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> I built this !, show off what you tinker with other than 914's
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post Sep 1 2022, 12:20 AM
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I love a good project and now that the 914 is done and has a great new owner I can fully focus on the next build. Well its kinda been my main project since 2019 but I couldnt say that out loud around the 914. For me its the ultimate diy thing except for maybe building your own house from scratch.

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The frame and suspension is based on the Haynes book "Build your own sports car on a budget"

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The engine is a five cylinder NA from a Volvo 850 GLT mated to a manual M90 gearbox from the Volvo 960. Uprights and rear diff/axles are from a Ford Sierra/Mercur.

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The bodywork is all my own idea, 1.2 mm 1050 alu sheet. I built myself an english wheel and bought a cheap beadroller and slightly more expensive shrinker/stretcher. Doing the body myself added about a year to the project time.

What remains to be done is fenders (road legal requirement sadly) and all the gauges/lightning and interior bits.

Two weeks ago was the first time it rolled out of the garage as a new vehicle.

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A few days later after doing some brake adjustments the driver got to try some braaap.

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Those short drive were hugely motivating to get the rest done and hopefully get it roadlegal during next spring. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


What are you building thats not a 914? Show it off in this thread wether its woodworking or something else. I love to see other people being creative.

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post Sep 1 2022, 12:37 AM
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Great work and impressive skills
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post Sep 1 2022, 03:52 AM
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post Sep 1 2022, 05:50 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) Really impressive! Love the Seven on steroids vibe, going fenderless or cycle style?


Eggcrate grille with an old-school badge or prancing moose?

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post Sep 1 2022, 06:20 AM
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Bad to the bone!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) Going to be a whole lot of fun
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post Sep 1 2022, 01:27 PM
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Nice - love the aluminium fab! Great job!

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Started this Norton Commando Copper Cafe back around 2012. Other projects keep taking priority and preventing completion. Someday!

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post Sep 1 2022, 05:02 PM
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Let’s start with this Yamaha XS400 Cafe Racer
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post Sep 1 2022, 10:10 PM
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Oh wow both the NC and XS look great. I dont have a bike licence but if I did it would be a cafe racer or sports tourer type of bike for me. Always had a wierd soft spot for the early VFR800.
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post Sep 1 2022, 10:15 PM
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QUOTE(Bullethead @ Sep 1 2022, 01:50 PM) *

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) Really impressive! Love the Seven on steroids vibe, going fenderless or cycle style?


Eggcrate grille with an old-school badge or prancing moose?

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I have to have fenders to be roadlegal sadly otherwise fenderless would be awsome just for the looks. Going with the cycle style both front and rear is the plan.

as for the grille thats still undecided, probably no badge in the front, might get a lasercut script style SuperFive thing on the rear at a later stage.
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post Sep 3 2022, 01:04 PM
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That is way too cool Mats. Big Volvo fan myself, I have a '98 S70T5 and a '78 242.
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post Sep 20 2022, 05:44 AM
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QUOTE(Mueller @ Sep 3 2022, 09:04 PM) *

That is way too cool Mats. Big Volvo fan myself, I have a '98 S70T5 and a '78 242.


Nice pair of cars. My dad was all Volvos untill 5 years ago when he got a Subaru figuring it would be his last car. My first car I remember us having was a yellow 142, then it was a dark green (metallic) 245. After that he got a 440 GL and then a 940 with the low pressure turbo. I guess growing up with Volvos is why I'm not that interested in them myself, other brands was always "cooler" But the five cylinder is a nice sounding engine. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Sep 20 2022, 11:43 AM
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Not as impressive as Mat's project. This is a 3d printed double track railroad bridge for the model railroad club I belong to. It is in HO scale and is 44 inches long.

The bridge is designed after this one outside of Pittsburgh crossing Brunots Island.

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post Sep 20 2022, 03:10 PM
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Great look bridge!

How many spools did you use for that?
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post Sep 20 2022, 04:50 PM
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QUOTE(Mueller @ Sep 20 2022, 05:10 PM) *

Great look bridge!

How many spools did you use for that?


About 1.5 spools. Many parts were printed but not used as I kept adjusting sizes and lengths as well as pieces where something went wrong.
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post Sep 21 2022, 01:00 AM
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Awesome, I would hate to 3D model that thing tho. That would take a few hours.
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post Sep 22 2022, 02:43 AM
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I got introduced to airplanes at the young age of 5. I had no idea how much that would mean to me through out my life. My father worked as an electrician at LAX doing maintenance on a flight line. Apparently he had heard of an event that had to do with the Northrup YB49, the flying wing. He gathered us kids up and took us out to the end of Ontario airport runway and we got to see the big bomber take off on it's last flight. It was going to be scrapped. Now that I think about it, must it have been heartbreaking for Jack Northrup having to scrape 13 of the airplane of his dreams. I don't recall my father telling us about the plane and I don't think I would have understood but I do recall seeing a dark horizontal line approaching from way down the runway with lots of black smoke (it had 8 jet engines) and they looked like they were burning coal. The black line just kept getting bigger and bigger.
So I have always been interested in airplanes. My favorite propeller driven plane is a F-82. Essentially a twin fuselage P-51.
I have been building foam board RC models. One is an F-82. They don't make a kit for the F-82 so I used 2 P-51 kits to produce a n F-82. I also have a wing that's wing span is 71". The F-82's wing span is 63" long

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The last flight of the YB-49 happened in1953. I believe that the YB-49 was the last wing to receive jet motors until the B-2. They are about the same size and Jack Northrup was taken to see the B-2 before he passed.
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post Sep 22 2022, 05:44 AM
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Cool, I have always been an airplane nerd since I was young. I got into RC's as a teenager, first with a glider and then with methanol and then around my 30's just when electric started being a viable option. Favorite prop plane is a tricky one as its shared between the Hawker Tempest and Mosquito. The Tempest for its V2 huntin abilities and the Mosquito because of its development historym being a "wooden underdog" to becoming the plane that would perform all the tasks given to it from long distance mail haulage to precison bombing and nightfighting.

I love the last few years development in foamboard rc planes, often find myself watching flighttest on youtube and their mad builds.
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post Sep 22 2022, 05:54 AM
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Back when I was into motorcycles, I made a carbon/kevlar tank for a custom SV650 I built. It ended up being featured in Cycle World.


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post Sep 22 2022, 08:55 AM
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