SXOR single seater build

hokie_yj · May 8, 2018

jp fan said:
Congrats man, ready for the Southern Shine Crawl?

It should be ready by then but our wonderful management at work decided Memorial Day weekend would be an excellent time to have a shutdown. I'm planning on being there the weekend after though.

hokie_yj · May 8, 2018

smbroady82 said:

Thank you!

hokie_yj · May 8, 2018

dwa2469 said:
Man that thing is nice!! I bet she goes like no other

Thank you! I'm hoping it will actually work ok. Lol. I know being rear engine it will take a little time to get used to his it's going to act on climbs and stuff.

zeb3 · May 8, 2018

This thing has turned out amazing. Great job.

hokie_yj · May 8, 2018

Thank you!

ceaetna454 · May 8, 2018

Can't wait to see some Harlan videos of this thing! It is so compact and a very capable drivetrain , great job. booyang

hokie_yj · May 9, 2018

Thank you! I can't wait to see what it will do. I'm pretty sure it will outperform my driving abilities. Haha.

hokie_yj · May 11, 2018

Finally got it out of the garage for the first time yesterday. It felt good to be behind the wheel.

It's going to be interesting to see how it does. I don't think there will be much crawling. Haha. Going to have work on the brakes some more, they're non-existent right now.

https://youtu.be/rR3N7x86alo

https://youtu.be/nKV6YSxamN0

wizzo · May 11, 2018

congrats man! seen the video's on instaface social medias :driving:

ibrokeit · May 11, 2018

What year is it!?! Long time coming!

hokie_yj · May 11, 2018

Haha! Yeah, it's been a minute. Like 5.5 years or something? Lol.

Thanks guys!

stuftmunky2k · May 13, 2018

So much want man. Wish i would have built a single seater besides the goat built jhf chassis hell of a job.

hokie_yj · May 14, 2018

Thank you!

muddinmetal · May 14, 2018

hokie_yj said:
Haha! Yeah, it's been a minute. Like 5.5 years or something? Lol.

Thanks guys!

7 if you think about it

hokie_yj · May 14, 2018

Yeah, I bought the chassis in '11, but it was late '12 before I ever started working on it. It sat in storage until I bought my house/shop.

hokie_yj · May 28, 2018

Getting the finishing touches done to get it ready for this weekends first trip out. I'm heading to Harlan Friday morning.

I was going to cut some new skins, and I probably still will. But in the interest of time I trimmed the original set that came with the chassis to fit some of the small changes I made for now. I painted them with black plasti-dip just like I did in the hood. We'll see how it holds up. Got the right side finished and on today. The left side is cut and painted, just need to install the dzus fasteners and mount it up.

I still plan to make some nice dimpled aluminum panels to fill the gap between the B and C pillars on both sides as well as the back section of the chassis.

I also made up some guards for the lower schraders on my ORIs. I copied these from a post I saw somewhere on line a few years ago. I only put them on the front shocks because they hang down low and are pretty vulnerable to rocks. The rears set on top of the axle and are pretty well protected.