Pacman rod

[mind-9]

Here is the frame it's almost finished just put the connections for the wheels then sand it and give it some color

first got to get some styreen rods

Gr
Dirk

[James2]

Some great build'n here!

[Bill Edman]

nice work

[crazyrichard]

awsome and thnx for the screwdriver tip ! i got a bunch of those and never use them .. potential !!!!!!!!

[mind-9]

Hello,

Thanks for the great response, did do some work on the rod this week.

First did the sprkplug cabels.

The distributor is made from aluminum.
I wanted the cabels to have real boots i,t did worked but is a hell of a job so small (wonder how they make it ).


And the result only put some wire looms but thats for later.

The Suspension.
I want to make the rod as realistic as possible so i ordered real Coil Over Shocks and use the hub from a Corvette.

This is the original suspension.

This are the parts for the coil over.

And the finished product (and it works ).

I made the suspension connection from steel rod. ( see the yellow arrows).

This are the parts i made and did a dryfit to see if it al fit.


And here with the brake disk,now only make the lower control arm (yellow arrow) and some small parts then take it apart and finish the other side and make the front suspension.

see you

Gr
Dirk

[lazlow]

looking great keep at it, alot of inventive stuff. cool.

[mind-9]

Thanks guys for the nice response,

Ok did some work on the front axel.
I first wanted to make the axel from styreen rod, but than i found an old axel in my sparebox (safe's me some work ).

Well here it is , this is a dryfit just to look if the size is right.

Than i had to make the brackets (i think you call them brackets) i made them from 0,5 mm styreen.

Was tough to get them the same.

Here i fit them to the axel, i put a small piece of styreen (see the black arrow) between it to keep the distance for the rod ends.

Fit the rod ends, i put some bolts and nuts i like to put a detail to this rod so it will look right.

Place the rod's.

All this parts are metal or aluminum.

Also place the front brake's (the arrow shows the place where the brake caliper will be fit)still have to masure where it will be placed, so i kept the plate long.

Here a little dryfit (i can't fit it jet waiting for some parts) .


From top also did some work on the interior.

And here are the customers to look how the work is done ;) :).

See you guys next time.

Gr
Dirk

[MikeyB08]

I love this build. Such a great idea and different. Keep it up!!

[DrKerry]

Lookin good so far!!!!

[mind-9]

Hi,

Well the chassis is coming along well, first tell you how i made the brake caliper

This are brakedisks from an Toyota MR2 model now i only need the calipers (purple arrow).
So the disk had to go. (black arrow).

Here i put the two parts together the only thing i had to do was making space for the disk.

And here the final diskbrake.

Also worked on the front four bar link suspension.

First drill the holes for the rod ends.

Fit the rod ends to the bars.

It even have the adjust nuts on it (real small).

And there you go the first side (dryfit).

Ok now do the other side then i can paint the chassis and fit everything>

Edited April 28, 2013 by mind-9

[mind-9]

The chassis is coming along fit the front suspention and finished the rear suspention to
Some photo's

First draw the suspention struts (i think you call them like this :-/ ? ).
It's made from 3 pieces off 0,5mm styreen.

Here it's mounted to the frame, still need to do some work to get it right.

Finished the right rearsuspention to.


Here i put everything together (dryfit) with staples this will be replaced with nut and bolts.


And put the engine to see if the rear wheels align with the axels to the gearbox.
Everything fit nicely so now just sand the chassis paint it and then put it together.

See you next time

[DrKerry]

Lookin good!!!

[Bill Edman]

awesome

[crazyrichard]

pffft this is just awsome and geourgeous

[mind-9]

Update,

I finaly sand the chassis and give it a color.

Fit the rear and front suspention.


No dryfit now.

Even put rings behind the nut

Here it is the completed chassis.

Put the engine in.

Did some work on the driveshaft (from the sparebox) and the steeringhouse.

Here i put a piece off styreen rod cos it was to short.

And test fitted the driveshaft.

Well that's it, now working on the plumbing and brake system
O and finally start with the body YESSS.

Gr
Dirk

[DrKerry]

Very kool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mind-9]

Well started with the body (just can't wait).

This are the first steps for the body i reinforced it with rods.

So it's not a big update but he , this took me about three hours to get it right .

See you next time.
O and don't mind the rear right wheel it's a little out of line but they are not fitted jet
Gr

Dirk

[bryan_m]

this is the first time i got to look at this topic, and i gotta say......i love it! what a great idea! nice work

cheers

bryan

[Wonderbread Kustomz]

Man, this is looking better every time... Nice work on the body

[mind-9]

thanx for the nice replies,

Well still working on the body (show you next time) today the aluminum pipes arrived so started with the exaust.

Lot of bending and checking if it fit and finaly the first is ready.

Hope you like it (4 pipes to go ).

Happy building.

Gr
Dirk

[Mr mopar]

Neat look rod......keep up the good work.

[knarf]

this is waaayyy kool!

[Del Austin]

Loving this project. BTW was the Pac Man rod a redo of the Mork from Ork rod? Was in a car show in LA that had the "Mork from Ork" mobile in it in the late 70's with my go-kart and to me the Pac Man rid and the Mork vehicle looked the same other than the body.

[lower99]

Oooh man.........THIS IS AWESOME!

[Eric N.]

WOW, TOO COOL!

Thanks,for sharing.

Eric