You build really nice things man… there are some other YT’ers out there building quality stuff like GHPC, but the fact that you do everything alone really deserves a lot of respect and proves you are very talented! Keep up the good work Chris!
To be fair, I do think Ethan does 99% of the fabrication for GHP. But their style is different, Chris definitely shows more in his videos, which I prefer, which comes across as more mature content. GHP is more of a "Boys Gone Wild" kinda vibe and they HARD focus on marketing.
I come here to see engineering and fabrication, totally different audience to GHPC where they're like a bunch of cowboys building cool stuff meant to last one video
Design it, build it, break it, do it again, learn. I have been in the tool and die, mold making and machining industry for over 50 years. You’re doing a fine job! Keep up the good work. When you demonstrate what works and what doesn’t work, everyone learns.
I'd say yes to adding the door just to challenge yourself. Like you said at the end: you have fun building stuff over just adding parts on, and this would be your first time adding doors to a project
I'd love to see you make this thing have doors. It would be so much easier to get in and out of! You can also have the sides much higher for side protection that way.
I used to watch this channel a few years ago when me and my neighborhood friends were building dirtbikes and go karts in high school, crazy that i stumbled upon it now and am addicted to these videos. Absolutely fascinating to see some of your lathe and machine work. Might have to invest in some machines for my shop!
Awesome work! You build it your own way and we will keep watching it! Thank you for the great content and most of all thank you for your hard work! A build like this is a labor of love and you can’t complain about love
I do like the fact that the drive sprocket is on the same plane as the suspension pivot point. It keeps the chain tension equal throughout the suspension travel. This definitely keeps the chains happy, and in turn it will last much longer.
I been here since the beginning and I gotta say I have questioned your methods but you always figure it. Plus your skills have improved tremendously. The slight interference fit of machined parts is proof compared to the lack of it previously. Nice work. Love seeing the progress
I never realized how much chains have been used all through out history. They scare me at high speeds haha, hopefully you make a good tunnel cover! Love the builds man
I remember a story about a land speed record holder having one snap and kill him. I think the car was called bluebird? It's been a while since I watched the story.
@@tinkerne-round4079 Parry Thomas was kill 1927 it was thought that he was killed by a chain but apparently that wasn't the cause. Here's the link if you are interested. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Parry-Thomas
@@tinkerne-round4079 If I remember rightly there was one that used a chain drive but it was something like a 24L aeroplane engine, apparently he looked to see what the noise was and it decapitated him. It was on a beach in England. Many years ago (1920s if I remember right), chains have come a very long way since also he is using a bike engine, it's got no where near the torque or power, also it runs much smoother, as long as its maintained it should be fine, I would however question the quality of the Chinese chain (I'd use a DID zvmx-x) also the length of the front chain could be a concern, a very slight bit of wear on all those links would create a huge amount of slack, it would also need guides to stop it slapping. 👍
Honesty I’ve always wondered why you made nearly everything from scratch. Now that I know, I feel that is pretty darn admirable! Ultimately for me, I love seeing you build, so if it means there is more to build, than that just means more content to watch. Keep up the fantastic work!
It would be sweet to see you do a project history where you pull out and showcase all your builds on the channel, you’ve got so many I’m sure there are people that have forgot about some of your builds, personally my favorite build is your snowmobile go cart because I ride snowmobiles and know a lot about them
@@Ghryst why the hate? And I didn’t say re run, I said a show case, and it seems like other people agree with me that they would like to see that, if you don’t like the idea, then don’t watch the video if he makes one like that.
@@jackfulton6696 hate? i dont fear re-runs, im not rerunphobic, your imaginations are just that and false hate-accusations are despicable, Mr Smollet. of course most people agree with you, because the mode average IQ of the public is well below the statistical median average.
@@Ghryst you didn’t like my idea, and felt the need to reply saying no one wants to see what I suggested, even though other people agree with me, and now your claiming that people who want to see his old builds again have a low IQ, that sounds like hate to me
things man… there are some other YT’ers out there building quality stuff like GHPC, but the fact that you do everything alone really deserves a lot of respect and proves you are very talented! Keep up the good work Chris
Hey , I just keep watching your videos from France , I am only 24 but you make me want to achieve my objectives . Have a garage at home with all the tools I need to build stuff as well as you do . Allready a mecanic industrial technicien , I just keep learning things with you . Thank’s a lot ❤
I've been around fab work my whole life building roll cages for race cars and all that as a kid and still today I couldn't build one and get every angle perfect by myself it takes some serious skill to do. I love you're work it's just amazing.
I kind of had a feeling that's how you were going to lock and unlock for the front spool. It works well and all things considered, simple and reliable.
to get the sprocket close to centered, you could use your tailstock to press against the chuck, roughly centering the bore to the tailstock (around 5 minutes in)
Just keep having fun with your projects and we will enjoy watching. What you do is creative and many times outside of the normal way we tend to think witch is how invention works! Keep up the great work and we will be here to watch and enjoy your crazy mind.
Chains are actually very efficient in power transfer. Noise can be an issue. Your methods a good that is the content I’m looking for. All for the engineering and problem solving. Bolting parts together is for 12 year old kids. 12 year old kids having fun, learning and growing skills. On your dog build I would drill the pin holes through all plates at the same time then on the female side open up the back side for engagement play. This would be to have positive power transfer across all pins at the same time. Making them separately any variance in clearance has to wear in or the pins have to bend until contact is equally distributed across all pins. Not saying the way you did it isn’t right end result would be the same. Awesome work!
You have some exceptional skills for a young man. With the limited amount of space you have to work in and the tools you have, you create some amazing machines! Thanks again for the awesome video man!
I love the fab that you do. It is amazing to see you make something out of a pile of steel into a really cool off roading machine! I also like it when you take us with you so we can see your creations out in the wild. Thank you for sharing you work with us!
I’d say adding doors is definitely a good idea just for ease of access in general, in addition to being safer/easier to get out of in case of a roll over. Also, on the last video I saw a comment about possible running the seats in a slightly more leaned back position in order to be able to drop the heigh of the roof a little bit. Absolutely no idea how practical or comfortable that would be for you but I think dropping the roof at least a little would make it proportionally closer to the look of a trophy truck. The build looks killer so far though!
Protip: you would save yourself a ton of time to productize some components and make them into self as series production. You could still make different frames etc but use some ready made components that take time. Just having the same tools set up and then make ten or 20 instead of two saves a lot time.
Plenty of people on RU-vid use bolt on stuff (boring) that’s why people like myself, love to watch your content! That’s because everything is custom to the next level! All created using brain power and experience! Keep it up dude! And we’ll done!
@@ratherBweldingChris i would highly recommend boxing the A-arms and trailing arms with some sheet metal. maybe 1/8th or 1/4 inch. Adds a ton of strength for the weight. looks badass too.
Thasnk you for explaining why you prefer to work with chain drive systems over shaft driven systems (though I had motorbike shafts in my head rather than car driveshafts). Your explaination makes perfect sense to me (I happen to prefer making things over buying them too!)
I like the door idea. In my head, I’d say a drop down door. Opposite of gull wing. Love you style of having fun and doing what you want. Don’t listen to S talkers!
I love watching been watching for a long long time seen the progress overall in design, build and quality keep getting better and love the fact you create from scratch as much as you can 👌
Thanks for taking the time to explain your logic on using chain drive setups on your builds! I've often wondered why you tend to steer away from shaft drive systems.
Don’t listen to the negative commenters. Just keep doing your thing. As long as you are getting them built and having fun doing it, then u are killing it.
I like the way you do things! ONe of the reasons for watching your channel is the fact that you build most everything. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR AND PEOPLE WILL COME!! I think doors that also are frame/frame support would be awesome, and a whole lot easier in/out.
I’m following you quite a long time from you don’t have any perfect and complete tools/equipments with normal type of camera until now i see the progress you made impressed me. Your video not boring to watch clear explanations and we learn together.. keep it up man.. you are unique.. Btw I’m from Malaysia ❤
I dont think you really need to explain yourself on the "why chain drive" Chris. I think you've already proven that the mid-shaft chain drive system is really practical. Also, the reason I watch your channel is because of your talent at machining & building most from scratch. Also that you're not doing something that every other youtuber is doing. Your creations are truly unique. Dont ever loose that bro.
Absolutely think you should do the doors idea… as for the chain thing, the first atv’s were exclusively chain driven. There’s many utv’s that use chain drive still, while not a speed daemon by any means, Argos use very complex chain drive set ups. Builds looking good!
You skill on the lathe , tig ..etc is really fun to watch , Im a newbie too lathe now couple years in , and your work on a lathe is helping me learn some new tricks forsure .thanks for sharing your work .
Your engineering skills are up there with the best of the bunch, I love the "take my own road" approach, being a woodworking guy I absolutely get that and its fun. One thing I cringed about is where you removed the metal bars form the CNC and then hitting it with the cordless grinder - respect the tools man and they will in turn respect you much more. Keep up the work and love to see the end results.
I hear you and applaud you sticking to what you enjoy! If you ever want to depart from motorcycle and snow machine engines, please consider small diesels like a Perkins 3-cyl or other small diesel.
great execution! would definitively encase the crash boxes and waterproof the entire trans tunnel. Without that, the selector forks will have issues with foreign objects or rust and wear quickly. With rollers or sliders you definitively can make the center trans tunnel structural and integrate the chain in the structure with two tubes. That loooong chain will be the cooling system itself, dragging the oil back and forth from each end, giving it room to cool without any external feature, besides an atmosphere vent (and a balancing pipe of some sort linking both cases, so oil wont pool on one side only, like a gravity return, where the oil sloshing forward when braking, flows in the link pipe, returning oil to the rear and vice versa). sealing would be fairly easy, two automotive oil seals on each side of the "boxes" and the boxes being very simplified differential cases, with bolted on sides. anyhow, encasing the chain is a big thing with this project. it will reduce friction losses, links will be cooler and the gears wont wear quite as quickly. also allows you to oil quench the gears to harden them without fear of a foreign object breaking them.
Well done. More amazing work. I look forward to seeing your new videos as they come out. Don't worry about the sceptics, without them we wouldn't have the daring. I would love to see how you make doors for this. I feel that if you are debating it, it is for a reason and you should go with it. They would have a really secure latching/locking mechanism and probably be 'part' of the frame to give it structure. Perhaps a pros and cons list is in order... Keep up the great work. Look forward to the next one.
You can make a plate to go on the router base, or even an enclosure to mount the router in, to make more flat area to put your work on, making the process easier and more accurate. Like the use of the cordless grinderhammer by the way.
I see! Then it would be anchored by the body of the router, so it will be more secure. Make an enclosure with a block of two by four screwed to the bottom. That way you can still clamp it in the vice and stick it on a shelf when you are not using it. 😃
Chris, project is coming along great. For the center chain, the idler/tensioner should be on the top side, because the pull load is on the bottom side. Further, for chain guides, I’d look at making them out of UHMW, a type of plastic that can easily be worked, but should resist wear from the chain passing over it. Last, you didn’t mention the sprocket ratios. I’m hoping your 17T to front sprocket matches your rear ratio. Keep up the great work.
@@jlucasound thanks man. I seem to remember a company I worked for, 35 years ago, using UHMW for this application. I’ve used UHMW for other things recently, and it seems suitable. I don’t think Chris’ creations see enough miles to really wear something like this out anyway.
This build (and documentation of the build) is really great. Thanks for taking the time and care to make this series. I also love the multi-purpose grinder/ hammer at 15:30
I would love to see a mini crawler (not a rock bouncer), could use driveshafts and a transfer case to keep the engine up front. I think it would be amazing! Also solid front and rear axles with coilovers.
You make some really amazing stuff, yes too the doors and maybe some removable Perspex windows ? So you can use it all year round, so you can remove doors and windows in the hot weather and put them back on for winter 🥶 so you don’t freeze to death and stay somewhat dry and warm? On the plus side of using the motorcycle engines you can also use the wiring harness to run lights a dashboard, then you got power to weight ratio and the ability to change the gearing/sprockets are all cheaper than it would be to change gear ratios in car gearing. Anyway you know all this stuff already….keep the awesome builds coming…..maybe get it street legal so you can really get the use of all your hard work 👍 you are a true craftsman 👏👏👏
Good job Chris, yes do doors. Make the doors raise up to open like a Tesla but also not to complicated and part of the cage structure. Bad Ass engineering. 😊👍🏻
A thought for the plasma cutter set up, put a mesh or "chicken wire" style shelf 6 inches below the cutting surface to catch the pieces as they fall. you won't have to bend over as much to grab them and the over-spray of the cutter can pass through to the bottom
What you do, Chris, is amazing! I've been following you for a long time, and I applaud your growth, quality, and consistency! You are truly inspirational, and I encourage you to do exactly what makes you happy in your shop on your channel 😊 God bless you 🙏
I love the way you build your stuff because that's what makes you different from everyone else and to me your builds are fantastic and your channel is very sweet. Keep up the great work there's alot of us that love to see how you're going to be putting the next parts together. God Bless you and your family. 🙏🙏💯💪👍👍👌
Fantastic journey. You've got me dreaming of a chain driven trophy truck cart powered by 3kw ebike hub motors and pedal assist! If only I had your skills... Cheers!
Let the haters hate! You’re doing a great job bro! Enjoying The build and I appreciate all the hard work you’ve been putting into everything… Because I know it’s a lot
Guarantee if you try it once where you take car parts like CV axles and and a car engine and a drive shafts and put them into your build guarantee you're still going to have fun because that comes with different challenges that you got to figure out and be interesting to watch you work that out
I was looking at your build and you gave me an idea. What if maybe in one of your future builds instead of using those differentials you use transfer cases from ranger pickups. That way you can use 4x4 or unlock the front to use rear wheel drive or unlock the rear to use front wheel drive. You can connect the two with chain drive just like you have. You would even be able to change gear ratios between the front and rear to get out of situations. Watching you machine the parts is the best part of your videos you always give me ideas.
Man its going be awesome, and as long as your having fun, with what you are doing with motorcycle engine. its amazing to see how far you came from when you first started.
Yo! Stumbled across your feed today! Needless to say after a few hours watching....Damn Brother! You are killing it! Now..... I gotta watch all your others!
