Rootes locost
Oliver Coles - 6/12/05 at 09:32 PM
Hi
When i finish school i intend to build a locost with a rootes 1725cc engine and with Sunbeam rapier running gear. Unfortunatly i have no room to
build a chassie. does anyone know where i can buy a ready built locost chassie for less than £200?
Thank you
gary gsx - 6/12/05 at 09:38 PM
What year Rapier you got??
Viper - 6/12/05 at 09:49 PM
1725 gonna be a H120...at a guess
i used to have a series 3 a
gary gsx - 6/12/05 at 09:57 PM
thats what i thought me dads restoring on its a 1962 model i think 
britishtrident - 7/12/05 at 11:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Viper
1725 gonna be a H120...at a guess
i used to have a series 3 a
Not that many H120 around and most of those had the engines filleted out.
If it was an H120 the the twin 4DCOEs would and Holbay badge on the cast alloy rocker cover be the give away -- ordinary Arrow range Rapiers have
pressed steel rocker cover. Unless your engines has both of the above identification points more likely you have an ordindary cooking arrow range
Rapier on twin strombergs -- not a bad engine quite lusty should give better performance than a stock 1600GT xflo.
One obstacle with an Arrow range donor is accomodating the width of the overdrive gearbox, easy way round this is to fit a Hillman Hunter gearbox.
Finding a route for the steering shaft might also need some thought, and I also suspect the chassis diagonal brace "R" will need altered as
per some of the V8 Locosts around.
[Edited on 7/12/05 by britishtrident]
Oliver Coles - 9/12/05 at 08:52 PM
The donor car will be a 1970s Sunbeam talbot rapier or a 1960s Sunbeam alpine MK5
Viper - 9/12/05 at 10:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Oliver Coles
The donor car will be a 1970s Sunbeam talbot rapier or a 1960s Sunbeam alpine MK5
not trying to be funny but your choice of donor is not ideal, soley on the basis of finding spares, you could sell the alpine for parts to easily
cover a build using later model parts.
britishtrident - 12/12/05 at 09:15 AM
Some such things as a 70s "Talbot Rapier" the 68 to mid 70s car were the Arrow range, Both the Rapier and the entry level model the
Alpine being a Roy Axe styled design.
The range before that that which ran from the late 50s through to late 1967 were the Audax or "Series" Minx/Rapier also called the
"light car range" by Rootes.
zzrpowerd-locost - 12/12/05 at 11:20 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Oliver Coles
Hi
When i finish school i intend to build a locost with a rootes 1725cc engine and with Sunbeam rapier running gear. Unfortunatly i have no room to
build a chassie. does anyone know where i can buy a ready built locost chassie for less than £200?
Thank you
The only way i think you will find a pre built chassis for less than £200 is ask about and see if anyone has got a second hand or redundant one
forsale
Dont think you will fing a comerically produced one at that money??
May be wrong, has been known 