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Rome Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 7:33 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Your extended chassis and body create a much more "mature" vehicle appearance than the original Vokaro. Looking forward to progress as you work through the component fitment challenges. |
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2012 Posts: 1180 Location: MS
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Yeah well.....it is not just little bit longer.....it is a lot lower.
Drop spindles, adjusters, pie cut, relocated Napoleon hats.......and a major body drop
Look at that down hill bar from the torsion tube to where it used to live at.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2012 Posts: 1180 Location: MS
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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The assembled rack and pinion.
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slayer61 Samba Member
Joined: June 01, 2021 Posts: 999 Location: CA
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Man, we need a "like" button! _________________
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... Most folks are idiots when it deals with electrical !!! |
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3/4 race cam? What's missing, one of the lobes? |
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'68 Manx clone... Sears??
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W-125 w/ GB 1.25:1 rockers
Mahle forged pistons
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2012 Posts: 1180 Location: MS
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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And some of the back end going together.
I did get the 28mm torsion bars set......at least for now.
It is just right..... right now.....I am guessing by the time all is together and settled in that I am going to need an upward adjustment . _________________
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2012 Posts: 1180 Location: MS
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Annnnd poof there goes a whole post.
Now to do it again.
Have not had much to me lately....lotsa work and a sickly wife. So most work as been small items.
Got the dial indicator and the degree wheel and found the sync for the distributor drive. Got the drive dog pinned on....which completes my Chevy distributor in a Mazda mod.
Made the throttle linkage and cables up.
In the meantime I have been jumping on the rear trying to settle the new springs. Seems to have worked. I have re-indexed the springs and put in the brake lines and axles.
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Buggeee Samba Member
Joined: December 22, 2016 Posts: 4390 Location: Stuck in Ohio
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2012 Posts: 1180 Location: MS
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Such a beautiful build. Just Gorgeous. |
This thing is more uneven and lopsided that you can see in the pictures.
The wheelbase/chassis/suspension is all in square/alignment. I cut the fender wells to make that happen.
But the rest of the body is up to an inch lopsided. Some of it averaged out.....some of it just had to be lived with.....or hack the whole body up into sections and remake the whole thing. _________________
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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The rear sub frame is going together.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Made the gas tank ....
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Spent a my half a day making an off thermostat neck.
One more part done....
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Mechanical nearly done.
Making catch cans now.
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67rustavenger Samba Member
Joined: February 24, 2015 Posts: 9663 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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I have been checking in on your progress every once in a while.
This is going to be a very sexy car, when it's completed.
Just looking at your fabrication on the frame, engine, body, looks like the car is in good hands.
When the time comes. Please post a vid of the engine running. We really wanna hear it running.
Keep up the great work! _________________ I have learned over the years.
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Buy Once, Cry Once!
There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Have been on the little things.....brakes are done and functional. E brake cables done. Hoses/fittings/cables.
So no exciting pictures or changes.
Catch can.....
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Rome Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2004 Posts: 9602 Location: Pearl River, NY
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Have you put some weight on the rear of the chassis to make sure that the inside of the rear right tire does not touch the right vertical face of your gas tank when the suspension is at full compression? I realize you have IRS so that there is minimal camber change but now is the time to make sure before all is assembled.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:50 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Yes.
The gas tank was made in place to fit ..... Mocked up and tacked together.....with no springs or snubbers installed....so on hard bottom.
That is also how the fender wells (cut and flair) were done......along with the ground clearance of the frame and body (roughly 2" at full bottom) _________________
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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And here is the radiator fill and pressure cap.
Beside it is the puke can.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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And.....the hoses are all made up and on the remote filter and oil cooler.
Filled with oil and primed up.
Engine spun over after priming and the tdi starter on a type 1 ring on a Mazda flywheel in a Porsche bell housing all worked.
Now that the cooling hoses are newly done it is time to fill with water and check all that for leakes.
I did quickly check the gas tank, but did not hyro it (pressurize and monitor with gauges). I think I will fill it with water and let it sit for a long time. _________________
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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With the mechanical mostly done I have been on electrical.
The "body" wiring is mostly done. All on toggles in the overhead operating relays.
Wiring the "engine" up now with the modified kit computer (in a box with a disguise.
And the battery wedged in the front.
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DeathBySnuSnu Samba Member
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2023 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Vokaro project car |
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Still working on the electronics.....had some problems there. I will get there though.
Made a grill for the back end.
Still working out some shape ideas on what to do with the fiberglass. The rest of the body is made just gotta make something work on the back end
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