got the old style chassis with the marina front end was just wondering how hard this would be to change to wishbones or if theres a kit or anything or if i would need a new chassis any help would be great thanks
quote:
Originally posted by frankycopp
got the old style chassis with the marina front end was just wondering how hard this would be to change to wishbones or if theres a kit or anything or if i would need a new chassis any help would be great thanks
no its the car john bonnett had for sale some time ago he has some pics in his archive
Christ!
You don't like to make it easy on us to help you do you!!!
There's a fair few pics here:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=gal&user=John%20Bonnett
So I'm guessing it's this:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=showphoto&photo=PC130003%20(Medium).JPG
In which case.... God knows! I would suggest asking John... he must know more about it than the rest of us.
Cheers,
James
Marina already has wishbone suspension, only the damper lever forms the top wishbone.
Easy enough to replace it with a fabricated wishbone and seperate telescopic damper, just as BL did on the last Ital vans
quote:
Originally posted by James
So I'm guessing it's this:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=showphoto&photo=PC130003%20(Medium).JPG
it under no offer refused dated feb this year
Found a link to the advert:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=59367
However there are no other pics that I can find, so you really need to take some pictures of the chassis and post them to give us a clue of what you
want to do.
I've only just seen this thread. I'm sorry there has been so much confusion over this car. Just for the record,
It was built by my son, not I, as an A Level Design Technology project. I bought him the donor Cortina, steel and welder. He did the rest.
The build started with the Cortina front subframe complete with suspension and rack etc and this was welded to a scratch built chassis. There are
three types of chassis, spaceframe, ladder and backbone and, my son being even more of a belt and braces man than I am, built all three into the same
chassis. This means it is heavy but very very stiff. Rear axle is 3.9:1 Cortina 1600 located by parallel trailing arms. Suspension at the rear uses
Maestro spring/damper units. Not sophisticated but easy for my son to build.
My son and I competed in the car and I as a geriatric managed a second in class in the large engined kit car class in the Wadham Kenning Curborough
Championship. It ran 13.1 sec 1/4 at Santa pod in a Run wat u brung meeting.
In short, it handles really well is simple and above all, rugged! Personally, I would not change it.
John
I forgot to post a picture of the car..jpg)
Ah, I see it, was sold on Ebay with a Fireblade engine, so major changes have been made.
John