final drive which is a build log on here in fabrication under aluminium casting.

The barwork will relate to the suspension mount points etc.

Engine is intended to be an 08 Busa. Just watching the markets until some fool face plants and one comes up at auction. 08's are a  little tougher in several areas than earlier models.

I have also remove the triangulation on the sides of the cockpit and putting it back as per the plans. tony was right, the way it is there interferes with foot room, they will be reversed.

Hey Bug, come on, im already doing the final drive build log... I only got so much spare time.

Perhaps closer to finish I will run a series.

[artie on edge]

Sorry, one more change to the chassis as you see it. The angled bars at the front (front hoop to chassis bottom) are the fron tsuspension mounts. Designed to allow the suspension to swing up and back. Due to small diameter wheels. Im using 15" wheels on front and 14" on rear so it doesnt need to swing back as much and that bar is being replaced by another set up to reduce that angle giving less swing back.

Small wheels hit potholes and find it harder to roll out of them hence swing back helps, big wheel dont have this problem so much.

Sorry PLK im outa your thread, mate its all yours again....

[phelpsracing1]

Hey Plk, where did you get your rear drivline? shaft, sprocket hubs, bearings etc... They look very well thought out and put together nice.

[plkracer]

The rear axles hubs/ bearings are all jetta stuff. They were for my first build since the axle did not need to be lengthened. I lengthened them for the cuda and they seem to be holding up.

The sprocket/ center drive unit is all custom. It was all to save on cost, but I see now that I may end up changing it so I know I won't have a problem. The sprocket/disc holder in the center was custom machined in exchange for some small electronics work, and the center axle and weld a hubs are all g and g stuff, and the cv cups are from protodie. The new design is like the edge where the cups will bolt to the center drive and be on larger bearings than the 1 3/8 I have now. It will also bring the axles in an inch on each side, then I will have axles made to fit type 4 on the inside and jetta fwd units on the outside.