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10/2005 Log

This page logs my progress of the Vortex build for the month of October 2005

Date Costs Activity
10/3/2005   One week and I am getting to know my Prius even better, and have to say even more impressed with it...

Still averaging between 48-49mpg. I would be happy to field any questions about the Prius, just email me.
10/09/05  

I had a rare day in which I was able to get back to the Vortex. I made up the bracket which holds on the rear brake caliper. Here is a picture of the bracket,. I had to profile it a bit to fit the caliper better.

Here is the bracket welded onto the swing arm. I will need to change the bolts used to hold the pulley/rotor on the axle as the heads of the hex bolts are causing some interference with the brake caliper.

I also put the drive pulley onto the intermediate shaft so that I could get an idea if the rear adjusting slots were sufficient. It looks that the slots were made long enough, if I get a lot of streatch from the belt I can always remove the swing arm and enlongate them some more.

Month
12/2004
1/2005
2/2005
3/2005
4/2005
5/2005
6/2005
7/2005
8/2005
9/2005
10/2005
11/2005
Costs
$1238.00
380.00
218.50
1487.37
2115.97
445.33
321.94
636.39
(67.00)
103.00
0.00
12.00

Month
12/2005
1/2006
2/2006
3/2006
4/2006
5/2006
6/2006
7/2006
8/2006
9/2006
10/2006
11/2006
Costs
$501.38
555.70
648.26
315.90
356.84
410.00
479.65
187.93
1113.53
503.78
1445.80
83.60

Month
12/2006
1/2007
2/2007
3/2007
4/2007
5/2007
Costs
$763.86
119.85
199.10
288.66
119.40
239.00
Basic Project Done


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