» Vedran Relja http://craftomoto.com Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:13:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Motorcycle seat upholstery http://craftomoto.com/motorcycle-seat-upholstery/ http://craftomoto.com/motorcycle-seat-upholstery/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:52:12 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=8308 I was asked to do a simple upholstery on a custom fabricated motorcycle seat. Doing upholstery and custom stitch pattern on a bike seat for me starts with measuring and putting down visual lines for possible cutting options. The first decision concerns the desired width and length.  Trying to figure...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/motorcycle-seat-upholstery/feed/ 0 Robotika Mechanika http://craftomoto.com/robotika-mechanika/ http://craftomoto.com/robotika-mechanika/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:12:58 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=8141 From time to time it’s nice to do stuff without any higher reason than to have some fun. If there’s some kind of a story behind it, I am sure it would be in a device art category. Within my job, I make various automation systems, but they are usually fully engineered to be reliable and a...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/robotika-mechanika/feed/ 0 Red Bull Soapbox race 2019 http://craftomoto.com/red-bull-soapbox-race-2019/ http://craftomoto.com/red-bull-soapbox-race-2019/#comments Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:30:08 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7968 We just got back from the 129th edition of Red Bull Soapbox race. It has been held for the third time in Croatia, and the interesting thing is that the slope of the race ends directly on the main Zagreb square. There was total of 55 teams racing for the first place. The one that eventually got the m...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/red-bull-soapbox-race-2019/feed/ 0 Ford Capri bumper restoration and winch install http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-bumper-restoration-and-winch-install/ http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-bumper-restoration-and-winch-install/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:16:53 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7817 As you already know, everything’s a project. This is particularly true for the front of the car, especially for the bumper and the winch. I had ordered a few original Capri bumpers, but none of them was in a perfect shape, so I had to get my hands really dirty to make them look like they suppo...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-bumper-restoration-and-winch-install/feed/ 0 Ford Capri wiper mechanism restoration http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-wiper-mechanism-restoration/ http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-wiper-mechanism-restoration/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:12:19 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7786 Wiper mechanism is the one of those things that you usually don’t see, because it’s installed behind some kind of bulkhead, and usually its replacement requires quite a lot of work. I believe that its refurbishment will reduce the deterioration of the unit, and minimize the chances of fa...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/ford-capri-wiper-mechanism-restoration/feed/ 0 Custom Ford Capri struts http://craftomoto.com/custom-ford-capri-struts/ http://craftomoto.com/custom-ford-capri-struts/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:51:40 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7739 Like the all the parts of the build, front struts also got an overhaul with a twist. One of the first tasks was to take a few donor struts. As you can see, they where not in a road worthy condition. I had two sets, so they both got stripped. The next step was to weld those reinforcement triangles. B...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/custom-ford-capri-struts/feed/ 0 Musicalidy 4.0 http://craftomoto.com/musicalidy-4-0/ http://craftomoto.com/musicalidy-4-0/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:43:21 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7672 In my line of work you really don’t know what’s it gonna be next. This time I was asked to make a musicality device for dance classes, a brainchild of a well known Balboa dance master Gašper Hrovat. Usually the look of the device is explained without any kind of visualization, but this t...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/musicalidy-4-0/feed/ 0 Custom fuse & battery box http://craftomoto.com/custom-fuse-battery-box/ http://craftomoto.com/custom-fuse-battery-box/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:43:00 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7188 With all the thingamajigs and electrical stuff that I am installing in the car, I decided to mount a battery cut off switch, a few master fuses, and also, for the current measurement, a 500A shunt. I will be running 3x20mm2 wires in the car for everything, which by my calculation is more than enough...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/custom-fuse-battery-box/feed/ 0 Custom overhead console http://craftomoto.com/custom-overhead-console/ http://craftomoto.com/custom-overhead-console/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:05:40 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7457 Knight rider’s, Blade Runner’s, Mad Max’s car and almost every space ship has an overhead control panel, so naturally, Capri needed to have one, too. Creating and mounting it became a bigger challenge than anticipated. After the initial design, we could start working on the piece. ...

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]]> http://craftomoto.com/custom-overhead-console/feed/ 0 Custom OMP Ford Capri pedals http://craftomoto.com/custom-omp-ford-capri-pedals/ http://craftomoto.com/custom-omp-ford-capri-pedals/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:32:40 +0000 http://craftomoto.com/?p=7293 Believe it or not, but sourcing the pedals I like was quite a quest. So, when I finally found the design that I like, there was a problem – usually you get two identical pedals, for the clutch and the brake and one accelerator pedal with different design. But with OMP you get all different ped...

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