What's up guys new project time, alright, so redbull is having a soapbox derby event in Dallas lucky for us because we're right next to Dallas. So we need to start building our frame and body to compete in this race yeah. So basically the idea is, I don't know if you guys have seen the spongebob movie, but we are going to build the paddy wagon from the movie. Essentially, what this competition is? It's a soapbox derby, but like it's not really just trying to be fastest.

It also has to do to create creativity, points just design elements. How good it looks. I mean the craziest and wildest things you can think of to put on wheels lucky for us, we've kind of done some stuff like that in the past. So this is right up our alley.

So what do we need to do? First to get basically working on this thing? Alright, so we need to layout we're doing a metal frame because there are jumps and these, if you're, really sturdy, I'm going about four and four feet wide and then six feet long and then we're gon na mount a double seat and we got to do all The things necessary to make a rolling chassis, also lightweight yeah. So probably what this video is going to be is we're gon na do the whole rolling chassis, we're gon na plan out the burger, because, essentially, what its gon na be is. We need to be like under 160 pounds, something like that which is pretty light, so we really can't use that much steel and the foam is going to get really heavy really fast. So, let's just get right to work.

We cut out all our steel and, let's weld together our main frame, okay guys, so it really doesn't get simpler than that. We made our square frame. We know it's right because we didn't even weld it before we tacked in this last one. We put the square against it, it was perfect.

So now all we need to do is well up the rest of this guys. We got the frame all welded up, go power, sports hooked it up with all the parts we needed to get this thing rolling. We got some tall and skinny tires that will help with the ground clearance and we need which is seven inches, and it will help us get the least rolling resistance, we're going downhill. So let's get these things on and make this frame a roller spinach, basically mounted our tires, getting everything done and we tack welded on all four corners.

So we have our go parents where it's spring or spindles up front and then in the rear. We were just running straight up, five-eighths bolts. We need to cut this thing, needs at least seven inches of ground clearance. We have seven and a half inches.

Basically, we want to have more than seven because we don't want to be right on the threshold just in case there's some weird measuring stuff going on a red bull and then we want to make it as well as possible. So that's how I write at that. Seven and a half just we have a half inch cushion so now. What I'm going to do is we're going to pop the wheels off and well up this up completely.

The carts come a lot of really good. It is a complete roller now and it's gon na be really fast, like there's. Hardly any resistance here and having like a low inertia and our tires is going to be awesome. We are going to be battling weight.

This entire build the calf weight is a hundred and seventy six pounds and right now our frame is a hundred and six pounds. So we need to be really careful. We're only going to add one more support bar where the pedals and bottom steering round goes and then one more support bar under where the seat goes. That way, we can use super super thin, plywood or even like sheet aluminum or something, but really that's gon na leave us about 60 to 50 pounds of paper mache we can work with, and that should be plenty.

You don't really know what, like the square foot, current weight pyramid say is, but let's get to welding are two support bars we're using a go power, sports, gas and brake pedal kit, and they say it basically comes with a machine bolt that all you need to Do is have a little basically round piece and it's gon na mount up perfectly so now all we need to do is we need to figure out how we're gon na mount up this side of our cables to our brake, but that will pretty much dog tie. This finish, doesn't matter, go power, starts pedals and to go power sets brake lines, we had the option of running two brake pedals or just one brake pedal connected to both brakes. We decided just sit for consistency and for drivability, maybe a lot easier to just think about one brake pedal, because this is a race. After all, so yeah, we just mounted them both up here, side by side.

So now, what we're gon na do is we're gon na cut the plywood and see if just the plywood by itself is going to be enough to support the seat, because we really don't want to add any more bars and if we just can use plywood dad Be the best bet, so let's cut that out all right, guys, pilots all notched up and fitted. So now what we need to do is get this thing welded up and then it some paint now you're getting the professional detail, hung up on my mom's planners. We're just going kind of sending it with matte black. I mean we just need not the rust so we'll get it all coated up and reassembly time.

Okay, so the frames painted up now we're getting our Springer spin nose in it's kind of tough to get them lined up, but I am telling you guys, I mean honestly. I prefer just how Springer spindles look when you paint the little Springs of different color. Even more than just how they're springy I mean it, just it looks awesome and they help it's a little bit add a little suspension, and this should really help us on the jumps because normally on the Red Bull cars, usually what you see braking first, is definitely Just the front wheels just cave in, but we got go Powersports gussets and springs, so we should have no problem. Okay, guys like expand on that frame cards completely, but this thing actually turned out awesome.

I usually you see like imperfections, but we're getting a lot better. At welding and stuff so like it actually looks pretty good. So with that being said that just about wraps up faced one of the paddy wagon, I know it doesn't look like a paddy wagon at all, but we're pretty close to that squared dimension, basically pulling in the wheels, helped a lot so yeah we're really happy with How this is looking so the next phase of this build is going to be. We already cut out the plywood, so now I need to do is just throw it on there we're doing.

Basically, I know we're talking about foam before, but now we're thinking of more of a plywood and just chicken wire and then we're going to paper mache over it. They say like copy me as if we did a fair float or something like that. Also, we may say did weight and cost, and paper mache highly outweighs just cutting out layers of foam, even though something's light and low quantities, if it's just all high-volume, it's going to be way too heavy, so also we're like super close to our weight limit. We probably have about 50 pounds of paper mache we can use, so that is going to be difficult for us, but guys this video we're going to try to upload about two weeks before the Red Bull soapbox derby, so be sure to make it out there and Support us, I don't know how it's going to work with it's and everything, but if you know us from YouTube and see us, there definitely say hi, because we're going to be kind of nervous, gon na be like performance and stuff.

It's kind of a big deal, but we're super excited as well. So we'd love to see some of you guys there so long, winded outro, but thank you go Powersports. Thank you guys for watching and stay tuned to see. This thing become a burger.

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