Give a mad scientist a project and what do you know, he goes mad!

Tim
Update by Tim Suddard to the Berkeley Sports project car
Feb 13, 2007

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Denny Crabill (right) explains his rear suspension design and discs to publisher Tim Suddard. The deal they made is that Crabill would engineer the beast and Suddard would use his fiberglass repair and restoration skills to make it pretty.

Tight fit, but Suddard is in and has room to work the controls. Originally a two seater, our Berzerkeley is now a single seater in true Funny Car tradition.

Crabill had to engineer a differential that also made a reverse gear possible. Designed from scratch, this homemade dif is made from scraps, and uses a Torsen Gleason torque sensing dif from Toyota Rav 4. A provision for a reverse gear was also added.

More detail on our rear brakes. The bolt pattern is 4x100mm to make common cheap wheels an easy fitment. Some $100 aftermarket 2002 BMW wheels are being used, at least during the testing stage.

Even more detail on the rear brakes and a shot of how simple the car will be to align.

To save money and weight, the rear is supported by an eBay sourced bike coilover. The torsion bar is off a mini-sprint and serves as an anti-roll bar on this application.

Again with the amazing fabrication skill…Crabill built his own fuel cell and used the fuel pump from the wrecked Suzuki 750 GSX-R. You can see this sticking out of the bottom of the cell. The cool looking aluminum rear bumperettes (ala a competition Cobra) are Harley triple trees that we found in a

Denny Crabill is not known for taking the easy way out and when we came back to check on our Berzerkeley project we were freaked out by the level of complexity and engineering Crabill has brought to this project.

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