A friend of mine would like to drive a seven type car but has no use of his right leg.
He currently drives an auto car with a left foot accelerator. Can any one advise of options to enable him to drive? A manual will be a preferred option if it's possible.

Bike engine with sequential box maybe. Gkd did a BMW based seven called the legend so could use their sequential box, m3 running gear is interesting, not sure on their current trading status though.

Bike engine would be possible with hand operated clutch.
Surely a dsg type conversion would be the way to go.
There are plenty of companies that convert the pedal boxes.
A good one was on car sos with a right leg amputation.

How about using the left hand handlebar from a bike with the clutch lever/cable or hydraulic. Mounted in a suitable place it would allow proper clutch feel on a BEC.

Do you mean 'drive' as in own one to drive around or he just wants to have a quick drive in one?

The simplest option would be to get a Bike engined car with a cable operated clutch and put a hand operated clutch on the gear lever as you only need it for down-shifts and then re-jig you pedal box so that the throttle cable is attached to the original clutch pedal. Probably a days work at most.

i purchased a Westfield sport 2000s that had ben converted for a person with left leg only,

on the gear leaver he mounted the master cylinder for the clutch, so when pushed forward clutch was in, and let out to engage it,

push the leaver to the left go up gears, push leaver to the right down gears,

this was a duratec engine with a elite sequential gearbox,

he made the clutch peddle the gas peddle and removed the original peddle, so only 2 peddles,

worked a treat, but would take some getting used to,

i still have the mechanism and peddle in the garage some place,


the original bec as said, had the clutch on the gear leaver like the bikes have so an easier option,

thanks

sean

We had a customer who used to rally a mk1 Lotus Cortina 40 years ago, he had an artificial leg.
The clutch lever was on the gearstick and the throttle control lever behind the right side of the steering wheel.
Worked very well as I remember.

Or just a standard automatic gearbox on a car engine as most disabled cars are...

[Edited on 13/4/15 by Mr Whippy]

Some inspiration here http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=193260
and here http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=140381

Hello

when i was young ( almost 20 yars ago ), i made a school internship at Gillet Automobiles.
this guy makes the Gillet Vertigo.

they made a special car for Philippe Streiff.
This car was driven with a joystick. No pedals, no steering wheel.
The driver had a stick on the left where he could select Rear-1-2 or Auto ( it was a simple auto gearbox on the Cosworth engine)
The joystick was on the place of the gear selector and was connected to hydraulics cylinders that move the wheels,actuate the throttle or brakes.
So if you move left or right the wheels turn left or right, if you push , the car accelerate, if you push back , the car brakes.
it was very impressive.

This worked pretty good and i think that for your friend , a single auto gearbox will be more then enough.
Easy job, only a few kg more for the car and maybe some modification to the chassis due to the size of the gearbox.

you will have to think at your engine choice.
old engine as Pinto can be connected to classical auto gearboxes.

If you go to a new engine, and maybe some DSG or Tiptronic gearboxes, you may find some problems due to the electronic of those cars.
Modern "auto" gearboxes use lots of electronics and you may have problem to find the right signals on a kit car ( ABS, g force sensor etc...)


Gerardo

Could maybe use a kart type clutch. Very easy if it's a BEC.

A friend of mine had a switch on the gear knob of his camper van that operated the clutch via a box of tricks that he had fitted so his wife could drive it

I am paralysed and have no use of my legs. I built an mk indy r with a gsxr 1000k5.
I fitted an EFm auto clutch from America http://www.efmautoclutch.com
Just like a twist and go , right hand controlled hand controls which I fitted myself pull to accelerate , push to brake
Left hand ( 1st and seconcond finger ) controlled buttons (made a bracket ) so hand didn't leave steering , the buttons were connected to a klicktronic gear change system which wAs also connected to trick shifter with full power up shift then when I went down the box it automatically blipped the throttle. I sold it to a guy on here who just uses the accelerator and brake pedal and still uses the buttons.

I am currently building a mk indy rr with a hAyabusa I am going to run a lever to push for a brake and have a twist throttle connected so I can get on the power quicker after releasing the brake , the hydraulic clutch will be fitted like a bike brake lever and only used for stopping and starting
http://youtu.be/sBloLoiaTI0

. Here is a vid at oulyon skip to about 5 mins as I had really hard slicks on

http://youtu.be/B1q0sOL_65c another one from a different angle

[Edited on 13/4/15 by raptor700]

Google click and go clutch

Thanks everyone for your posts. I have finally managed to register so I can post myself. Lots of good options coming out. Can someone advise me what
a BEC is please?

Bike Engined Car

I.e. A car with a motorbike engine, benefits are very light weight, sequential box, lots of refs. Disadvantages no reverse gear unless either a reverse box or electric reverse is fitted, takes a bit of getting used to using the revs etc, gearing can be interesting (low top speed) if you don't have the right dif.

Literally thousands of threads on here and the wider net on the differences ebwteen bec and Car engined car (cec).

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http://youtu.be/sBloLoiaTI0

. Here is a vid at oulyon skip to about 5 mins as I had really hard slicks on

http://youtu.be/B1q0sOL_65c another one from a different angle

[Edited on 13/4/15 by raptor700]

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