bertus76
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 03:13 AM |
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Donor car For US / Canadien Builders
In Canada the suggested donor cars are not available. I used a 1980 Olds Cutlass
It worked great, but you will have change a couple dimensions
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 03:16 AM |
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makes a very big car 
you'll need to reduce your avatar size, but looks pretty good 
edit: lol you have
[Edited on 16/3/10 by blakep82]
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bertus76
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 03:18 AM |
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Sorry, and just did
I thought it would do it automatic
My car is 12" longer, 6" wider and a bit taller
And to handle the power and torque, i didn't use any aluminium and round tube in the chassis
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 03:24 AM |
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good work
welcome to the forum btw its a bit late in the day (3.20am now, i really should get to bed lol) to get the proper LCB warm welcome from everyone
though 
theres a few canadian builders on here, well, you're the third i can think of
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sucksqueezebangblow
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 09:24 AM |
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I'm guessing that one of the best donors for US/Canada would be a Miata (MX5).
P.S perhaps I misunderstood your comment about round tube but round tube is actually stiffer and stronger than equvalent size square tube.
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FFTS
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 09:26 AM |
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Go to bed!!!!! No.. not you !! You should be getting up! No not you... the one that I meant before, not the one in the other country place.
Oh do whatever you like 
Welcome to the forum. I live in the mad house 
Chris.
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 09:29 AM |
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always impressive when people break the mold and have the skills to adapt the basic principles.
looks good!
welcome to the forum.
Craig
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 10:40 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by FFTS
Go to bed!!!!! No.. not you !! You should be getting up! No not you... the one that I meant before, not the one in the other country place.
lol me then?!
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 03:13 PM |
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Welcome to the madhouse, by the way you will learn a new language here, called English, harder to understand than Canadian EH!
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bertus76
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 04:00 PM |
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Thanks all,
Btw, I replaced the 19mm round diagonal tubes with 25 mm square, the same as the rest of the frame.
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eddie99
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 04:06 PM |
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As said above, i would have thought MX5 would be best!
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bertus76
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| posted on 16/3/10 at 04:13 PM |
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I am sure the mx5 works great.
But since I was going to build one, I thought i might as well use a V8, it wouldn't take anymore time and its something different.
The Olds and Chev monty carlo are based on the same frame / parts and very cheap and plenyfull
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sucksqueezebangblow
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 12:07 PM |
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What about uprights/hubs drive train etc, arn't they a bit heavy for a locost?
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bertus76
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| posted on 18/3/10 at 05:39 PM |
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Not to bad, I made my car 48" wide. and it worked fine with rear axle from that car. The V8 is a bit heavy. I put mine on a scale and the weigth
is about 1750 lbs / 800 Kg with a full tank of gas, and all the body panels made out of steel. It is also 12" longer.
Once i put in the proper engine, it will shave off another 60 lbs.
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RK
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| posted on 19/3/10 at 10:36 PM |
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Whatever works! Mine is regulation book sized, but Miata parts and Nissan engine. Still found it hard to do here in Canada (near Ottawa)
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bertus76
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| posted on 20/3/10 at 10:38 PM |
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Here in Saskatchewan it was a very easy process to get the car registered. I was pleasantly surprised. The next couple cars i will build after this
one might use a different drive line. But the spindles worked out fine, i would use those again since i have the jigs build for the control arms
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