The northkona SCXii Raptor pre-runner.

[fr8cture]

Wow that bumper is awesome!

[northkona]

Originally Posted by fr8cture

Wow that bumper is awesome!

Cheers ! , Ive started building the mount for it with a skid to look like the front of an IFS , I'll post pics when its done.

[Maddog Madigan]

Great design, welds
It would be great if you showed some pics of that holy grail of a welder you have. It shows your talent has stepped up a bit. Not saying a machine makes you, you have always made killer rigs in the past. Now you have the upper hand. Great build so far, me likeey

[northkona]

Originally Posted by Maddog Madigan

Great design, welds
It would be great if you showed some pics of that holy grail of a welder you have. It shows your talent has stepped up a bit. Not saying a machine makes you, you have always made killer rigs in the past. Now you have the upper hand. Great build so far, me likeey

Thanks mate , I have to agree with you , looking at some of my first scratch built stuff, its pretty rough ! (but still surviving !)
I'll try to do a vid of the welder in action, maybe put a camera inside the booth , see how that works .
I think I am just a fool with a cool tool !

[northkona]

A little more done on the Hinged body setup , I think it needs a bit more tube work on the rear bumper, some more stainless fab work to do. The external bolts on the body will be a bit more discreet with maybe a stainless plate on the outside , yes , I'm making this up as I go.










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[northkona]

A couple more tubes added to the rear, much more how I want it to look , 3mm and 6.3mm tube . I try to keep the fishmouth joins nice and tight to limit filler and just fusion weld.









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[northkona]

I needed a fuel cell to fill the gap between the chassis rails so I fabbed one out of 0.5mm titanium sheet.















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[King James]

Awesome works as always. I'd love to have a welder around the house, but a laser welder. You have just upped the game.

[CM9000]

Originally Posted by BigSki

laser welder in your shop- you win.

some jewlers use laser welders to resize rings. you could probably get one.

nice welds btw. gotta be difficult to do that on small stuff. I don't have the eyes for it.

[northkona]

Cheers, CM9000 but the welder has a 15x scope on it so weary old eyes aren't a problem (like mine !)

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[northkona]

I wasn't happy with the size of the fuel cell and it needed a filler, so cut weld and fab some more titanium. There wasn't a ton of room for the rear wheel to articulate so the extension that has the filler on it ended up a pretty weird shape.







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[Travis Dewey]

That's a nice build! Keep up the good work

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[northkona]

I needed something else to dress up the fuel cell so a tube cage was fabbed up. I used 3mm tube fishmouthed and a couple of bits of solid wire.









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[mjderstine]

what in the what?!

you gotta be kidding me. coolest shop tool ever!!


very well done.

[saddlesore]

You have the most awesomest builds dude. Seriously. Well done!

[Robs07junk]

Hell Of A Build There Sir !

[Jack_Norfolk]

What are your plans for paint? So you have a scheme in mind or just all black?

It could be worse

[northkona]

Originally Posted by Jack_Norfolk

What are your plans for paint? So you have a scheme in mind or just all black?

It could be worse

No plans, maybe just ratty black with race number and decals. There are too many blue ones !

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[northkona]

Time to start on the sliders and a double shear mount for the trailing arms. The left side has come out the way I wanted, now all I need is a duplication machine to do the right !
Haha, all good templates were made.
Its all 0.6mm titanium sheet, and im still using that stinkin laser welder ...

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[northkona]

Another scale item added to the build , functional bump stops. 6mm, 4mm tube, a 3mm bolt and washer and a biro spring.

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