Anybody want to hazard a guess what I'm doing?

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/20/2015 at 16:55 • Filed to: None

Car related. Two sheet metal types of item: one out of 11GA (~1/8"), one out of 16GA (1/16"). Offsets to top are for clearance on the punch. Only three of the first item and two of the second are needed - blanks make 5/3.

DISCUSSION (23)

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 16:58

Making a switch panel?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 16:58

Instrument panel. Like climate control?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 17:00

Nope. It's a blank to make multiple parts. So, the one on the left makes five, the one on the right makes three. There are some cuts I don't want to make the punch take eons to nibble through, because it's hard on the punch and the missing cuts aren't precision.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
03/20/2015 at 17:02

Not an instrument panel. They're blanks to make multiples of the same parts, with two cuts missing on each piece to be done with a notcher or saw.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:06

Kinja'd!!!

Updated with additional cuts to be made.

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:06

Fixing faulty bodywork?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:07

Nope. I am, in fact, not fixing something faulty, but making something better. Not bodywork, somewhat mechanical. I have an update in reply that will clarify what the pieces are for some people.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
03/20/2015 at 17:09

I've added in reply some additional cuts that the EUROMAC press will not be doing.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
03/20/2015 at 17:10

Update in reply which may make things clearer... or not.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:14

Chassis or suspension reinforcements?

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:14

Something to allow the rear IRS to be adjustable?

Joel Ness > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:14

Is it a case for a home audio amp? Hopefully analog tube setup?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench
03/20/2015 at 17:15

Not chassis. This picture may help (similar vehicle):

Kinja'd!!!

Also, see my update in reply.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
03/20/2015 at 17:16

Nope. That's actually built already. See my reply to myself and my reply to TFritch for more clues.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Joel Ness
03/20/2015 at 17:18

Nope. If you'll look, you'll see that the punch paths leave a whole little lopsided round end of *something* floating in space - and like I said, each rectangle is a blank to make more than one piece (five and three).

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:20

Shifter. Column to floor? Or are you adapting a floor shifted trans to work off of the column?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
03/20/2015 at 17:22

The second one. Increasing the shifter lever pack to three levers/two spacers instead of two levers/one spacer. A Super T-10 has three side levers much like the two on the original ford 3-speed, so it's not that hard other than needing a relay for each link (trans not in original location).

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:25

Nice! They don't offer a side cover for the ST10 with needle bearings, do they? I know they do for Muncies.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
03/20/2015 at 17:31

They might - haven't looked into mods. To make these shenanigans work, I had to pull the end plates out of the column (the plates that the lever pack fits between), and move them apart 1/8". That, combined with swapping the original spacer between plates down to 1/16" instead of 1/8", means that instead of lever-spacer-lever being 3/8" thick, I'll have lever-spacer-lever-spacer-lever 1/2" thick total. I also have to take 1/16" off the thickness of the little shift cog on the tube so it won't try to engage more than one gear at once, and modify the shift collar for 1/16" more room on the top and the bottom. One final touch that's not needed, but I'll do anyway, is adding an extra spring. That way, I can adjust it to find neutral sitting on the 1st/2nd shift lever, and require pushing away to go into 3rd/4th just like pulling up for reverse.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:32

Just came back to this & saw the column, started thinking, then saw crowmolly's post so I won't pretend I figured it out myself. Cool!

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:34

Post up some more pics as you get further. This is really cool and out of the box.

So many people would just throw an electronically controlled auto in there and call it a day.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
03/20/2015 at 17:40

Yeah, fuck using an auto. Fuck that so hard. Column shift 4-4lyfe. Oh, did I mention all these levers and the relay ones are going to be out of 304 stainless? Not something I'd go out of my way to use, but we have it here in the shop in large quantities as scrap, so FULL RETARD it is. I figure with it being slightly harder than CRS anyway it can't hurt.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 19:40

Butt plugs.