quinnj3
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 09:09 PM |
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madgwick
just been on the madgwick website looking at the srv8 and clicked on the the main kit link.
click Take a look and let me know if i am just nit picking but if that is the main chassis surely
there's gonna be a lot of flex in the car.
my aim is to build my own locost wether it takes me a week or 10 years to get started, i'm sure i will sometime
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blakep82
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 09:16 PM |
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er, hmmm...
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DIY Si
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 09:21 PM |
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It looks to be an attempt at a ladder/space frame cross. Which hasn't worked.
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blakep82
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 09:23 PM |
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i think its called a backbone chassis.
mmm, tvr used them a lot i think?
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emsfactory
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 09:54 PM |
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tvr's backbones were a lot bigger though?
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Chippy
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 10:09 PM |
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Looks pretty average for a Cobra copy to me, cheap and chearful, but not the real deal. Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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blakep82
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 11:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by emsfactory
tvr's backbones were a lot bigger though?
probably, never actually seen one...
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Benonymous
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| posted on 1/4/08 at 07:26 AM |
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That would NEVER pass the torsion test here in Australia.
There's a lot missing from that chassis but I guess when you're obsessed with having a cast iron V8 and a replica Cobra, the handling and
flex issues wouldn't bother you too much.
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fesycresy
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| posted on 1/4/08 at 08:15 AM |
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I think that was the original Southern Roadcraft chassis from the early nineties, hence the SR part in the title. A well thought of car.
Similar to AK and the like. I went to AK to place a deposit on one a few years ago, couldn't wait to put my cash down, until I went for a test
drive 
Found that the Garder Douglas is more my cup of tea, this thing handles 
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02GF74
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| posted on 1/4/08 at 09:32 AM |
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a bit Land Rover-esque.
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Chassis - Constructed of 75 x 50 x 3.2 mm converging main members together with 50 x 50 x 3.2 mm section perimeter
bearing in mind that LR chassis starts off being 2 mm thick, this one is almost twice the thickness but with less bracing; seems a rather poor design
- too much strengh in some placesand not enough in others.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 1/4/08 at 09:32 PM |
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Pretty crap, like most of the lower budget Cobra chassis.
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