novacaine
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| posted on 27/1/07 at 09:22 PM |
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Anyone live local to me that has built a locost from scratch?
further to this thread, as recomended by wadders :
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=59270
i have decided to ask this question:
does anyone live in or near stafford that would be willing to oversee my locost project, as explained in the thread linked above.
cheers
Matt
[Edited on 27/1/07 by novacaine]
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but its sinking, Racing around to come up behind you again, the sun is the same in a relative way but
your older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 27/1/07 at 10:00 PM |
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If I was closer I would love too help, I'm sure someone will pop along.........
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jos
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| posted on 27/1/07 at 10:06 PM |
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i'm in shropshire and have built a mac#1 from scratch - didn't weld the chassis myself or the arms but everything else
andy harding is the nearest to you I can think of but don't think he's on here anymore. i'll drop him a line to see if he'd
mine me giving you his contact details
.: Motorsport / motor racing circuit / track wall art Apex Traxs :.
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gregf27
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| posted on 27/1/07 at 10:45 PM |
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Hi Matt,
I built my F27 from scratch, I am also in Shropshire , like Jos , give me a shout if ya need any advice, you'll get loads of help from everyone
on here, just accept the many "lows" with the many "highs" from building your project - and look forward to the greatest
feeling when its all finished and on the road and you tell others that you built it from scratch!!!!! 
good luck with your build!!
regards,
Greg
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macnab
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| posted on 27/1/07 at 11:53 PM |
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Just read your problem getting your folks to let you build your 7.
I think for now I'd simply gather all the parts together that you need, refurbish them and then put them aside. Most of the time I find is spent
just getting the parts and getting them ready. Very little time is actually spent fitting stuff to the car since their merely bolted on.
As for the chassis how about getting your friends involved and doing that elsewhere? Sneaky I know but would be a good team project and probably
easier done with others. Work on your folks about the car, show them for example how many race cars are built as space frames, maybe if you agree to
fit a cage they would be more accepting. By the time you've nagged them to death you can then produce the chassis saying that you got if off
e-bay...!
Persevere you've got 2 years to go anyway till you even sit your test. Can your folks really withstand that amount of nagging???
[Edited on 27/1/07 by macnab]
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locoboy
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| posted on 28/1/07 at 02:11 AM |
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Eh up Greg,
I was going to put you forward as an upstanding member of the local community and a fellow scratch builder to educate his
folks.....................
for gods sake dont let them know how long you were on the go for or they will never let him do it......................he will still be in their
garage at the age of 23
BTW had a good last day of the 'season' today had the strangest left and right i have ever had, and probably am ever likely to have 
ATB
Locoboy
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big_wasa
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| posted on 28/1/07 at 11:02 AM |
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The money you have would buy you chassis and a donor sierra. This would teach you some great skills that you could use on a scratch built car in few
years time.
Can I suggest you wait until you have your own garage to build a scratch build.
This is just my humble opinion
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 28/1/07 at 11:37 AM |
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When I was about 8 years old I went to the breakers yard with my dad while he got some bits for his car.
'Wait in the car and don't go roaming says he'.
Ok says I
When he came back he said
'What have you got there'
Some switches says I (about 20 of them all sizes and shapes & functions)
'You are very naughty, we should pay for them and I told you to stay in the car. What did you get them for anyway'
'I'm going to build my self a car with them' Says I, quite enthusiastically, emphatically and very proudly.
Anyway I am now 47 and have been building it now for the last 3.5 years (the first 1.5 years it sat in my back garden because I couldn't
actually get it into the shed to build it because I'd forgotten about the hieght of the rollbar & the Chassis wouldn't go down the
alley to the shed let alone through the door.)
I guess the moral is DON'T loose heart just keep the faith & if you can't go through the problem then go round it. My wife was adamant
that I was NOT going to have a tropical fish tank until the day she let me build her a Dresser, guess where the fish tank sits.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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