PROJECT "SPIDER MONKEY"
Well, I thought I was far enough along to post some pics and info on the 08' Teryx I have been building for a year now. It had 48 hrs. on it when it came apart. This is not a BITD built car or anything like that I built it close to their specs but some of it is not. I built it for a weekend racer/trail rig. The main thing in my mind while building it was safty. We have some rally type races here in Missouri that I would like for my wife and I to race. She has alway's supported everything I have raced in the past and want to get her to drive as many as I do. I think that would be cool as hell! anyway, I started by tearing it apart and building new seat risers 7" from the floor pan. Then came the cage, 1 3/4 .095 dom.
Then the stock dash and all suports were removed and a new structure was fabed up and an aluminum dash/trans cover was made. I took the e brake and mounted it in the console with a lock/unlock lever so it can be used as an e brake when the lever is locked or a turning brake when unlocked. I then made the doors, 1 1/2" .095 DOM and skinned them and the roof with .065 aluminum. relocated radiator and installed fuel cell. all front square tubing from firewall forward was removed and replaced with the 1 1/2" tubing and extended forward 6". All front control arm mounting points were reinforced with 3/16" cold rolled steel. I then built the front control arms 6" over 4" forward and plated them with cold rolled 10ga. I designed the control arms to have the lower control arm recieve the shock mount instead of the top to lower the 14" shocks down and keep them under the body work. The shocks are set up to be at 90 degrees at full bump. It is now front steer.
The control arms have 5 degrees of positive caster and the spindles were built to recieve 3/4 heims in the vertical position so as not to limit wheel travel. With the misalighnment spacers installed, I still have near factory turning radius. I built my own sleaved axles and modified my cv's and have 20" of wheel travel. The question is, is all that cv joint work going to hold up, it should but,we will see. The corner weights with stock suspension still on was: LF-284# RF-339# (2 batteries mounted on right side) LR- 302# RR- 346#. pretty close to 50-50 front to rear without me in it and 1/2 tank of fuel.
The hood you see in the pics is actually 2 hoods grafted into 1, 1 foot wider than stock. It is my starting point for building the fiberglass hood. The reason I just didn't build a complete new chassis is because this thing snow plows 30 drivways with it in the winter and I just can't risk not having it back together when the snow starts to fly. anyway, it goes on and on and I will stop here. I have so much still to do, rear suspension, fiberglass body etc,etc,etc. Any comments good or bad are welcome.
Here are some pictures of it so far. More pics to come.
Then the stock dash and all suports were removed and a new structure was fabed up and an aluminum dash/trans cover was made. I took the e brake and mounted it in the console with a lock/unlock lever so it can be used as an e brake when the lever is locked or a turning brake when unlocked. I then made the doors, 1 1/2" .095 DOM and skinned them and the roof with .065 aluminum. relocated radiator and installed fuel cell. all front square tubing from firewall forward was removed and replaced with the 1 1/2" tubing and extended forward 6". All front control arm mounting points were reinforced with 3/16" cold rolled steel. I then built the front control arms 6" over 4" forward and plated them with cold rolled 10ga. I designed the control arms to have the lower control arm recieve the shock mount instead of the top to lower the 14" shocks down and keep them under the body work. The shocks are set up to be at 90 degrees at full bump. It is now front steer.
The control arms have 5 degrees of positive caster and the spindles were built to recieve 3/4 heims in the vertical position so as not to limit wheel travel. With the misalighnment spacers installed, I still have near factory turning radius. I built my own sleaved axles and modified my cv's and have 20" of wheel travel. The question is, is all that cv joint work going to hold up, it should but,we will see. The corner weights with stock suspension still on was: LF-284# RF-339# (2 batteries mounted on right side) LR- 302# RR- 346#. pretty close to 50-50 front to rear without me in it and 1/2 tank of fuel.
The hood you see in the pics is actually 2 hoods grafted into 1, 1 foot wider than stock. It is my starting point for building the fiberglass hood. The reason I just didn't build a complete new chassis is because this thing snow plows 30 drivways with it in the winter and I just can't risk not having it back together when the snow starts to fly. anyway, it goes on and on and I will stop here. I have so much still to do, rear suspension, fiberglass body etc,etc,etc. Any comments good or bad are welcome.
Here are some pictures of it so far. More pics to come.
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