ph2t
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I just took it out the front of my house and let her rip on the concrete. Damn this thing is fast! :p I forget that the size of the wheels contribute to the land speed. The tread on the rear wheels grip the concrete like nothing else.
Anyways, suffered the first casualty of the R&D process, lost my front right wheel!
Gotta look at other ways of securing it!ph2t.
Ok then, the gods have given me a bit of time this week to work on this puppy and I’m now a little bit closer to finishing.
The first problem was the non-flush headlight mount, I trialled the sanding down of the leds to an angle to allow a flush mount but that didn’t really work out that well. So instead I used a bit of bluetak to hold the led in place so that the angle of view went straight out through the headlight area on the shell.
With the bluetak being used as a jig I could then dab a little bit of superglue on the area under the led and then let it set. After about 10 minutes I removed the bluetak and the led is good to go.
Now with that done for both leds I know need to start putting it al together. One week later I managed to build another little DCDC converter board (as most of you know I use this little circuit to power all my light kits from the main PCB battery) and now I’m just putting it all together.
Soon I will be finished with this. Still gotta put the rear brakelights in :).
ph2t.
holy sh1t!, you’re banned from MRCC? you ARE mrcc. sh1t dude,…..
sad to hear…camshaft, feel free to post your questions here dude, there’s lots of members in the know here…
ph2t.
Ok then well I’ve been working on the headlights and it’s gonna be tricky to be able to mount them properly.
One thing is the the shell is quite translucent and if I’m gonna use some very bright white leds, I don’t want their light bleeding out of the chassis in all directions.
So I’ve started coating the inside of the shell with a thick black enamel. It will need two coats to even out the finish and give me total blackout. I’ve done this before onm other cars with great results.
Incidentaly you can see the dark blue colour the shell was before I ran out of that colour and ended up using the lighter peal blue…Work well all things considering…
I need to apply another coat to ensure clean lines around the lights.
I don’t know if many of you add lights to your cars. I like to ’cause they look cool and you can do some serious driving at night and at times in pitch black. It’s freaky to know that the lights on you car are more than enough to be able to see half the room.
I’ll need to let this enamle dry for a few days before gluing white leds to it.
ph2t.
Edited by – ph2t on 14 December 2003 01:12:38
