Last video you guys where asking about the seats I'm using for this project so here is a link for them on amazon a.co/d/hvVlpAu

I was super hyped about this build all the way up till you started placing the bars for the sides and roof and then I realized you were going to build a high top conversion van. You've got the roof bars a foot+ over your head to make room to get in because you've made the side bars tall enough to make it a 2 story interior. Lay your seat backs down some, drop the side bar height and roof line way down. That will help 2 things, 1st will be top heavy issues and 2nd will be support for your spine. Taking a beating sitting upright is the worst thing you can do to your body. That's why all off-road builds have a short roof and a leaned back drivers seat. It keeps you from jamming your spine together if you hit hard bumps/jumps.

Dude, your vids are awesome. Seriously, from your fabrication talents, to your out of the box ideas and solutions, to your incredible editing and shooting, I'm truly impressed everytime I see one of your videos

Nice build. As for the suspension travel, no one ever considers rotating the outer ball joints 90 degrees. This will give you infinite vertical articulation. Imagine the outer ball joints in the smae orientation as the inner ball joints. You don't need to spin the tire around 360 degrees. So why have the most freedom of motion dedicated to the wheel turn radius? Use high offset bushings and next size up if you want more wheel turn, but you probably don't need it.

I cant believe how many subscribers you have now!!! When i started watching you, you barely had any and now look at you! You deserve it, brother!

Chris, Firstly, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Secondly, I know you seem to prefer building your projects with chain drive systems, but I hope you create a purely shaft driven 4wd project some time in the future. Heck, I would LOVE to see you create something similar to this or even convert this project to a shaft drive rather than chain drive system... Maybe there's a reason you don't like shaft drives or something, but if you do, I'd love to know the reason G

Браво! Ты - настоящий мастер. Приятно смотреть на работу!

Selamat tahun 2023 boss👍👍✌️✌️✅ part4 👌👌👍

Looking forward to seeing this jumping and climbing in 2023 but I'm also looking for my own welder and stuff to start building stuff myself because watching your videos gives me so much motivation to build something.... It's just cool to see you build these awesome vehicles by yourself and that's most likely what I'll be doing, I think I'd have better success doing it alone. Thanks for the video and I can't wait to see what you build in 2023.... 😁👍

That was brilliant you can create these mad vehicles from scratch but struggled measuring the suspension travel lol. Love the content and keep it up

Dude that's actually a pretty ingenious way to hold tubing in place for fabrication. Thanks for the great idea.

Here is what is going to happen, as ive said 3 other times on this project, you will complete this, it will look amazing. Youll ride it around your neighborhood and be amazed, then take it to one of those off road parks and overheat it and/or smoke the clutch trying to push that 1 ton vehicle and LARGE tires when that bike engine was meant to push a 300 or 400 lb bike. Wish you would consider using honda k motors in these bigger projects. that being said if you want more visibility out front try building your front shocks like an indy car with belcranks and run the shocks in the middle in line with the chassis.. That would be different and cool to see

I watched almost the while thing and realized he's welding in a wood floor shed. Brave man.

I watched the cbr 1000 build twice. Once myself and once with my dad. Its mesmerizing what this guy is able to do. Love the content. Dont change a thing.

Couldn’t wait to get off work once I got the alert. Only way to start the new year off. 😎 because Rather B Welding is one of the best fabricator on KZfaq, no fancy lathe or millers just straight old fashioned fabrications.

You show the marking of genius some times. I’m not kidding. Ability to adapt is most important. 25:51

That demonstration of the suspension travel was so smooth. Amazing work.

hearing u say how cold it is then imediatly seeing you on your knees on that frozen floor ... you are a trooper !!! keep up the great work man LOVE LOVE LOVE your stuff

Man, I love the background music...it has a very 90s alternative feel to it

Chris, make some doors for it. That is looking to be a large project and doors would make it so much easier to get in and out. Great project man. I still wanna see you build something capable and road legal though!

Do you have a tube bender? You should do a rolled tube just behind the front tires, give it some flare! Keep up the good work!

Love the vids bro been here sinc the beginning . Keep it up

Brr 🥶 Tweek (bend the upper a arm to clear the joint bind)

More bloopers at the end of your videos please? Nice work btw.

You can always put in pins to be able to remove that side bar to allow access into the vehicle. Additional safety feature you might consider is the window nets to help keep arms and hands inside the enclosed area as people have a tendency to lose control of their arms as the vehicle rolls over. Just a precautionary addition since you are increasing the speeds at which your traveling, and better to be safe than sorry I believe. PS You have the easiest calculator in the world in your hands. Simply line up the end of the tape measure with the number that you want to add or subtract from. Then say you want to add 6" to say 31", just slide the tape end past 31" until you get the 6" mark inline and look at the end of the tape measure. Should equal to the total of the two combined numbers. Just the opposite to subtract, but instead of moving the tape forward past the whole number. Simply look to see where the number you are taking away lines up on the tape measure, and that's your correct answer. Basically using the tape measure as a old fashion slide rule, something akin to what the Chinese used when they invented mathematics counting devices.

One good thing about working in a cold shop is, no big ass spiders crawling around.

The golden ratio of 1 to 1.618 will almost always let you fabricate out of thin air but finish with a project that is pleasing to the eye.

SICK!

thanks for telling us about the t-90 tramission, most likely will use them for some of my projects so thanks. great video yet again, im loving this whole project.

I have that exact same angle finder. I absolutely love it. I use mine for everything. Scratch building model car parts. Building things with wood and metal. It's so handy.

Thanks for filming Chris! 👍😁

Is that tubing going to be strong enough? It's just a? I mean no disrespect. I do respect what you have accomplished with your channel. It's quite remarkable young man. You should be proud of yourself. God bless you and yours

I am a follower from Morocco, you are really very cool, thank you very much

The craziest part about this whole build is that this dude can’t do simple addition and subtraction. But decides to build a death trap 😂. I love it!!

Been loving this build series! You show some very good techniques in your videos!

Your absolutely knocking this thing out! Congrats

it took me all summer to make a minibike frame...and you do this stuff...just amazing

the best part ¨I can´t do that kinda math¨ by the way, great work there man. looks good.

Not sure if it would be helpful or not but maybe setting up a laser line to get everything lined up correctly 🤷🏼

Looking good Chris.

Love watching your videos of you building toy's for yourself right from scratch. Right from the bottom and up. Keep up with the awesome work 👏 ✌️

Happy new year my dude! You are literally a freaking genius 👏

You can make your own gasket by rubbing a bit of clear silicon.

Dude I am so glad I subscribed to your channel. This project is right up my alley. I am building something similar and you’re really helping me out with mock-up and planning. 🤘🏼cheers

Amazing work - especially trying to think, build, design, film, etc. in such low temperatures. 👍👍

You want more than 12” of wheel travel if your calling a trophy truck type build. Aim for half the tire ratio 30 tire 15” min. Bend you links at the ends to center your rod ends to get more up travel or rotate them 90 deg. Less turn but more travel up and down. Love your builds.

Recommendation for a heater, get a diesel fuel heater from Harbor freight it will heat up that shop in an instant it does wonders for my big 20x40 shop with just one

I Iike to be like you at another life. In this one, I feal like I already messed up and won't be able to do a change. You are awesome!

Glad i stumbled upon the series, bummed that the latest part was released 2 days ago... now i have to wait :) For me, as electrical engineer, this is all new territory. Ive for a while wondered how structures like this was built, the thought process, tools and tricks. Might invest in a welder and start with learning that, maybe I can make myself some sort of toy in the future. Good video.

Biggest thing with shock travel. Build the entire thing at full bump, then limit the down travel with the straps. With many of your previous builds you run much too large of shocks which case the chassis' to be taller than required and most of the shock travel is unused

Man 4wd is wild. Your on par with grind hard plumbing

Use a fan to circulate the warm air :) or maybe insulate the door a touch by adding plywood to the inside to have trapped air? As climate changes and the years pass, we must adapt and overcome! A good sentiment to the years ahead! Cheers and all the best to your new year!

Man you should really strat with something like a small hatchback or a pickup cab and put all this engine and suspension in it, that way youll have a good interior space and crazy capability and maybe road legal

Nice work as usual 👌 from Canada 🇨🇦

Great video as always, and awesome work. I do want to comment on the front suspension and shock set up though... I love how you build everything ! Though it may seem wonderful that you only have 5" of shock travel and 12" of wheel travel, this means you have over a 2 to one ratio. This isn't necessarily bad, but on this type of vehicle it isn't good. For example, if you have 12" travel and 12" shock you have a one to one ratio and the load that is on the wheel is the same as what it is on the shock. If you have 12" travel and 6" shock, your spring rate and damper take twice as much load. In a long travel vehicle the suspension is going to take a thrashing. The spring needs to be twice as stiff to support the vehicle, so the damper also needs to resist twice as hard to stop bouncing... this means the shocks get really really hot. They will work worse as the day goes on, as they get hot, and they will wear out much quicker. It is also much harder to tune the suspension. All of this to say, that if you're going to use this ratio, make sure that you have really good shocks. Lots of trophy trucks will have two dampers and one spring, and at least one damper will have a piggyback reservoir to try to keep the oil cool. it seems to me like you should consider changing the angle of the heim joints in the control arms so that you can maximize travel. You can do this without bending anything. It's going to be a pain, but the end of the hemi joint doesn't have to go into the control arm... Meaning you can notch the end of the control arm at the desired angle and weld the threaded insert on 👍

I’m chomping at the bit to build similar builds. I really wanna show my designs instead of talking about them so people will see the originality behind it. I like this current 4wd build specifically❗️

Love your builds and your unhealthy liking of chain drive. Subbed!

Commenting while watching.. Happy New Years 🎉BTW.. but that holder was genius!,

new in box rebuilt and painted those T90s are only $686 right now 😱...definitely gonna have to get one for my r1 engine project. those reverse boxes are ridiculously overpriced

IDEA!! If you are just looking for reverse. Why not look at snowmobiles. They run on a chain. And it's very simple systems to operate. If you don't need extra needs that is for future. Can fine machines cheap all the time. Newer systems with push button found on yamahas and arctic cats. Sick project BTW.

Chris!!!!! You need a bigger shop! Maybe an extension to your existing shop!!

I’m waiting for the day this dude probably makes his pickup truck

Great video as always, have a wonderful new year building.

Awesome work man!!! Love watching these vids

Awesome bud keep up the good work can’t wait to see it finished 😄

Nice build! Like always, interesting! Thanks

Always enjoy when you’ve got the next video sure bets regular TV and I learn from you which I won’t use cause I’m Retired and enjoy your content keep up the great work

I admire your work, happy new year!

Please take a trip up trail 1a at brown mountain with this thing. I would love to see that video. I’m local to brown mountain also, trail 1a to trail 2 to trail 9 is a crazy technical ride.

No wonder you’d rather b welding u have some pretty good fab skills keep up the good work man ur killing it

Hy, I find this project is very exciting, and I go in hurry to the next episod. Kris

Guys i m very short of word to say it's amazing or beyond amazing i learned a lot from you wel done

turn the heim joints all vertical and use bump stops for the up travel and limit straps for down travel

Just sleep on it! I'm sure you will make the best decision! You always do! If I was you, I'd redo it! Get that maximum travel! It's a trophy truck! 👍💯🤪

this thing is seriously awesome!

I love this build!

Projeto extraordinário!

Build a removeable tarp roof and removable glass and doors . Cool to have a heater core

Крис красава👍. Смотрю всегда с удовольствием.

Try mounting top A-arm brackets to the top of the tube and bottom A-arm brackets to the bottom of the tube. You want to get the driveshafts as parallel to the ground as possible at normal ride height with you in the vehicle. You have very little compression at the moment with most of the suspension travel on droop at that driveshaft angle.

Nice build! You really should put a diff in the front! Doing turns in this thing will be difficult.

Chris, maybe consider making the roll cage shorter and using a "Gull Wing" door that hinges at top and swings down to strengthen and become a part of the cage.

Happy New Years bro, cant wait to see this thing when its done! Also really want to see the electric dirt bike rip on a trail, makes me want to build one every time I see that thing!

Awesome work mate. Im also building a new toy here in new Zealand your videos help heaps

If you put a bend in the a arms where the Himes joint is limited you won’t have to change the mounts on the hubs. I love the project so far.

First, your vids are getting really good! Second, what you need are called high misalignment spacers, designed for heim joints

That's a cool tool you made for angles 😎

As usual like what I’m seeing 👍🏻 didn’t think it got that cold in your area, stay warm and happy new year 🎉

Sorry reposting this as the first was from a 2013 model RZR XP but the 2022 Polaris RZR XP 1000 Sport 20 inches of usable suspension travel front and rear.

On most long travel setups you'd run uniballs vertically on the spindles. You'd gain a lot more travel in the arms. For the axles you can go in and make some clearance to gain a bit more before they bind.

Hey man, greetings from germany :) I really enjoy your videos everey sunday. I just wanted to say thanks for your awesome content. Keep up the good work! :) I am really looking forward to see this project coming together.

Maravilha o projeto amigo!!! Feliz Ano Novo a todo com muita saúde e paz e realizações!!!

Happy new year and great video as usual

thanks for the videos

awsome.. love shop briefs..

Lovin the videos... The last time I saw a trophy truck with a low range was... well, never. HEHE. Keep it up, it'll be nice to see someone be able to ride with ya.

I've gotta say I really would like to see what you could build with all automotive parts. Axles, motor,transmission ect. Bet you could build and bad ass crawler!

FWIW,, a Muncey 4 speed is aluminum cased and so much lighter than the toploader.. it also uses shifter rods so easy to move the shifter around. Great channel.. :)

Thanks

2023 Should be interesting, Happy New Year Y'all.