Scratch built car

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No Sound

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304 posts

128 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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The project is to build a car from scratch, a one off.
The cars criteria:
• Fast (for a road car)
• Good handing, brakes and steering.
• Safe
• Comfortable (water proof/heating as it will be in Scotland)
• Environmental unfriendly
• Cheap as possible to build (minimum out sourcing)
• Try to make it look nice (very hard)
Main manufactures components required:
• Engine: SBC
• Gearbox: GM 400
• Prop shaft
• Front axle S3 Jaguar
• Rear axle XJS (in-board discs with LSD)
• Wheels and Tyres
The next decision is to select the type of chassis for a car. I looked at three chassis, ladder, space frame and backbone. Decided upon a backbone chassis but would include a steel floor and doors with side impact protection.
So now I can start the project with a trip to the Jaguar scrap yard for the front and rear axles. After money exchanged and a nice delivery from TNT I am the proud owner of two old Jaguar axles plus a steering column. The first job was to sort out the front axle.







BMWNICK

80 posts

130 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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Good luck, this looks interesting.
I am currently picturing this being a road legal le mans style car with around 500bhp.

Amirhussain

11,486 posts

162 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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Best of luck, looking forwards to this.

danjama

5,728 posts

141 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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I am very intrigued. beer

M159V8

2,539 posts

145 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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+1000 man points to you, what a first post!

You will confuse a lot of PH-ers and cause many 'What car did I see???' threads to be started in 20-odd years hehe

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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Nice project! Watching with interest.

seumasbeathan

71 posts

129 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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Damn, I was hoping this was an old thread so I could look through it and see all the progress, but allas I will have to wait, bookmarked smile

motorhole

658 posts

219 months

Saturday 13th July 2013
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seumasbeathan said:
Damn, I was hoping this was an old thread so I could look through it and see all the progress, but allas I will have to wait, bookmarked smile
Just what I thought, subscribed smile

SamRS197

34 posts

141 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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seumasbeathan said:
Damn, I was hoping this was an old thread so I could look through it and see all the progress, but allas I will have to wait, bookmarked smile
I thought exactly the same. Looking forward to seeing this

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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Thanks for all the interest. I have been working on the project for the last few years and intend to update the build thread regularly. The car will be in a GT/race car type of style. To give you an idea of the car dimensions:

Approx. length. = 4m
Front width (body) = 1840mm
Rear width (body) = 1920mm
Height = 1285mm
Wheel base = 2510mm
Ground clearance = 120mm
Approx. weight 1250-1300kg.

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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The next job is to de-cage the rear axle so it can be integrated into the chassis. Because the car will be lighter than the Jaguar I have replace all the suspension units with Gaz s coil overs and changed all the various bushes, seals, shafts and also the discs.










150bhp

904 posts

171 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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Super cool! Bookmarked.

Barry38

73 posts

128 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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Mate - that's super ambitious. Good luck for your project. A lot of respect for you to doing that.

fiatpower

3,005 posts

170 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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Will be very interested in how this turns out. Looks very promising so far!

War Pig

1,516 posts

191 months

Sunday 14th July 2013
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Any idea of what it will look like yet?

GTiRichTea

119 posts

136 months

Monday 15th July 2013
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Cant wait to see how this will turn out, keep up the great work smile.

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Monday 15th July 2013
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Barry38 said:
Mate - that's super ambitious. Good luck for your project. A lot of respect for you to doing that.
Thanks, yes it is big project but by breaking into sections makes it simpler.

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Monday 15th July 2013
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War Pig said:
Any idea of what it will look like yet?
The shape will be generated by manufacturing a wire buck so the shape will develop as I make the buck.

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Monday 15th July 2013
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GTiRichTea said:
Cant wait to see how this will turn out, keep up the great work smile.
Cheers

No Sound

Original Poster:

304 posts

128 months

Monday 15th July 2013
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150bhp said:
Super cool! Bookmarked.
Thanks