The Chopper Compendium

That is a VW gearbox I have been using for mock up purpose.

But I did go get the Porsche 901 side shifter trans.
I will probably open it up to check things out.
It was in a running functional car.....until the car got wrecked.

I made up the "front" engine mount attachment using the original rubber mount on the engine that was attached to the fender well of the donor car. Then got the elephant ears located and tacked down too. Also worked up the rear cross member that ties together the back of the notch and the s...

Out riding....

[youtube]https://youtu.be/uaAUmy53srM[/youtube]

Just lost a long winded post.
I guess it took too long and times out?

So maybe later in bits and pieces.

More mock ups of rear frame and suspension.

A full 13 degree angle on the axles at bottom out.....which is all a type 1 cv joint will handle.

And got it cleaned up. Then welded in the sleeves for the bushings and pressed in the bushings.
This is the spare parts engine and vw trans that I have to use for mocking up.
I am keeping the J spec engine safe in the corner.

Whelp......never did get the rear suspension in that mock up to come into alignment. So the mock up got broke back down and I bent on the frame some to get a couple degrees in the positive camber direction. I dont have the mock up back together yet to measure exactly what I got out of the bending wo...

The urethane bushings and the ball joints came in. Mocked up one side of the rear.......and the camber is too much. I am gonna hafta do something about that. The arms originally have a couple negative degrees made in them. But lowered down I have around 5 degrees. Maybe if I put the arms on upside d...

Dug a chassis kit out of one of my junk piles. Almost time to start tubing it up. 15782594740560.jpg And scrapped a steering wheel from one of my old junkers. 15780068825530.jpg I imagine the Porsche purist would cry watching me cut up an early wheel to put a quick disconnect on. 15800775296310.jpg

Well then.......hmmmm maybe not rocket level. As it still has less hp than the murdercycle. The bike did 196.....at the wheels. That in the 225-230 range at the crank. But....maybe I will turbo the v6. In a lot of ways I dont wanna. I want it to look like a 50's to early 60's euro racer. Of course i...

So now the oil pan hangs out the gap and the torsion is near the center line of the crank.

Made a fixture to hold the tube before cutting it up any further. Then cut the splined hub out of the middle. Then split the hub in the middle, machined it down, welded them into plugs to fit the tube.......and spread them out. Now it takes the short type springs from a 60's swing axle, but uses the...

The torsion tube completely cut out of the horns.

So that leaves me building a heavily modified vw trans..... Or..... Something else. I found a reverse rotation Porsche 901 5 speed side shifter trans for way less than I can build the vw trans for. It is the model trans that would be in a 914. Appropriate gear ratios and such and can handle the v6 a...

This is about when the plans went stupid. I though....well jeez....it would be cool if it was mid engine like a porsche 550 spyder. So I started looking at that.....figured I could do it. So then.....why stay an air cooled vw motor? So..... Now I have a Jap spec mazda klze v6. All aluminum, double o...