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| ~10' from outside rear tire edge to rear tire edge. The wheel shrouds/fenders push it out to about 11' total width for fitting through a doorway reference.
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| Posted 6/3/2019 6:08:23 AM |
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Do you guys know what size screen this is in the cockpit? I'm pretty sure I can get this video you want running in startup and have some light voice commands as well.
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| Posted 6/3/2019 8:39:07 AM |
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Pretty sure it's close to a 7" screen, but I can check on closer to spec measurements if needed... I was planning on loading it as a background gif on a headunit setup I was contemplating there, but I was undecided on maybe doing a carputer with a Thrustmaster Cougar MFD incorporated to get it closer to the screen used setup.
Would have to redo the MFD to light up red instead of green, but that might not be too difficult...
They seemed to really use the thrustmaster gear in production, so why not do the same in ours... 
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| Posted 6/3/2019 6:04:38 PM |
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| that is a nice find! also I was looking at your suspension design. do you know what joints you plan on using on your 4 link? heim can transfer a lot of vibration. we have been using duraflex on the last few jeep builds and they have been working out very well and are easily rebuildable.
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| Posted 6/4/2019 7:02:56 AM |
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The rear trailing arms will use heims at the axle end and poly bushings at the frame mount locations... with the large rear tires soaking up a lot from the road this should be reasonable compliance for the ride while having good articulation of the rear, but I'm not expecting lexus like comfy long road trips.
The front I'm planning poly bushings at the body ends of the a-arms and I haven't settled on the ball joint ends yet at the spindles, but have a couple options selected and they will be heavy duty for sure... just deciding how much articulation and ease of maintenance I want to go there.
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| Posted 6/4/2019 1:16:34 PM |
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As I get closer to parting up the suspension and chassis on the jig in the shop I needed to close in on the strut/airbag part of the picture. I reached out to the company who made the original parts, but really we are dealing with 3000 lbs less vehicle in this design, with the rear end/tires/wheels alone being over 1000 lbs lighter than the screen vehicle's.
So I have a alternate budgeted plan of attack in place depending on the numbers they come back with.
In the cockpit you'll see in the lower part of the center stack there is a controller section that I think we can mimic with an airbag commander.
this is what I've homed in on... that works with multiple ride height settings and pressures within a kit including those needed parts.
and making the 4-bolt Apache style faceplate to mount it to match the MFD above should be easy enough.
The alternate solution involves the left side panel and either a different controller display setup, or even another smaller lcd screen with phone style controller app and the toggle switches with our added guards for the controls.
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| Posted 6/4/2019 2:08:05 PM |
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| I really like the idea of using that screen as an air controller. I was wondering the best way to utilize that will be. Alot better than a static image
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| Posted 6/4/2019 3:35:56 PM |
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I'm referring to putting it where this lower panel resides...
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| Posted 6/4/2019 5:07:49 PM |
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| yes that is the screen I was talking about. the controller would be an excellent fit there.
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| Posted 6/4/2019 5:11:00 PM |
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| after looking at your close up I don't think the 4:3 aspect ratio I mentioned is the best fit. im thinking a 16:9 will work great. the screen is more widescreen than not compared to the mfd controller. I think programming the outer touch screen with the buttons and the inner to have the other functions will be the fix.
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