Damn, ran out of beer

Progress today was slower today than I would have liked. Started off by stopping in at the steel supplier, not only did they not have what I needed they also were being jerks abouts it. I was less than thrilled with them and I think it may be the last time I use them. Next up, and the second setback of the day, I had to cut off the rear end and redesign it on the fly. The plans I had were based on a live axle, as mines an Independent rear suspension (IRS) I needed to completely ditch the work I had done a few months ago... super lame but I worked it out.

Now for the really annoying part... After I had cut the steel to fabricate the new differential mount my welder crapped out on me. It refused to feed any wire and so I couldn't do anything with it. I cleaned up a bit, hopped in the car and ran to Harbor Freight. When I got there it was 7:02, any guesses on when they close??? I had to beg to get them to swap out my welder but they did so horay.

When I got back to working in the garage I had blown 2 hours of prime time work time. I persisted and got the rear end mounted and bolted into place. It all came out really well in the end and I believe it will be stronger in the end....

Differential mounted, remaining bit of threaded rod will be cut off once I'm happy with the placement.

Front end of differential with drive shaft mocked up in place

Back end of the differential 

My goal to get this thing rolling in a month is looking good, neighbor offered top push me around if I do!

Three beer kinda night

Good evening loyal readers 

I had a little time today after work and seemed to find myself in the garage early enough to make some progress on the build. There won't be any pictures in this post - there just wasn't much to look at...

Tonight's progress was mostly on suspension and rear end components. In the few times I've had a chance to get some work done this past week I removed the front suspension from the donor including the brakes and hubs. Tonight I got a good 3 hours in and pulled the differential, suspension, and brake from the back end. 

I put the differential up on the build table and kind of located it where I think it will go, next step will be to mock it up and tack weld it in place. The big hurdle will be trying to figure out how exactly I'll pull that part off.......

As a final note, the RX7 will never roll again, sad day.