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| Does this spark your interest? Kyle is testing out his freshly welded swing-arms while Zach is welding on suspension mounting tabs. |
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| The chassis at 57 pounds with engine mount and no mounting tabs. |
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| A few additional members were added to support lateral suspension forces. The suspension mounting tabs are tacked in as well. |
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| Dean, Matt, and Tucker establishing the correct locations for seat belt mounts. |
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| Ahdi's laser cut steering rack mount. It fit beautifully. |
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| Steering column is supported by sealed bearings. |
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| Lower steering column and a peek at the brake system |
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| Transaxle shifter cable and mounting |
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| Custom shifter with authentic Paul Silva hand painted lettering |
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| Dean removing some material from the transaxle so it will fit in the frame |
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| Our brake is sourced from a Jeep wrangler and came in a plastic housing which wasn't necessary for our purposes. |
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| We weighed the housing and made some steel mounts that were much lighter and slimmer |
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| Zach getting creative with his welding positions |
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| Terry and Ahdi battling with the firewall |
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| The first piece of the body paneling and belly pan |
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| Tim is the head composite specialist. Here he is cutting the panels into separate pieces. |
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| Callie Barker is our head seamstress and is making the safety harness holes larger in our seat cover |
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| Here is the cover with a larger hole |
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| OH... and here is Ahdi testing out the cover at spring insight |
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| Tucker modeling for the nice people |
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| Wheel adapters to convert from the Gravely Trekker hub bolt pattern to a standard Polaris size |
Our goal when designing the rear suspension was to idealize camber and toe. This is very easy with A-arm/H-arm suspension systems but proved to be extremely challenging for a 3-Link semi-trailing arm suspension. We tuned the radius arm lengths and mounting positions for 20-30 hours using Solidworks. The ideal geometry must take camber, toe, track width change, and drive shaft plunge into account.
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| 3-Link swing arm rear suspension |
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| With a wheel in place (before we got the wheel adapters) |
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| Brake rotor mounting. The Gravely Trekker hub was drilled and tapped using a rotary table and the inside of the factory Polaris rotors had to be lathed outward a bit. |
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| Upper control arm caster adjustment spacers |
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| Gas pedal is mounted. The throttle cable and return spring rest between the two chassis tubes out of harms way. |
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| Throttle cable mount |
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| We need raised racing numbers and the carbon fiber should give us at least 5 more horsepower |
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| It gets really hard to keep track of things on a team of 10 |
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| Dean is on the job |
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