I am such a lurker on this forum, I felt I should say Hi. The amount of information I've learnt and taken in via the search has made my build
easier for sure and with only one thread posted where I knew in my heart what I was not doing wasn't good enough. It has saved me plaguing the
forums with stupid questions.
I look forward to joining as a contributor on this forum as the use has been worth the donation.
I am building a DDR Motorsport GT4, the donor for this vehicle is an MR2, not the chassis itself so it's not one of those kits. I choose the
kit because it's closed cockpit and never been done before and I love a challenge and I don't know how to give up until I've
completed what I want.
Below is my blog, it's light hearted affair of how I'm getting on.
Tomorrow will be the first time I take it off the custom dolly I built and place the car on the ground... Very excited and then it's time to fit
the engine in. I've placed a few photos below but the blog has far more and detail.
Thanks both. It's going well so far. Just interesting having to solve issues with no guide and no one else who's gone through it before...
But that's the challenge :-D
The solutions on this forum help with a lot of things!
lovely looking kit, like a mini (affordable) McLaren F1!
do you know what the weight is of one of these? Ideally would like to know the weight of a rolling chassis without engine/box as could then consider
different engine donors.
I'd love to do a build on one of these at some point.
lovely looking kit, like a mini (affordable) McLaren F1!
do you know what the weight is of one of these? Ideally would like to know the weight of a rolling chassis without engine/box as could then consider
different engine donors.
I'd love to do a build on one of these at some point.
cheers & good luck
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
I don't know a rolling chassis weight. Delivery weight listed for the shipping container was 750kg, that includes a very heavy and beefy pallet.
The total weight including engine (Toyota 3s-gte) is said to be around 900kg, depending on wheels, sound deadening etc.... The chassis is one of the
heaviest and beefiest I've seen on a kit car, it took 6 of us to lift it off the pallet! You could say over engineered but it's designed
to take engines giving out 1000bhp, so that's good to know in itself.
The engine bay is bigger then a standard mr2 bay and they have fitted some v6 and at least one v8 done in mr2s. So does give me some options.
I used to have a jap import mr2 turbo. Had a look at the ddr but opted to build a seven style kit car. Stripping an mr2 to assemble another mid
engined 2 seater that's around a tonne, seemed like a small step at a great cost. The car looks fantastic though.
quote:Originally posted by deezee
I used to have a jap import mr2 turbo. Had a look at the ddr but opted to build a seven style kit car. Stripping an mr2 to assemble another mid
engined 2 seater that's around a tonne, seemed like a small step at a great cost. The car looks fantastic though.
Part of the draw for me, as I took it apart I could learn the mr2, but so far barely used any parts as I keep replacing them.
quick walk around the build for anyone who is interested. Took all the rear back off today in the garage to fit the engine...or should that be...start
to fit the engine!
Satisfying feeling isnt it, It didnt fire as I had no fuel in at this point just testing the wiring and thanks to the MR2 having a rear fusebox /
relay holder it really is only 5 wires from ignition / battery as the rear loom does all the work with the ECU. Tonight put the power into the CBS
from battery and ACC and that was fine too.
Started tidying it all up tonight because it looks a mess quickly, anyone's advice on keeping wiring neat is appreciated!
...right off to contribute as the search here has been amazing!
Not quite an engine start up video, but hopefully next week once the custom exhaust / silencer is installed!
Here's a little walk around video, some pipes and wiring need securing further but I have a couple more bits of wiring to do and test and
I'll finally be done!
Getting there, test fitting body and windscreen in.
God bodywork takes so many hours to even get close to lining up! I've done just passenger door so far and spent about 12hours on it to get it
pretty good.
That is a nice looking car. Interesting left field build choice. Also the standard "how much did it cost?" to get across etc. Just
interested because of the taxes etc.
Nice,Keep at it.
quote:Originally posted by TPG
That is a nice looking car. Interesting left field build choice. Also the standard "how much did it cost?" to get across etc. Just
interested because of the taxes etc.
Nice,Keep at it.
We'll there wasn't much change from £15k, that's for it to be on my driveway, because of UK taxes and the exchange rate mainly.
However if you have a VAT company and with current exchange rate probably closer to £11k currently. It's the vat that's the killer!
Also you wouldn't want the windscreen with the kit as its not E marked and I had to have a mould made from mine to produce E marked
screens....mine was a nessacity but I guess at least others get the benefit of E screens being easily made.
So again kit would be cheaper without a screen, less import tax etc...
To be honest if I was to do it again, I'd cut out things I can buy in uk to save cost and would make it much cheaper because of the vat on top.
For instance buying RHD lights as well.
I took on this car for the challenge in being the first, although challenging it's been good
