Quantum
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 09:53 AM |
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MK Engineering
In my search for a build left-hand-drive Locost for max. £4000, I mailed MK Engineering a few days ago.
Does any-one know if they are quick repliers ? Or should I call them instaed ?
Greetings,
Jochen aka Quantum
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UncleFista
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 10:04 AM |
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MK do NOT reply to e-mails, call them between 9am and 9.15am, thats tea break time 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Quantum
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 10:24 AM |
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D*mn, just called MK.
Not possible to have one build for £4K
Anybody other ideas ?????? (read: begging)
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interestedparty
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 11:33 AM |
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Quantum, have you considered buying a second-hand 7-style car on the UK market and converting it to left hand drive. Should be possible within your
price range, most of the standard donor cars have LHD equivalents from where you could get steering rack etc
John
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list-- I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed-- who never would be missed!
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Quantum
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 11:37 AM |
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Yep, I thought about it, but I'm a computer-man, I really don't know anything about mechanics and should find somebody who's whiling to do it for
me. 
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johnston
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| posted on 25/7/02 at 08:16 PM |
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thought that was the idea of the book so people with no idea could build the car
go on give it a go!!!!!!!!!!
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jcduroc
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 posted on 26/7/02 at 04:11 PM |
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Hi Quantum (!)
Where do you live to want a LHD Locost?
I live in Portugal and I am in the process of "starting to conceive a design that I shall draw and hopefully build...some day." 
Of course it will be LHD and even if I have to SVA it in UK (not possible so far in Portugal) I'll buy a Sierrs donor here.
I'm also trying to buil-up an web site to share my concept w/ all of you.
I may disclose that the chassis will be rather different from the "book": mostly round tubes, (almost) fully triangulated; I will look for someone
in UK (Laserman?!) or in Portugal to build it.
It shall have inboard IRS all around and full GRP body (no sh...t metal).
Well, dreaming...
João
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Quantum
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| posted on 28/7/02 at 07:14 PM |
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I live in Belgium. Not so for England...
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James
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| posted on 29/7/02 at 11:51 AM |
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Would it be the end of the world to use a right hand drive car in Belgium?
I lived in Holland for 18mths and my parents quite happily used their RHD cars there for that time.
James
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Luego Racing
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| posted on 25/9/02 at 05:50 PM |
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Hi Quantum, give us a call on 01487 815643, we can definitely do you a LHD chassis etc, for us to build it will be difficult for 4K. Give us a call
and we can talk.
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rallyslag
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| posted on 25/9/02 at 06:00 PM |
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im failing to see the main problem?
cant you just follow the book chassis designs and use LHD components and just build it on the opposite side?
coz if you live where LHD cars are most common then surley your donor car will be LHD anyway?
and with the shape of the locost narrow as it is you could use the RHD version just as well id assume
Old chinese proverb: "If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
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Metal Hippy™
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| posted on 25/9/02 at 06:01 PM |
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And don't forget your 5% discount.... 
Sorry Luego, just pulling your legs..
President of the Non-conformist Locost Builders Club. E-mail for details...
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