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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744487 January 14th 2019 11:42 pm
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Thanks lads, appreciate the feedback. I'm so pumped about my van that I'm dreaming about it and wake up with a cheeky smile on my face coz I've just had another mad idea:) And I'm full of them! It's just to make them reality I need time and some $$$...

So here's another thing i've done that I was waiting for ages, I got my drop spindles in!!!
Apparently my 92' G20 is some sort of transition model and besides that there's no lowering kits for G20. Plenty stuff for G10, G30, but nothing for G20, and in particular year 92'. So my brother in law (he's my mechanic for more complicated things that just DIY) found out that spindles are the same as 87' Suburban. Then we had to find a dealer that ships to Canada and can do returns in case they won't fit. Then I had to wait for weekend where I don't have to go to work and he has some space for my van. I wanted 3in drop spindles but beggars can't be choosers so I got whatever was available- 2in ones. And after we put them in I was thanking my luck coz with 3in I had to have my brake hoses replaced to longer ones. Due to higher wheel position brake caliper position is moved down a bit on drop spindles, therefore when I turned the wheels fully I had just just about enough of brake hose length.
On the same note I changed my upper and lower ball joints and brake pads. As I was doing everything myself (under supervision of proper mechanic:) it took us a bit too long and we didn't have enough time to lower rear end. Next time we'll cut 1/4ish turn of front springs to lower another inch or so and take out one leaf spring to sag the back a bit. After that another lowering session will be airbags:)

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P.S. My summer tires are 2in less in diameter so when snowboarding season is over I'll have another inch of drop.


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744528 January 16th 2019 3:03 am
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Full swing at my dash again. Cut my gauge area from double fiberglass plates, 3.2mm overall thickness. Marked where my gear will sit and cut a rim on which my gauge plate will be bolted. I'll be stretching a material on my dash part (same way speaker boxes are made) so I screwed that rim on to a plate for stiffness. I put some tape on that plate first for resin not to stick to it, it will be removed once I'm finished with material and layers of fiberglass. This way I'll have an exact size rim for my gauge plate to bolt on.

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Before cutting plates I took my screens apart. I don't need that plastic frame around and menu buttons were at the back. I need them at the front for brightness etc.

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All those holes are for sinking M2 bolts for mounting the gear and mounting the plate to dash part. They will be covered by carbon kevlar later. More holes for 3mm LEDs for my dash lights.

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I'll be sinking my gauge plate approx 4 inches deep from the front of my dash part, at least that's the plan so far. I'll do some brainstorming in the van later when I see how much space I have there. It'' look smth like this:

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And of course I couldn't resist to power everything up to check and hooked on one of my racing drone cameras to check the screens:) Each side of the screen are their menu buttons, green LEDs for indicators, from the gauge bottom right white LED for engine warning (didn't have yellow and generally it is not coming on often:) and beside it there's a square hole for gauge's button to zero ODO and for setting the gauge. Bottom left red LED for e-brake warning and right beside it blue one for high beams. They look bright enough in the picture due to camera, but not as bad to the eye. Of course if you point them directly to your eyes they will be blinding, they're LEDs, but my gauge plate won't be pointing square to my face so it should be fine, besides that they are not lit all the time when you driving. But I'll check them once in the van in the dark and daylight, I might have to dim them somehow.

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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744531 January 16th 2019 9:10 am
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Nice!


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744538 January 16th 2019 9:17 am
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Alright, that is really cool!!!


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744554 January 16th 2019 11:01 pm
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Just read all of this so far, and all I can say is....DAMN DUDE ! You do great work and I can not wait to see more !


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744555 January 16th 2019 11:46 pm
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Thanks lads!
@ Uncle Fester- welcome to my show:)


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744720 January 24th 2019 5:16 pm
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That's super cool, man!


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Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744888 February 01st 2019 10:28 am
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Damn there is some cool ideas going on here. 🤗

Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van
RoboforcerX2000 #744931 February 02nd 2019 11:55 pm
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Very nice.


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