SXOR single seater build

Blase · Mar 31, 2014

What size motor was in this buggy before you got it? V-8 or something smaller?

Sounds like new wheels would solve all your clearance issues? Front and Rear? if so i'd just plan on doing that.

Keep the updates coming. Looks bad ass as a roller.

hokie_yj · Mar 31, 2014

I believe the guy I got it from was setting it up for a Supercharged 3.8. That was my original plan, but I decided I wanted a V8.

New wheels will solve the issue on the rear, on the front I'll have to cut out a small piece of tube and move it just a little. No big deal. I am gonna get new wheels, I just have to sell mine first.

Need some wheels? Lol

hokie_yj · Apr 7, 2014

I didn't get to update over the weekend. Saturday I got the drivetrain in what I think will be the final position and tacked in some motor mounts. I will gusset them when I'm sure that nothing needs to be moved. I still need to build the transmission mount, and the Atlas support mount. I have the design in my head, I just need to pick up the material I need to build them.

Here you can kinda see the clearance issue with where the pinion yoke will be and the oil pan. I'm gonna pull the oil pan tomorrow and put it up for sale. I'll put my truck pan back on until I can buy the pan I'm gonna run.

Today I started off with mounting the seat.

Here you can see how close it is to the transmission.

Then I mounted the Wilwood brake pedal and MCs.

My motor is DBW and the stock pedal is firewall mounted, but I had to have something floor mounted. Lokar makes a floor mountable DBW pedal, but the price on it is ridiculous. So I decided to hack up my stock pedal and make it work the way I needed it to. It's not pretty, but it will get the job done.

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

I spent most of the day in the shop, but it doesn't feel like I got much done. I spent a lot of time just staring at it trying to figure out what's gonna go where, and how to make it fit there. Kind feel like I'm hitting a wall, but I'm not gonna give up now.

One thing I did accomplish today was finding a place for the winch and mounting it. About the only place to put it was right in front of the seat under my legs.

I made the mounts out if some 1.5" angle I had in the shop. I just had to notch it a little to clear the body of the winch. And the notched it to fit 1.5" tubing.

It's tight, but it actually fits pretty good there.

The way my knees will be bent I don't even notice it there. I can reach down under my left leg and work the clutch lever easily too. I have a narrow fairlead that I will put on the winch mount I just didn't have any socket head bolts to mount it. The rope will run right under the floor pan under my feet and through another fairlead that will mount to the tube right behind the track bar in the picture below. I think the rope will be fine running under the buggy, but if I need to I'll figure out some way to protect it.

I plan to work on it some more tomorrow. I really have no idea what I'll work on, but I'll find something I can do. This is my first time taking on a project like this, and as you can tell I don't have it very well organized. I really need to take the time to set down and make a list of things that need to be done. That way I can plan things out better and have goals to work towards.

ibrokeit · Apr 8, 2014

On the protect the rope idea, can you put a piece of tube from fairlead to fairlead and run the rope through it?

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

Yeah, I've seen that done before. I may end up doing just that. It just needs to be good and smooth so it doesn't cut the rope.

midwestracer2003 · Apr 8, 2014

no pics

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

They're showing up fine on my end. :dunno:

ibrokeit · Apr 8, 2014

Pics work fine.

ridered3 · Apr 8, 2014

ibrokeit said:
Pics work fine.

Mine says bandwidth exceeded.

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

I don't know what's up. I can still see them fine on my end. I uploaded them through the Photobucket app.

ibrokeit · Apr 8, 2014

They are showing bandwidth exceeded on my cell. Is your avatar hosted by photobucket? That ate up a ton of my photobucket bandwidth.

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

It probably is. I'll see if I can't clear out some room in my photobucket.

Edit: My photobucket app says my storage is only 11% full. I don't know what the hell is wrong.

hokie_yj · Apr 8, 2014

I deleted a bunch of stuff where the Photobucket app was automatically backing up the pics from my phone. And I also turned the auto back-up off. Let me know if the pics show up now.

ridered3 · Apr 8, 2014

hokie_yj said:
I deleted a bunch of stuff where the Photobucket app was automatically backing up the pics from my phone. And I also turned the auto back-up off. Let me know if the pics show up now.

Good deal. Generally I've had to wait a few days when my bandwidth is exceeded.

zjtrey · Apr 9, 2014

buggy is looking awesome…

what seat is that?

Blase · Apr 9, 2014

Really liking this buggy. Any progress on sell the wheels and getting new ones?

hokie_yj · Apr 9, 2014

zjtrey said:
buggy is looking awesome€

what seat is that?

Thanks! It's a PRP Podium seat the front is all black cordura, and the back is vinyl. The seat cushion is removable and it's all mesh underneath so water will just drain out. It's a little big for this tiny little chassis, but it is SOOO comfortable even for a fatass like me. I've got a 42" waist and wide shoulders, but I still fit pretty good in a standard width seat. +2" would be nice, but I didn't have room.

Blase said:
Really liking this buggy. Any progress on sell the wheels and getting new ones?

Thanks again! The wheels sold on eBay, a little cheaper than I hoped but oh well. Dude from CA won them. I talked to him yesterday, he's still trying to figure out shipping so he hasn't paid me yet. Hopefully he will come through. As soon as I get the money I'm going to order new wheels. Probably another set of Stazworks, I talked to TWF about theirs, but they were quite a bit higher. It's back on jack stands for now.

hokie_yj · Apr 16, 2014

Worked on this thing for a little while today. Got the orbital mount tacked in place where I "think" it needs to be. The column I had is too short so I had to order a longer one. I'm not a big fan of having the orbital so close to me, but there's nowhere else to put it.

After that I started tacking in the seatbelt mounts. After I took this picture I decided to weld the locknuts to the tabs to make them easier to remove. I didn't take pics of the rest of the tabs, but nobody cares anyway, that's boring.

After I finished the belt mounts I started working on the Atlas tail support.

Anybody see anything wrong with the way I mounted that? That's 1/4" plate for the base. Do you think it will be ok bridging that gap? It will obviously be welded on both ends, as well as to the tube running diagonally across the middle. I'm going to do the transmission mount tomorrow. I'm planning to do it pretty much the same way unless somebody talks me out of it.

Also I ordered my new wheels last week. Went with another set of Stazworks, 17"x9" with 3" BS. They said lead time would be at least 6 weeks, it's a long wait but I know they'll be worth it. It's a long way from that stage, but I think I've decided on colors too. I hate the design on the skins that came on this thing. I think I'll try to do plasti-dip on the skins in satin black, and then paint the chassis with Rustoleum hammered copper. I think that will look pretty decent.