Hi! New guy from San Diego,Cal.

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Hello everyone. I am new here.

I am building a Hayabusa powered RT that is the usual configuration but mostly in the shape of a streamliner.

Being 6'4'' I find it tough to buy cars so I decided to build the car around me.   Since I have a spine injury I am using the most comfy seat and position that I can come up with.

Also, I am gas welding it. Yeah, that's right. I got a good deal on a Victor torch set and decided that I was going to build the entire trike using it. One big reason was that I can use it to heat and bend tubing so I can give the body the right shape that I like.

I am planning on using a fiberglass body and also air conditioning! Yup! It will be sealed using a canopy and here in Southern California it can get pretty hot while driving inland, especially in the desert. I am planning many drives.

Oh, and I also figured out how to make it tilt. Sensors and a minicomputer will take inputs and control the tilt via an electric servo motor. I have already written the code and built a small prototype of the tilt system that I mounted on a board and tested while sitting in the passenger side of my wife's lexus (the one that my knees hit the dash even with the seat all the way back). It works! It is such a great feeling to see the little motor tilting it while she drives "S" turns in a parking lot or on the street taking turns.

I'll post photos and update as I make progress. I have the bottom of the chassis done and the motor is in. I have a machine shop helping me with the swing arm mounts and the front spindles.

Ok, that's all for now. I hope to see other trikes on this board. I just registered so I'm going to look around.

Take care,

Greg

[3verse]

Welcome! Looking forward to the update pics!

[stretchmobileski]

I'm 6' 4" also. Build it any way you want. The sky is the limit. Interested in how you are going to do A/C with the Hayabusa.

[captainamerica]

Welcome, I will be very interested in seeing how your tilt system works, its the dream for vehicle cornering but its hard to design suspension that allows it to happen.

[darrel]

Yeah, power to you Backinjuryguy. Most of us find building a vehicle with relatively simple conventional suspension very challenging. Hope you can pull it off. Love to see it.

[DaveJ98092]

I am not so sure I would trust my life on an oxy acetylene weld job unless I had done that type of welding for a lifetime. Penetration of both tubes evenly and completely is a challenge enough with MIG.

I would practice on two small sections of tubing, weld it all the way around and then split the tubes thru the weld to see if both are mixed well with the filler rod. Too many times I have seen what looked like a good weld only to find that lack of penetration made it like it was glued together, not like it was cast in place.

Now Tack welding with the oxy acetylene and then MIG/TIG welding it up is OK.