{"id":12,"date":"2007-03-05T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:27:59","slug":"monday-march-5th-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Monday March 5th, 2007."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current project status is that what I would describe as the major mechanical design is completed.\u00c2\u00a0 That is I now know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where the engine &amp; gearbox are going to be located.<\/li>\n<li>Where the driver and passenger will be housed.<\/li>\n<li>Where the wheels are going to be located.<\/li>\n<li>Where the suspension mounting points and dampers are going to be located.<\/li>\n<li>Where the steering rack will be located.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And most importantly of all how to tie all of this together with a structure that is as stiff as possible and has sufficient strength and is not excessively heavy.<\/p>\n<p>In short I&#8217;m at the point where I feel confident enough in the design to go start making it.<\/p>\n<p>The little list above took over a year of thought to resolve to this point, what I&#8217;ve now got is a design for the chassis frame that weighs ~125Kg for the steel tube framework including the roll frame and has a stiffness in excess of 15Kn Per degree which I think is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>So the next thing to be done is to get on with fabricating the frame.<\/p>\n<p>I have a number of tubes that require bending as part of the design, not having the equipment to do this I&#8217;m now in the process of tracking down a company who&#8217;ll do this for a fair price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe current project status is that what I would describe as the major mechanical design is completed.\u00c2\u00a0 That is I&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Monday March 5th, 2007.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-status","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}