Hi

We are searching for a chassis design engineer or a company, that can help developing a chassis for a new kit car.
the person / company must have experience and have worked proffesionally or semi proffesional with this type of job before.

The plan is to outsouce the chassis building, so companies capable of this kind of job is also welcome.

If we cant get a company / or an engineer to do the full job, then we will look into the possibilities of using people with specific skills like - one for the vehicle dynamics, and one for the strength design aspects etc.

We do have a very experienced guy (I cant put his name in here, but he is well known in racing) which will assist as a supervisor if needed.

The car will be for UK market - with IVA approval.
Both amateur trackday and show off in the streets :-)

The project is in the phase of building the buisness case - so not yet started.
And thats why there is a limited info for public.

If you, your company can do this, or if you know one which are capable of this. Then please let us know. Even recommendations of companies are welcome.

Please PM for contact details and further information

Thank you in advance

Universities are usually interested in things like chassis development as a practical exercise. I may be wrong but i think Nottingham uni has some motorsport experience.

Cool - thank you for the information.
We are not UK based so I dont know if they can work for us.
Here our unis mainly are allowed to work for national companies as there is some funding from the government.
But, we are willing to pay for the job, so its woth a try.
Thx
And have a nice weekend
R

IF you're looking at university's then i'd also look at Coventry and Bolton (ok, bolton is because they historically 15 years ago had a good motorsports department).

you could try Fibre Form near Hull.

They use to design/build ginettas and build bits for a fair few companies and single make race series(single seater stuff).

One guy sprung to mind when I read your post on pistonheads, there is a guy on here (doesn't post to often) as he's always busy, bought at least five kit cars to the market that I can think of off the top of my head, the latest none been BMW powered which looking at your profile fits nicely ?

Don't know how busy he is right now but worth a u2u message to "addison" top bloke fits the profile your looking for perfectly.

I'll 2nd what jon just said ;-)

yep sounds like a job for martin

TimC speaks highly of Track Developments.

Martin would be Mk Engineering he has a BMW already in development the Beem r if I recall

http://www.mkengineering.co.uk/mkbeamr.htm

what about the guy who developed the sdr v-storm and wr3? hes supposed to be excellent on chassis design and everything concerned! cant recall his name but a big write up in kit car mag a few years ago!
also matt at procomp seems very knowledgeable about all things to do with suspension design,setup,pickup points etc so might be worth a shot.
another guy to consider would be andy bates from AB perfomance, also very clued up and very very helpful.

Hey there - thanks a lot for the response.

I also have got some very interesting u2u's tonight - great.

I have not posted on PH - so it might be another guy.

I will have a look at the response over the weekend and then contact those which are most suitable. So we can get some quotations and ideas about how to process.

Just for infor - then Im really after someone that can do the development of a rolling chassis with a certain donor car. We do then need the chassis in digital to develop our body around it.

But Im no longer worried - there is a reason why UK is a big nation for racing and cars in general.

Take care out there - and thanks again.

Well - for your info
Its a litlle bigger than a seven.
actually like a Z4 - but slightly wider.

you got any rough ideas on the following.
1;weight.
2;size
3;power-weight ratio
4;donor vehicle
5;cost

if you're using a bmw SDV as suggested make sure you give Fibre Form a call.

Depending on the specific jobs that need doing, there's about 5-6 Cambridge engineers (graduated 2009, 2010) who may be interested. We're all in full time jobs between OEMs and F1 so it would have to be an on-the-side thing, but if you've got more info, get in touch, and I'll ask around.

Can definitely do suspension analysis/design, CADing of chassis etc.

Hi,

You can also contact Kingston University, they have a Motorsport department.

I studied there so it feels wrong not to publish this!

Good luck!

We do now have an official RFQ ready - so please let me know if you are interested in quoting for a chassis development.
pls use U2U and add refferences if you have such... thanks in advance

Have you tried Prodrive, Walkinshaw Performance, McLaren, Ricardo Limited?

All of those do high end bespoke design work.


Cheers,
Nev.

Hi Herwerk,

I use a specialised CAD program to draw tubular frames.
It will automatically calculate all the joints for a perfect fit.
It can also make pins and holes to the tubes, so they fit exactly on the correct spot even without using a tape measure.
And it works both on round and square tubes .

It looks like this:





This way you can build a chassis very quickly and easily.
Even for one-offs.

Also the software makes a 3D pdf of the drawing.

I have sent you a U2U.