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Great paint work and color choice. Once it's toned down with a little dust it will look perfect!! Awesome metal work, too. Gives me something to aspire to.

jps1145 wrote:How do the top of the rear shocks mount? From the side of the shock body?

Yeah you can see here it connects from the side of the shock body to the rollcage.

ts39136 wrote:Great paint work and color choice. Once it's toned down with a little dust it will look perfect!! Awesome metal work, too. Gives me something to aspire to.

second that,nice job so far.

Ol'fogasaurus wrote:viewtopic.php?f=28&t=123506&p=922959&hi ... ba#p922959

This is the one I was talking about... I think. Since it was bajaherbie I would look carefully.

you would not want to cover the shock body and block air from cooling it. class 11 shocks get cooking hot , over 450 deg.

I'm not sure if this was a play buggy or a race buggy. As I remember it was a continuation from another thread... or two that were not cross-linked. You do post an interesting question though as I remember there were several different ways proposed.

i dont think i ever went fast enough for mine to get hot

So, whats the latest? We need pics....

Well I have done some stuff, I will update later today.

Ok got the passenger side fenders on, mirror mount, wheels painted, new shift coupler, and the shifter installed. Starting to look like a bug. I'm thinking about the electrical also and trying to get a game plan for that. I wanted to use those push button style breakers that I would put on the dash, but I would need like 12 or more and now that I think about it, it would clutter up the dash a lot. So hopefully I can get some feedback on that. I will be making some diagrams and a dash mockup.






Here are some closeups on how these new style shocks mount.

fixxor wrote:
Here are some closeups on how these new style shocks mount.

I am confused Not the first time though.

I realize that this is a class-11 car and the travel in minimal but don't the rear arms still swing an arc that is clocked 90* from the pivot of those mounts? What keeps it from twisting those mounts off? Or does the shock mount itself have a spherical ball in that mount?

Yes there is like a heim in the shock mount that allows it to pivot.

Gotcha!

Car looks awesome BTW

Thanks.

As far as breakers go, I use the heat resettable breakers just to keep it simple. I have used the push buttons before and they were OK but I like the other ones as being more simple. NAPA used to carry a sealable box for C/Bs but they changed vendors and the ones I have are not available. They now had a non-sealable mount for individual and pairs but are currently (no pun intended) out of them. I just got to the dunes late yesterday and it is a "flop house" right now and I have to be quiet and typing is too noisy... I've already heard about it . I will try to get some pix of what I have as I have also bussed them inside of the box to make some of them switched and some "hot".

Lee

Killer car! I dig it!