If your interested check out my Thunder Ranch build over at http://mikestrporsche550build.blogspot.com/ I just got it started today but will be adding all the stuff I have for the build of that car from the last year or so.
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If your interested check out my Thunder Ranch build over at http://mikestrporsche550build.blogspot.com/ I just got it started today but will be adding all the stuff I have for the build of that car from the last year or so.
Yeah - go Mike!!!
angela
angela
Hi Angela, thanks for the encouragment. I added some more to it last night and have some more to add in the next few days. I was down in your area again not to long ago but I forgot to bring my laptop to access the site. I would have liked to check out your car while I was there.
Mike,
Good luck on your adventure. I built my TR Phase III and it took a lot longer than I expected. I had sand or blast media in the front torsion tubes that I had to use a shotgun cleaner to swab out. There were a number of other unexpected matters that required improvisation and backyard engineering to solve.
Keep the faith. You'll "git 'er done." I just ran my around the block yesterday to keep the seals and gaskets lubed and keep the "cobwebs" out. (We've had freaky temperatures here in St. Louis. High yesterday and today was 72 degrees, so I took advantage of it.)
Let me know if you have any questions. I may have solved some of the same one's you encounter.
Jim
ProSpyder
Good luck on your adventure. I built my TR Phase III and it took a lot longer than I expected. I had sand or blast media in the front torsion tubes that I had to use a shotgun cleaner to swab out. There were a number of other unexpected matters that required improvisation and backyard engineering to solve.
Keep the faith. You'll "git 'er done." I just ran my around the block yesterday to keep the seals and gaskets lubed and keep the "cobwebs" out. (We've had freaky temperatures here in St. Louis. High yesterday and today was 72 degrees, so I took advantage of it.)
Let me know if you have any questions. I may have solved some of the same one's you encounter.
Jim
ProSpyder
Thanks James, I think I have most of my gremlins sorted out. I just have a few engineering issues to work through. One question though. I see on your car that you used a vw e brake. Did you weld up the ears and catch for it onto your frame or did you cut the mount from an old vw chassis.
Mike,
I fabricated a hardwood spacer (in a U shape for the cables to run aft)that I mounted the ebrake assembly onto with four bolts. The hardwood spacer and ebrake assembly is attached to the metal strip the runs down the center of the Spyder with the same bolts. Other than having to re-engineer the handbrake mechanism, which is a new chrome VW replacement assembly, it was fairly straightforward and works fine.
I routed each ebrake cable through a pair wheel mounted on a steel plate I fabricated so each could change direction 90 degrees from fore-and-aft at the ebrake outboard to the brakes themselves.
Hope that helps.
Jim
ProSpyder
I fabricated a hardwood spacer (in a U shape for the cables to run aft)that I mounted the ebrake assembly onto with four bolts. The hardwood spacer and ebrake assembly is attached to the metal strip the runs down the center of the Spyder with the same bolts. Other than having to re-engineer the handbrake mechanism, which is a new chrome VW replacement assembly, it was fairly straightforward and works fine.
I routed each ebrake cable through a pair wheel mounted on a steel plate I fabricated so each could change direction 90 degrees from fore-and-aft at the ebrake outboard to the brakes themselves.
Hope that helps.
Jim
ProSpyder