Subaru 360 Van Resto-Mod w/Sport Bike Power???....maybe

Pete Gossett said:

In reply to Ben_Modified :

You’re making awesome progress on this one!

Thanks Pete!

Drilling the threaded holes and pressing in studs

Assembled one trailing arm and started laying out the rear suspension placement

I love the wheels!

OjaiM5 said:

I love the wheels!

Thanks, me too!  Can't wait to see them tucked up in the wheel wells.

I have temporarily removed some sheet metal.  This will be modified and reinstalled later.

Why are all my frame rails always filled with pecans??

Progress on the rear suspension. Decided to save the VW torsion housing for another project.  Went with aftermarket mounts and heim joints

More details to follow

Put together some plates to mount the trailing arms to the crossmember via heim joints

Rear coilovers are from the front of a 1st gen miata. Perfect fit!  I used these on the front of my Yamaha R1 Autobianchi micro car also.  I think these will work well here also!

Now that the suspension is done, I am fitting the body to the chassis to determine upper rear spring mounts and cage mount locations

Cut out the wheel wells up front and the arches in the rear to determine new placement

Progress on the new front wheel wells and closing up the old ones

So much awesome! I was watching this on youtube the other day. What happened to the Jeep cab-over thing?

mannydantyla said:

So much awesome! I was watching this on youtube the other day. What happened to the Jeep cab-over thing?

Thanks!  Still trying to get the roof line of the Jeep under 7'.  It will eventually happen, just not in a hurry

Started making connections between the front fender and the van nose.  Coming together nicely

nice

I clicked on this having only read the subject. I immediately said to myself “If this guy runs into any problems he should try contacting that Ben_Modified guy”. It wasn’t until a couple minutes later I realized IT ALREADY WAS YOU!

ebonyandivory said:

I clicked on this having only read the subject. I immediately said to myself “If this guy runs into any problems he should try contacting that Ben_Modified guy”. It wasn’t until a couple minutes later I realized IT ALREADY WAS YOU!

Hahahaha, that made my day.  Sorry for the delay in response, been in Germany for a few weeks

Rear tubs are done. 

Also ran a piece of tubing thru the original torsion housing (which was fairly thin) to provide cage to frame connection spots. The exposed center will serve as a connection point for the motor mounting frame work.