Build Your Own Swingarm?

[RADAR56]

Is it feasible?
I am thinking about maybe making something like this:

http://www.diablochopshop.com/images/derbycity.jpg

Yeah I am a new guy but I am good with my hands, and want to make something completely different.

[64dumptruck]

let us know how you do.

The geometry should be hard to get right.

[brooder]

Definitely feasible. As long as you've got access to a mandrel bender, welder, and materials, you should be able to fab something up.

[Erki]

lookin forward to seeing the build. hope all works out. should be sweet.

[RADAR56]

You guys are putting a lot of faith in me. So I guess I will see what I can do.

[scottynoface]

Only thing to do is try Measure twice cut once.

[steves]

Only thing to do is try Measure twice cut once.

I usually end up measuring about 16 times.... but I bet he gets the idea.

Might not be a bad idea to source another stock swing arm to use for measurements.

[Dan Dubeau]

I measure all day at work. When I build **** at home, I just wing it.

I've got a stock 98+ swinger that I've been meaning to cmm for a long time (actually did it once, but it's a long story). Only thing I don't have it time to do it.

[Sasquatch]

Engineering it to make sure it is strong enough, and have the correct stiffness wont be all that easy (keep torsion in mind). Once you have it designed, building it should not be very difficult.


I hope you are an EXPERT welder. I would not trust my life with anything less.

[jdm5770]

good luck!

[legacycycles]

Just do it...Ive been thinking about doing something like that also but i havent found the right project for it yet.Ive just been doing stretched swingarms because there easy.

[RADAR56]

Yeah I am going to try and model up in a 3D modeling program first. Run it through some FEA analysis and see how strong it is. Call me a nerd but I like my life.

[Dan Dubeau]

Yeah I am going to try and model up in a 3D modeling program first. Run it through some FEA analysis and see how strong it is. Call me a nerd but I like my life.

Sounds like my initial plan. keep us posted of your progress (especially me). I'm not too up to speed on FEA software (purposly moving myself away from that side of the industry, one of these days I won't have an office anymore, I'll actually be on the shop floor ). I was gonna do it the old fashioned way

[RADAR56]

Yeah I am a college kid so I got access to all sorts of cool stuff. And I usually got a friend who knows what is going on with the software I am using.

[cmac250]

be sure and post pics ive been thinkin about doin sum kinda swingarm myself so i would really like to c what u come up with