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Hi there! After months of ouroboros sitting under a carp at nature's mercy, the time to retake this project has come. Ordered the correct belt from eBay, it just arrived on friday. As I might posted, the incorrect (too tight belt) caused my bronze bushing to disintegrate, and since shipping...

Have yall seen this? A 4 pound engine making 3 hp. They even tested it on a go kart! Hopefully, it having so few moving parts means it won't be outrageously priced. Here's the link, video included. Thoughts?

And here are the markings on my belt. Definitely not what I expected. Distance between centers appears to be 6 11/16", adjusting for me taking a one handed picture while holding the measuring tape.

Finally picked up my build form the Uni's workshop. Say, after testing my trike for about 20 minutes, I kinda noticed this residue on my TC plate. Is this normal? I'm using both the shaft spacer and a washer that was included to make the pulleys line up. Can you tell if I need adjustment...

End of Chapter 4. A milestone has been reached. So, it finally happened. Didn't post earlier because I'm kinda recovering from this semester's finals. Worked the weekend, Monday and Thursday, because we had, without further prorogue, to present a functional product, that was to be shown on our...

Not dead yet. All parts have been successfully tested, on their own. Maybe later today we'll test the whole thing. Pictures show an almost finished assembly test, by the time we were done with the pedals. Seat is covered because of welding/grinding/cutting metal,sparks hurt the fabric. Later we...

Errrr... ok then. So, back to business. More progress today. Chapter 4: Still not over, still not dead. Took a picture of that rack and pinion we shortened for comparison purposes. And maybe show off a bit. As Murphy would have it, right as we were fitting the engine to it's cage, I noticed...

Update, kind of. Good news! My team's due date was moved from tomorrow to this Monday. Great, as we have a ton of work left. So, once again, I missed a ton of pictures. I got my hands on an hydraulic rack and pinion, Chrysler if the label on it is to be believed. It included everything up to...

Chapter 4: Fabrication Cont. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, we are using grade 5, 1/2" bolts with nylon insert lock nuts on all A-Arms and pivoting brackets. I'm missing pictures, but we are getting closer to where we currently are. We got the sheet that will protect the driver from rocks and...

Chapter 4: Fabrication Cont. Figured I should mention, those heim joints I found were left hand threaded, and the guy at the bolt n nuts shop told me I would have to get them specially made. While I was pondering on the economical implications, he suddenly had an idea that saved me time and...

Chapter 4: Fabrication Cont. We still on how misaligned these holes are. That electrode had almost no wiggle space. Will look nice once polished. Couple more views of the base. After bashing and grinding and bending made those fit so that they would move smoothly on the arc they were...

Chapter 4: Fabrication Cont. I guess I should say that these photos are a very shortened version of the process. And that I forgot to take pictures a lot. Also, by the point were we got the seat, I had wasted a lot of time trying to fix messy welds done by all 3 of us. Lacking proper technique...

Chapter 4: Fabrication. Here we go. Square 1" profile, first order (2 x 20ft) were 12 gauge, then we moved to 14 gauge. First pieces of tubing cut. Oh boy, was I stoked at how fast it went. If only I knew. Thing welded as per the model. Mostly improvising with little thought to future parts...

Chapter 3: Parts list, part dos. #40 chain. Gotta get me a second master link btw. Pillow block bearings, for a 1" shaft that I have no picture of, but there it is. Have 4 total, because I need to run a jackshaft, and the shaft is long enough that I can cut it in half and get the 2 I need...

Chapter 3: Parts list, part uno. Be it noticed, parts and stuff have been being bought through the entire process, from different sources, and second hand when possible, to reduce costs. I'm simply collecting it all in one (or maybe two) posts for convenance sake. Once again, since I was...