PaulBuz
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 01:01 PM |
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I have currently spent at least 1500 hrs on my car. My 5th year, & its not finished yet!
Maybe I'm just slow, but for me this is as much about enjoying the journey, as actually getting there.
If I recall the book says that when the chassis is built you are 50% there.
No chance!! I would estimate that the chassis is only a couple of percent.
Every week I set my self a mental target for what I want to achieve & I reckon I get 25% of it done.
I have built up & stripped down again so many parts of the car that I could now do it in my sleep!.
Don't rush it.. enjoy it & make something that is truly unique to you
ATB
Paul
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goodall
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 01:50 PM |
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i'm building this because i have always want to completely build a car for myself but i also want to build her to be my first car for when
i'm 17 next year.
i was going to build an awd car at the start but i don't think anyone has ever finished one, so started to think about just going rwd but rwd is
just so simple i want a challenge, because i like a challenge and i have about 4 months of nothing comeing up in my life soon and if the exams go
badly wrong (which i hope doesn't happen)i'll have an other few months of nothingness to contend with.
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D Beddows
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 02:17 PM |
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So you honestly reckon building a car (forget how the wheels are driven for the moment) completely from scratch in 4 months isn't actualy a
major challenge in itself then.......... 
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kb58
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 02:24 PM |
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9+ years for me and about 3000hrs.
Building a car in four months is possible only if you already have all the parts and tools, have done it before, get help... and work at it 10hrs a
day.
[Edited on 11/7/06 by kb58]
Mid-engine Locost - http://www.midlana.com
And the book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/midlana/paperback/product-21330662.html
Kimini - a tube-frame, carbon shell, Honda Prelude VTEC mid-engine Mini: http://www.kimini.com
And its book -
http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/kimini-how-to-design-and-build-a-mid-engine-sports-car-from-scratch/paperback/product-4858803.html
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NS Dev
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 02:32 PM |
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I built my first chassis in 2 weekday evenings and a day and a half at the weekend..........
but that was with the use of a cast iron jigging floor that I could bolt the whole chassis down dead flat to, a cnc bandsaw, cnc plasma profiler and
full fabrication shop facilities.
My new car has taken 2.5 years and is now about finished!!! (and I bought the chassis for this one! )
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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goodall
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 05:10 PM |
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yeah i hope it won't be too much for me to do in 3/4 months.
i have my dad to help me with any of the major things i can't do yet, hes got 30 years or more experiance at worken ford cars.
thats about 3 solid days then you build the chassis in, thats sounds too anbitious for me, i'd double that and maybe add somemore on again
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kb58
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 07:48 PM |
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Little brackets and electrical take up far more time than their small size would imply.
Mid-engine Locost - http://www.midlana.com
And the book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/midlana/paperback/product-21330662.html
Kimini - a tube-frame, carbon shell, Honda Prelude VTEC mid-engine Mini: http://www.kimini.com
And its book -
http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/kimini-how-to-design-and-build-a-mid-engine-sports-car-from-scratch/paperback/product-4858803.html
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wilkingj
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 posted on 7/11/06 at 08:16 PM |
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Built my Viento over 18 months with 5 months off for a operation on my hand.
Mostly evenings and weekends.
If you buy all new bits, ie no recon or cleaning up to do, then you will reduce the timescale.
BUT DONT RUSH IT...
Make it look excellent... not just good or "thrown together"
Take your time, as a well finished car that you can boast "I built that" will get you far more girlfirends than you can handle.
It will be the cheapest "Fanny Magnet" you could ever own 
PS... put a decent engine in it or a Bike engine, so it will trash the other Magnets (cars) in your area.
Then you will know exactly who is inadequate, and it wont be YOU
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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dnmalc
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| posted on 7/11/06 at 10:53 PM |
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18 montyhs in chasis done and now starting the panelling. What you have to include is the fact that almost all jobs have to be done two or three times
to get to the level of finish that will satisfy you.
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D Beddows
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| posted on 8/11/06 at 08:52 AM |
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This car isn't going to cost just £250 as well is it by any chance? 
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NS Dev
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| posted on 8/11/06 at 03:26 PM |
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Hasten to add, that 3 days to build my chassis was to an excellent standard, but equally I would say that building a chassis to plans is perhaps 5% of
the work of building the car!!
For example it took as long to prep and paint as to make it!!
I was also working part time as a fabricator in a prototype workshop so was kinda used to kncocking bits up out of steel, and we had a cad station
just devoted to the cnc plasma too so I made all the chassis brackets in 15-20 mins (cnc pressbrake too which could bend all the brackets in one
stroke in one line)
sometimes with I still worked there!!
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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goodall
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| posted on 9/11/06 at 12:05 AM |
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it would be great if i could build it for £250 but i think we all know that is rather the impossible!!
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lexi
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| posted on 11/11/06 at 12:07 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by goodall
it would be great if i could build it for £250 but i think we all know that is rather the impossible!!
But mates...That`s why we got so many immigrants coming here. Wow what a country do you know you can ..........for £250?
Alex
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chriscook
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| posted on 11/11/06 at 10:40 AM |
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To answer the original question:
"Twice as long as they first thought"
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Valtra
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| posted on 13/11/06 at 12:22 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chriscook
To answer the original question:
"Twice as long as they first thought"
I wish !!!
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kb58
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| posted on 13/11/06 at 02:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chriscook
To answer the original question:
"Twice as long as they first thought"
Well, I thought it would take me five years, max... Nope, it was twice that...
Mid-engine Locost - http://www.midlana.com
And the book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/midlana/paperback/product-21330662.html
Kimini - a tube-frame, carbon shell, Honda Prelude VTEC mid-engine Mini: http://www.kimini.com
And its book -
http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/kimini-how-to-design-and-build-a-mid-engine-sports-car-from-scratch/paperback/product-4858803.html
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