Re: [DMCForum] Stainless frame arrived today (long)
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Re: [DMCForum] Stainless frame arrived today (long)



walter just 2 questions.

Do u have a schedule for people to come and look at it?

And how far is it from your bed?  or does it get its own room?



Andrei



----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
To: "DMCForum" <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:53 PM
Subject: [DMCForum] Stainless frame arrived today (long)


> Being the loud-mouthed sort of guy, I'll tell you all about it.  We
unloaded
> it from the delivery truck and moved it to a pickup truck.  The frame is
> narrow enough that it fit in the back just fine.  All the extra bits
were
> packed beneath a piece of plywood where the fuel tank belongs.  I could
tell
> by looking at the front of the frame while it was still on the delivery
> truck that the driver's side of the crumple tube was a speck higher than
the
> other side.  Once we got it out I could tell that someone either dropped
it
> on that part or maybe had most of the weight of the frame balanced on
the
> nose while hoisting it into the truck.  The damage is limited only to
the
> crumple zone which on this frame simply unbolts.  So straightening it
will
> be easy.
>
> What the frame looks like:  It looks just like the one we saw at the
Memphis
> show only without suspension pieces on it.  If you weren't at Memphis,
check
> out the photos posted at:
> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/lst and then click the
folder
> "Memphis 2002" and then "Pearce".
>
> The engineering looks excellent, but the welds holding it all together
could
> look better.  I'm not going to badmouth the work.  The opinions I heard
at
> Memphis were varied from, "It isn't safe" to "It doesn't need to be
pretty,
> and it won't be visible anyway."  I'm going to take it to a stainless
steel
> fabrication shop that I've done business with before and have them go
over
> it.  There are areas I want to polish such as what is visible in the
engine
> compartment and maybe even all of it if it isn't too much of a hassle.
>
> I was disappointed to see that they used American threads on everything.
I
> would rather see them use metric like was done at the factory.
>
> The front lower control arms look excellent!  Whoever welded those is
> qualified to make jewelry.  For the price, they are going to give the
other
> aftermarket ones a run for their money.
>
> This frame also has the stainless steel trailing arms that do away with
> trailing arm bolts.  To make toe-in adjustments to the rear wheels, you
move
> spacers from one side of the joint to the other.  This is incredibly
> superior to the OEM way of doing it.  My only concern is that the
plastic?
> spacers (washers) they used are rather thick.  I haven't measured
anything
> yet, but it looks like one of these spacers is about twice as thick or
more
> as an OEM alignment shim.  Unless the frame is made dead on the money, I
> would expect to need to find some thinner alignment washers for fine
> adjustment.  I feel this way because when I had my car at Sears for a 4
> wheel alignment, they said that the OEM spacers were too thick and
> instructed me on how to make thinner ones at home which I later
installed.
> If my new frame is like the others that PDC makes, it won't need any
> adjustment (according to them).
>
> I can't find the receipts off hand, but so far I have around $10K spent
on
> the basic frame, all the options and having it delivered.  I will
probably
> spend a few grand more installing it.  I want to repaint all the parts
that
> are being reused, replace the refrigerant lines with R-134a barrier
hoses,
> maybe replace the hard brake & fuel lines with SS, etc.  But for now I
have
> too many other projects in the works that I need to finish first.  Then
I
> need to find a lift that can take the body off the old frame.  I'm
> considering making a set of trusses out of wood supported by 4 bottle
jacks.
> I'll know if I can make that work once I've done the math.  Maybe I'll
just
> get one of those in-home lifts that you can park a second car under.
>
> Walt
>
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