75 Jimmy build FOOLSIZE (time to wheel)

[bmxbryant9]

Just read through your build... love to the truck and glad you are ok. That was one hell of an accident.

Thanks man! We gotta wheel sometime! It has been a blast to build and an awesome hobby to get into. The accident was nuts but I'm nearly fully recovered and have been back at training for a week now. I'm set back about 7 weeks from where I left at so it's easy getting back into it so far

 

[bmxbryant9]

We went to the ultra 4 nationals last weekend in Reno and it was awesome! The gomez brothers are nuts and the course they were racing was pretty crazy too.

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[bmxbryant9]

Amanda and my younger sister in front of Shannon Campbell's car, trying to be monster girls

 

[bmxbryant9]

I'm also in the process of getting a new truck

 

[sreidmx]

I'll just leave this here..
Heee heee...

 

[skunked]

I think you shou send those to me first, need to make sure they fit right

 

[sreidmx]

Hahhaha lol! I'll send you the foam version..

 

[skunked]

That's no fun

 

[sreidmx]

He's fun... @charity case

Devilish good looks.. knows how to run a plasma table.. what more could a guy want?

 

[bmxbryant9]

Boom! I'm stoked to venture onto a new part of the truck. @sreidmx I can't wait to get this under the truck!

 

[skunked]

Can wait to see it linked

Who's doing the welding Zak?

 

[sreidmx]

We're going to tig weld all the brackets and Zac is going to do the truck install.

 

[skunked]

We're going to tig weld all the brackets and Zac is going to do the truck install.

It's all bolt in? I thought all those brackets are welded to the axle and frame?

 

[GWeakland620]

Cool

 

[sreidmx]

We're actually pretty excited about this project, we have changed the design of our shock towers, they are now built with the fewest cuts we could com up with and are tabbed internally with bolt sleeves to spread the load over more area of the bolt.

The Dana 60 presented us with the challenge of fitting everything in the small area 4inches. We figured that out also without changing shock geometry from our smaller axle kits.

We really appreciate that Zac was willing to be our guinea pig for this kit! We look forward to continuing to develop more products for this platform!

 

[F.S.F.W]

This is awesome!!!! Glad to hear that you're making a speedy recovery!
Shannon Campbell is a pretty cool guy. I got to meet him in Colorado Springs in 09.

 

[sreidmx]

All of the brackets are weld on, we made some changes from our Dana 44 design to capture more weld area on the axle around the tube.
Here is a pic of the early stages of one side with the shock and link mount.
We use foam board in prototyping we have a cnc foam cutter, this allows fast turnaround for design and it's available in thicknesses that are damn near spot on for plate.
We had to figure out the cutting head but this was before that happened so the edges are feathered a bit. They now come out like you cut it with a razor.

 

[wetoolowdingbangow]

Time for a 3d printer chief!

 

[sreidmx]

We have one already..

 

[secutright]

Time for a 3d printer chief!

We've got one sitting on the desk in my hobby room. The foam cutter is much more efficient for larger scale parts. Printing something like this on a 3d printer would take days, I can cut out the entire bracket set from foamboard in 10 minutes. Also very cheap for when I screw something up in the design. Sheet of foam is 99¢, vs a plasma cut piece of steel that could easily become a $50+ mistake...