Friday, March 19, 2010

Wide load

We added the two extra bearings, replaced the aluminum axles with extended steel ones (added 15lbs over the aluminum ones unfortunately) and then load tested the rear assembly.

We're happy with both its strength and also the bit of 'suspension' that the slightly flexible chrome moly cantilevered axles give us.

Up to this point we've kept the vehicle in its narrow configuration so it would fit on the dyno and take up less space in the shop. We widened it out for its upcoming first open surface tests.