The basic idea is a cab forward design, with a round tube chassis and very little fiberglass bodywork.
Engines: any fwd engine or flat four engine placed in the middle.
Just a very rough doodle on the spur of the moment......
Just thought about a modern update to mid-engine locost seven, and so here is my proposal.
The basic idea is a cab forward design, with a round tube chassis and very little fiberglass bodywork.
Engines: any fwd engine or flat four engine placed in the middle.
Just a very rough doodle on the spur of the moment......
Nice looking.
Looks a bit like my planned "atom" type middy (R1 Power).
Where would you get a screen like that?
I am just planning a pair of bike aeroscreens on mine
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Originally posted by nitram38
Nice looking.
Looks a bit like my planned "atom" type middy (R1 Power).
Where would you get a screen like that?
I am just planning a pair of bike aeroscreens on mine
I like it a lot,
pretty clean lines with a well balanced blend of bodywork and exposed structure. IMHO!
Nice work.
Ciao!
that looks really good. well balanced and a good solution to the 'how do we make a new 7 with a rear engine' debate. Well done.
(and I have a degree in product design)
Mine wont look anywhere near as good as that.
ROUGH!! ROUGH!! I could take a week and not draw something as good as that!
Nice! 
Write a book and call it "Build a Middy for £250", sure to be a big success. Ray
It's a nice piece of art, but if it's Locostesque then I've a few issues with it. To me Locost means that a semi-intelligent-educated
person in their shed at home can make decent example of the design so...
1. The Atom-type round tubes need big radius bends which will probably be too hard to do accurately for the average home builder.
2. The welds on the chassis will be on public display which means they've got to look nice and most peoples don't.
3. There has to be some sort of expectation that the body work could be made at home. Even if most people buy their fiberglass parts off of the
shelf. The body looks too complex for that to me at the moment.
4. To be flexible with engine choice go for a bike engine or the rear suspension design will end up too specific to the power plant it needs to fit
around.
Keep going with the thought train though the world needs more variety!
I do agree with all of the above except point 4.
To ensure it is locost, a car engine would be essential with bike engine an option.
Im not against bec's, i think they're great but not very locost. How many of us cec builders got our donors for near to nothing?
What are Lotus lawyers like
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Originally posted by balidey
What are Lotus lawyers like
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Originally posted by Doug68
It's a nice piece of art, but if it's Locostesque then I've a few issues with it. To me Locost means that a semi-intelligent-educated person in their shed at home can make decent example of the design so...
1. The Atom-type round tubes need big radius bends which will probably be too hard to do accurately for the average home builder.
2. The welds on the chassis will be on public display which means they've got to look nice and most peoples don't.
3. There has to be some sort of expectation that the body work could be made at home. Even if most people buy their fiberglass parts off of the shelf. The body looks too complex for that to me at the moment.
4. To be flexible with engine choice go for a bike engine or the rear suspension design will end up too specific to the power plant it needs to fit around.
Keep going with the thought train though the world needs more variety!
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Originally posted by balidey
What are Lotus lawyers like
If you look at the history of the 7 (there I said it, so sue me!).
It's littered with lawsuits about who has the right to make this or that who's copying who and is generally a sad, sad story.
The point about the picture is that if you were to make anything even remotely commercial that looks even vaguely like the picture then get ready for
the 'cease and desist' order to be served!
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Originally posted by Doug68
If you look at the history of the 7 (there I said it, so sue me!).
It's littered with lawsuits about who has the right to make this or that who's copying who and is generally a sad, sad story.
The point about the picture is that if you were to make anything even remotely commercial that looks even vaguely like the picture then get ready for the 'cease and desist' order to be served!
, . I think that your design is quite different - and quite a bit better looking.
The similarities are -
both mid engined
both minimal bodywork
exposed front and rear wheels
A few more views might provide some inspiration.
A view from above would be especially useful if any one actually wants to build one