So guys it looks like the Harsh reality finally hit us... the Xr-3 will not be driving by this Thursday, despite our hard work. When it came down to it, we decided on having a solid presentation and a car with a running engine but not driving. Lance made the official decision and said to leave it till the summer and fall. We made tremendous progress, we mounted our engine and started it up, we mounted our radiator, assembled our steering column, welded out housing to the center tunnel, mounted our tie-rod mounts and placed our rack and pinion on them, we placed our temporary gear stick and decided to leave it like it is now.
Something that held us back other than time, was the half-shafts. It turns our we sent the wrong ones to the machine shop. The ones we sent were for the old VW trans and we needed the new ones in order to fit the bolt pattern. We will be sending those to the machine shop, we will be re-placing our brake lines and we will need to buy a temporary battery for our engine.
I'm very proud of the team as a whole and I'm sure Mr. Waxman and Lance are as well. Lets not let this obstacle slow us down, instead let it be our motivation for the Engineering Extravaganza! Lets show the audience that we don't JUST build a car, we do a lot more than that!
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