sunnuntai 24. maaliskuuta 2013

Trouble!!!
I got the new windshield back from the shop. BUT it was supposed to be tinted green and it does not fit that  good :(
Looks good from a distance but the corners...
I´ll have to grind those off :(
I also tried to find some place for the front shocks. Not easy...
Here I should remove a part of the frame near the spring pocket and I´m not sure if the shock would still fit :/  The length of the shock is 42 cm.
And  the exhaust... I need to modify it to get more room for the tires and the airbags.
And the summer is coming fast :o






torstai 21. maaliskuuta 2013

I painted the front air bag mounts:
I also modified the lighter/ash tray to hide the pressure gauges:


torstai 7. maaliskuuta 2013

Now I´m working with the front bags...
First I removed the coil spring and took some measurements.
Here are the parts for the cup and lower control arm attachment:
I´m going to bolt the cup through the hole for the original shock.
And heres the lower plate:
And the bag in place:

Next I´m going  to weld the lower bag plate to the lower control arm plate, but I still need to cut some more tubing to fill a small gap between them ;)
And then I need to figure out where to put the shocks... :/


sunnuntai 3. maaliskuuta 2013

I´ve been working with the air suspension wiring. Now it´s almost finished,  I just need to connect the valves to the control box and the + and - wires to the cars system.
I used this picture as a reference:
And heres my system. I used a car audio parts to get it more simple.
Btw, heres the fixture for the electrics,  compressors and the tank:


torstai 21. helmikuuta 2013

Finally a new update!
I installed the valves to the tank.
And then fit the whole package in the trunk, seems to fit ok.
I painted the cups for the air bags...
And installed the rear bags to check everything is fine. I took the old spring out and just screwed the upper cup to the bolt on the frame.
Looks low enough.
Now I need to modify the exhaust to get more clearance :( One modification leads to an other, and summer is coming...



sunnuntai 10. helmikuuta 2013

I took my bike to a turbo - specialist... Lets´s see if I get my motivation when the engine runs ;)
Then I had some trouble with the Buick vent windows..
The window handle won´t fit because the angle of the whole vent window assembly changed...

torstai 7. helmikuuta 2013

I made the cups for the rear bags. Of course I fu**ed the lowers up, but fortunately I had just tacked the pieces torgether, so it was easy to fix.
Heres a picture of the rear spring:
And the cups with air bag..
I hope my  measurements are correct  ;)