My Elio Alternate Project Is Underway.

[Mark BEX]

- his wife allows it, but it's on a daily basis, sometimes hourly.

Man, I had no idea you knew my wife!! Ha!!

Oh, you think she's unique ....

 

[3wheelin]

I want to do the rollbars, but that entails sealing down the dash panel making access to the footwell a little awkward, so instead today I finished mounting the steering rack proper.

I laser cut and folded some new mounts, and welded them for the left side of the rack mount, you can see it's locked down with 4 bolts now rather than 2,
... and I laser'd and folded a strengthening plate on the outside of the firewall. Simply a flat plate with 2 x 90 degree folds for strength.

Bit hard to see in the pictures as I painted it all to protect the large mating surfaces from rust, so the CAD drawings are included to explain it.

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Hey, he's the Boss in his house.

- his wife allows it, but it's on a daily basis, sometimes hourly.

I don't know 'bout you guys, at home I'm the one barking orders and she have no say about it! "Get outta here, I'm mopping the floor!" or "don't you argue with me, I'm doing the laundry, and I'll fold too, ok?"

 

[Mark BEX]

Good day today, got a bit done:

Dash top and facia fitted and the footwell box fully welded together
Obviously the front roll bars are sitting in place,
The front suspension upper mounting rail also in place
Right hand intrusion bar welded in,
The clutch and brake pedals boxes sitting in place.

Hope things keep going this smoothly :-)

 

[84mpg]

Good day today, got a bit done:

Dash top and facia fitted and the footwell box fully welded together
Obviously the front roll bars are sitting in place,
The front suspension upper mounting rail also in place
Right hand intrusion bar welded in,
The clutch and brake pedals boxes sitting in place.

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Hope thing keep going this smoothly :-)

Coming together!! Woohoo!! Great progress!!

 

[Mark BEX]

I fussed around a bit thinking how was I going to get the front rollbar legs in the right position, and mirrored equally left to right, when I discovered that the outside of the bend is directly vertically inline with the inner edge of the main rails, only needing to hold a plumb bob to line them up, bit of win there, checked the CAD drawing, and sure enough, that's how it is there as well - see double red arrow ...

After getting the front rollbar legs positioned and welded, moved on to the rear rollbar legs.

Having a bit of a fight with the fuel tank for space, but I have a plan ...

 

[84mpg]

Sure is great to see skin against the bones! From 7,500 miles away, looks like it's going to be a perfect fit!

A couple of well placed hammer blows will make the tank fit, right?

 

[Mark BEX]

Sure is great to see skin against the bones! From 7,500 miles away, looks like it's going to be a perfect fit!

A couple of well placed hammer blows will make the tank fit, right?

 

[3wheelin]

Or.........don't leave home without it!

 

[Rickb]

If the gas tank doesn’t fit you could turn the main rails into battery packs!

 

[84mpg]

If the gas tank doesn’t fit you could turn the main rails into battery packs!

Naw…. I’d rather have two, 1-gallon milk jugs for gas. It would get you further down the road…