Very exciting, close to starting the build of the car.
I will start a build blog once I actually start.
Rob
My steel arrived today.
Very exciting, close to starting the build of the car.
I will start a build blog once I actually start.
Rob
The Blue Peter method.
Is that one you prepared earlier in the garage?
Don't think much of the build table supports!!
Yeah, I remember that phase, I thought "I've definitely lost it now!"
Friends would look at me with an expression of concern and sympathy when I said "I'm gonna build a car"
You have to complete it just to prove you weren't nuts!!!
+1 for the Blue Peter approach
Is that one an insurance in case you screw up on the self-built chassis? 
[Edited on 27/7/12 by Daddylonglegs]
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Originally posted by designer
Is that one you prepared earlier in the garage?
Mock up.
The white thing that looks like a locost chassis is actually my mock up I started making nearly two years ago, its made from 25 x 25mm wood, glued
with a hot glue gun and screwed together, I used it in conjunction with my 2D CAD drawings. It has confused many people and I accidentally didn’t tell
my best mates for about 6months it was wood, it was a funny joke at the time! Found it a lot easier to actually sit in something to visual the car,
plus some of the major changes I did to it cost nothing, would have been a disaster if it had been my steel I’d messed up.
My car is a middy and hence, no actual plans to follow, going to take a weeks holiday in October to actually begin the car, I have a few jobs left to
finish, the legs of my build table is one, painting the floor another.
I know its taken a long time to get this far, but last year I spent the majority of the summer ( and the best part of £800!) getting the garage
insulated and new doors etc… I didn’t want to start in metal until I was at least 80% happy with the overall design, I’m probably at about 85%
complete now with the layout of the major parts, I wanted a bit of flexibility in the design to allow creativity as I go, but also find it a bit
boring drawing every nut and bolt…. I just don’t have that much time in my life. So fingers crossed as I go it will come good.
I am sure if I get stuck you lot will be able to steer me. In an ideal world I’d like a rolling chassis this time next year. Which should be doable as
I have all the running gear pretty much already, fiat coupe rear hubs and Cortina MK5 fronts….
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Originally posted by b14wrc
but also find it a bit boring drawing every nut and bolt…. I just don’t have that much time in my life.