Up until now, we have mostly been a KOP drive base shop. KOP on Steroids has been our main chassis for the last few years. We are now looking into switching it up and moving to WCD.
Here is are a couple of renders of our first attempt.
I am not a CAD master by any means, this is done by one or more of our students. I am going to ask them to follow up on any/all questions and suggestions.
We had originally thought we would try to have a single drive belt contained in the frame rails, but found that a single serpentine belt needed to wrap around idler pulleys that were way smaller than the minimum recommended by Gates. So, now we plan on using one internal to, and one just inside the frame rail.
Any comments, critiques, questions, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Full size images can be viewed
here and
here.