pic: Team 3572 Chassis Project

[MrBasse]

Design isn't totally done yet. We were thinking of cantilevering the front and rear wheels and running dead axles with a support block inside the frame rail to make it solid. We would also use smooth shank fasteners.

We have never done this before, so our big fear is building something with weak points. That's why we plan on building it now and refining until 2016. The brackets around the center drive portion are to keep everyone happy, the big debate has started with us between cantilevering the whole thing or keeping those in to make sure the hex shafts stay aligned.

The belts miss the CIMs by .100 gap.

A major goal of this was to be able to build it with what we have in our shop currently. It's killing me that we have to send the rails off somewhere to get them machined for us as we don't have capacity to do it ourselves (a drill press just isn't that accurate, and drills don't make very good holes for bearings).