Warrior II

[RAYVILLIAN]

MIke
Warrior II will be basicly the same as Winter Warrior. I'm planning on trying to lower the profile down below 5ft. I think that 4 1/2 ft would be easy by droping the floor down between the frame rails. I'm hopeing for 4 ft though. Than I'm going with thinner walls, say with 1/4 ply inner and outer with 1/2 core. Realisticly thinking I will probably never camp in the winter unless I go south, way south, so the 1 thick insulation is a bit of overkill.
I might add a side door and turn my table around but that is still in the thought stage. It will diffently still have the inside galley and solid pop up top that works out great and it is nice to pour water in the mister coffee and turn it on while still in bed as well as stand up to pull my pants up.

My only disappointment was not with the design but my building, he came in at 1600lbs and I was hopeing for about 1200. So the main reason for Warrior II is to try to cut down on the wind resistance and the weight.

Trudy says that I have to sell the Little Guy first to get the money for Warrior II and it will probably be another winter project.
Gary

[mikeschn]

That sounds like another fun project.

If you get the height down to 4' do you think you'd be able to stand up in it? It's kinda hard to put a 2' deep dropped floor in it ya know... Okay how much height do you gain lifting up the hatch?

Mike...

[RAYVILLIAN]

I get 26 inches of height out of the present design with the top up but with the 3 inch drop I have in the galley that gives me 6 foot 4 inches in the galley. The hatch is 5 foot long at present and I think by making it 6 foot long and making the sides of the hatch longer, they currently stop about a foot up the side of the trailer, I can get about 3 foot of height out of the hatch. This is also speculation at this point. I don't have a cad program and haven't taken the time to get plywood and work it out on the table like I did WW. WW has a 4 foot back wall because of the door I had to work with and your orginal design had a 3 foot back wall if I remember right.
I had alot of wind drag going across Kansas and South Dakota and would like to try to fix that. Lost about 3.5 MPG on head wind days only lost 1.5 on nonwind days. I actually got better mileage climbing 6000 feet over Powder Pass than I did going across Kansas.
I think I read some where that your doing another build. What's it going to be this time? Going to try a Warrior?
Gary