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Robin hood lightweight owners/builders
piddy - 17/12/09 at 05:21 PM

I am posting this for a friend

Great news for all Robin Hood lightweight owners!


The good news,
I have just had a conversation with an experienced motor sport engineering company who currently build chassis for locosts etc, after explaining the problem with our tubs they are willing to build 'a solution chassis' for Robin Hood lightweights.

The bad news,
He wants a minimum of five orders and a 10% deposit from owners to develop the chassis. (The deposit is non-refundable)


I will give him my lightweight tub for designing a chassis, but i need to get others signed up!

appox cost will be between £300 - £500 for a direct fit chassis.


If you have a lightweight at any build stage and want to install a steel chassis please email me
for more information and so I can pass on your interest.

Many thanks
RB

barley_green_garage@btconnect.com

[Edited on 17/12/09 by piddy]

stevec - 17/12/09 at 06:07 PM

I almost copied my mate and built one of those, its a great shame about the issues with them. Mostly caused by the shabby build of the one taken to SVA at Southampton I think.
My mate had the original draft set of unedited DVD's of the build manual. What a laugh watching that idiot with the air riveter with no safety container for the rivet tails on it. sure enough he got one in the eye Never seen such excessive use of a hammer.
Steve

DRC INDY 7 - 17/12/09 at 06:17 PM

I had the unfortunate pleasure of buying a lightweight it was the 2nd worse error in my life that i have made

Good idea just let down by poor design and quality of the alloys


Still i saw the light should have got the mk in the first place

I lost £1000 on the lightweight and it gauls me that the directors of greatbrittish sports cars were employed at robin hood Richard being one of them

Volvorsport - 17/12/09 at 06:32 PM

im on the list of creditors , or was , its all been divvied up .

MikeRJ - 17/12/09 at 10:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by piddy
appox cost will be between £300 - £500 for a direct fit chassis.


That seems like a very good price if they are well made. Is this going to be a conventional space frame style chassis to take the lightweight running gear?

Grimsdale - 18/12/09 at 08:21 AM

This seems a pointless exercise to me, the robin hood zero is designed to take the panels from the lightweight?!

MikeRJ - 18/12/09 at 12:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Grimsdale
This seems a pointless exercise to me, the robin hood zero is designed to take the panels from the lightweight?!


Is the Zero chassis available separately for similar cost (it's not shown as such on the web site) and do all the lightweight suspension parts fit the Zero chassis?

Talon Motorsport - 18/12/09 at 01:29 PM

Email or phone Robinhood/GBS and ask them how much a chassis is.

twinturbo - 18/12/09 at 01:58 PM

so what was the problem?

TT

gdc - 18/12/09 at 07:54 PM

hi all i have 2 of the lightweights .
both were built by myself and were unlike the 1 mentioned earlier were constructed with the bonded panel method , ie all the panels were stuck together and rivetted .
both have been used over the past 3 years and have had to have additional strengthening added as problems have arrisen .
i bought the one that failed , and cut it in half to get rid of it .
one of mine runs a 2.0 zetec with bike carbs and megajolt , the other runs a 2.0 st170 engine with jenvies and meggasquirt , both are still on the road and strong .
yes there were probs , the main one was that the car was designed or concieved to be a track day special , that changed when the management changed , but they elected not to tell us .
the general suspension layout is good and if it could be incorperated into a steel chassis the it would prob be good , i have stuck with the ally monoque because i love the concept .
if you want to see more of the lightweight i post on rhocar as gdc and there is a link
to further info .
the zero sort of takes the panals but the suspension is different .
my latest project is to add the fully indipendant suspension of a lightweight to a locust chassis its built and almost finnished .
finaly drc and i go back a long time , please mayby its time to move on .
we know it wasnt perfect but it can be made to be a great car .


graham

gdc - 18/12/09 at 08:29 PM

sorry ment to say that mayby the rhocar site may give more leads to the prospective purchacers of this new chassis .
graham

piddy - 21/12/09 at 07:23 PM

Hi Graham. I've posted this on the RHOCAR site as well.

gdc - 21/12/09 at 10:56 PM

as is the zerophi martin .
its a great idea for the guys that are still
building .
the prob i see is that its not as designed
but as vosa wont accept monoques then it is poss the only answer .
i wasnt aware of a great no of builders still building the lightweight though ?
the only ones i know of have done the build and are on the road .
so i may be of no help to track them down .
its a good idea though .
but it will become a zero though ????????
as the design follows the lghtweights design and is as a locost in size
as is the zero.
but if it helps the guys still building the lightweight then i am all for it .

graham