Dummies Guide to Building a Vortex - October 2005 (Project Genesis)

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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.

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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