I bought a Rolls Royce and want to build it. (Page 14 of 33)

TGP: But he spent $10,000 on a car that's supposed to have a $500 budget.

NASA:  It's not our money, who cares!

Elon:  Rock on!

BTW, I wish he'd bring this beast to the Camden, SC  parade so I can see it in person!

I like it!

But, did you see the RED RUBBER???

Changed the oil pan on engine, retorqued everything, and gave it the college try overall inspection

Pilot bearing broke from when car tried to jump the trailer. 

Tried grease, didn't work.

The roller bearing came apart which left me the outer bearing case basically impossible to remove...but AHA I removed it...with a few #*@*$@!

Flywheel looks like the bottom of my shoe, no time to worry about it

Clutch is in, had to use a universal clutch disc setting tool.  Will see how crappy tool is when i install trans tomorrow.

Ugly yellow steering wheel was too large so I had to get the smallest one I could find.  I had to mount the column low for steering shaft clearance.

Playing around with center console ideas, the car is so GINORMOUS that its the only way to get the switches mounted within reach of the driver.

See where the shifter is???????    Yeah, thats about 12" back from where it SHOULD be on the trans.  AHHH

I found a cheap 6 speed shifter, cut off the ball end to solid mount to the trans tunnel, and have to do some kind of linkage doo hicky thing to the factory shifter on the trans. Banging gears on a long throw shifter, yeah!

Console is put together.  And yes, I don't know what to do with the shifter.

First of all. holy crap. you seriously welded that entire seam for the center console. Anyone else would have stitched an inch of weld and then skipped an inch.

Second, go with a big offset linkage. Plenty of teams have done it. put a bar reaching back and then up on the existing shifter. It should work normal enough.

The monkey would be cool, but what if it started to fling poo.  Thank about that

I'm gonna drive this sucker all over!

Shifter solution:  Paddles!  A couple of pneumatic actuators, some wire, a couple of switches...how hard could it be?  You have plenty of time.

Just do it with solenoids. One for X one for Y and a lot of swering at an arduono untill you get the timing right.

Also say goodby to synchros because a robo shifter will not glide its way into gear. Most sequential boxes are dog boxes like in a motorcycle. Smash crash and prey.

What about a compressed fluid tank of grey poupon? How else would I be able to do a grey poupon slick???

Yes, I had to use that drill - only one I had with a larger than 1/2" width.  Needed a 13.5mm drill for the M8 Riv Nut's.

M8 Rivnut's with a little dinky hand thing.  Gotta be a hella man to compress one of those suckers.

Gotta raise up the front a little. 

Engine looks small in the car, but it is literally not possible to fit anything larger. You can tell its offset to the passenger side 1"