Ollies Fat Chick

The worx on Ollies bus are still going on.

The rideheight is set a little higher to be able to use the bus to carry things around while Ollie's rebuilding his house. But no worries, there is still some room for adjustments as the frontbeam received adjusters to be able to dail in the desired height.

The front end has been updated by a set of dropped spindles, Koni shocks and 20mm thick adaptors to get the wheels in place. WXith these nice Porsche 16 inchers, this Fat Chick will look like it came straight from Die Deutsche Autobahnen...

While bussy, I took the oportunity to relocate the muffler as my previous attempt to get the BAS-exhaust fitted wasn't up to the mark, so I took it apart and started over again. After some cutting and welding, the muffler is now shortened by 10cm and now sits nicely under the wing. So now Ollies bus features a GAS-exhaust.

Another problem that needed to be sorted out was the location of the oil cooler. The oilcooler was placed between the engine and chassisleg but didn't get enough cool air the get the temperature at a desired level so it needed to be relocated as well.

I made a bracked from scratch and mounted the cooler thanks to some welded in bolts right in front of the automatic gearbox and should now get more than enough cool air. But first we need a long testdrive to be shure of it so we'll have to spank the 2 liter type 4 breathing thru a pair of 44 IDF's...