RE: Polish Man Builds McLaren F1

[AMG Merc]

Good man, nice to see Lee Noble is working again

[chiefski26]

good effort.

[xjr88]

AMG Merc said:

Good man, nice to see Lee Noble is working again

Are you blind? This is quite clearly Al Melling's next creation!

/coat

[hahithestevieboy]

I've often wondered why someone hasn't had a good go at doing this before. Maybe producing parts like the glass etc and making it look decent is too hard?? Because i've always thought that the layout of the F1 made alot of sense and the styling brilliant. I think that a quality machine like this would be a very interesting alternative than the parallel designs lambos and ultima gtr.

[Flanders.]

Erm, like others have said, thats a v12.

[ridds]

There's a V12 but if you look at the engine that's mounted in the chassis, that ones a V8.

[FishFace]

skid said:

briancorish said:

Er, I'm pretty sure that's a V8, not a V12...

Are you fking blind?????

skid said:

SleeperCell said:

Err thats pretty obviously a V8 engine, not a V12 and an automatic??

Are you fking blind?????

skid said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Shame the PH journalist couldn't tell a V8 from a V12, poor motoring journalism.

Are you fking blind?????

[Zad]

Any sign of a replica Flemke to go with it?*




*May not resemble actual product

[Streetrod]

Looking at the chassis, you can’t see the quality of the welds but the design is very good with triangulation in all the right places. The suspension design also looks good considering it is made out of round tube. I give the guy 10 out of 10 for effort.

Where these copies tend to fall down on is the glass as an original F1 windshield would probably cost more than he has spent on the car already. So if I was him and I presume he would have done the same, he would have acquired a windshield as close to the original as possible first and then worked back from there. It is possible to get custom glass made but it costs serious money.

And yes I too could not understand how people thought that engine was a V8.

[RobCrezz]

Gad-Westy said:

camel_landy said:

RobCrezz said:

camel_landy said:

I think the bit you're missing is that IIRC one of the original McLaren F1 design requirements was to have an engine delivering >100hp/litre.

BTW - I'm another one who would give A+ for effort. : )

M

I thought It was designed to have 550bhp at a certain weight - it ended up over 600 but a little over the weight. I doubt they would have been to fussed about bhp/ltr as it doesnt make any difference...

Quite probably... I don't know/can't remember. (don't really care either...)

However, I do distinctly remember one of the comments when launched was about them wanting 100hp/ltr. I'm assuming that this was what was being referred to and as there were a couple of people confused by this statement, I thought I'd just fill in a blank... Just being helpful : )

M

Crucially though the McLaren F1 had to use an N/A engine to meet its targets. I don't think there are any 200bhp/litre roadcar engines and the Jag XFR example given is supercharged.

and its only around 100bhp/litre too.

[Lordbenny]

Reminds of another Polish effort.

From This:


To This:



To This: .....AMAZING!





Infact, I'd go as far as saying I prefer it to an SLK!

Edited by Lordbenny on Thursday 23 April 17:16

[norman156]

ridds said:

There's a V12 but if you look at the engine that's mounted in the chassis, that ones a V8.

Which picture? There's one with the engine mounted in the chassis but it's obscured by the gearbox

[squareflops]

ridds said:

There's a V12 but if you look at the engine that's mounted in the chassis, that ones a V8.

I heard its a 1.2

Edited by squareflops on Thursday 23 April 17:16

[Justayellowbadge]

Lordbenny said:

Reminds of another Polish effort.

IIRC, he built that from pictures/models of the concept versions and teaser pics of the production car, and it was on the road before a production SLR was released.

[sl55amg]

leon9191 said:

Nickellarse said:

Dapster said:

That F1 is ok, but it's not as good as a really decent, properly faithful reproduction.

I just laughed out loud at work at that. Hilarious.

Is it me or does the side profile look like a duck?

That is a real shocker, i would classify it as p!ss poor in fact!

I wonder what its based on? Anyone?

It is clearly based on the Ssangyong Rodius.....
http://www.ssangyonggb.co.uk/Pages/Page.aspx?PageN...

[fastgerman.com]

Without reading all the posts, is that not an Ultima chassis? Apparently the Mclaren F1 prototypes used the Ultima chassis and a mighty fine one it is too, if nothing more than a space frame.

[RJJ]

Well done to the chap, an excellent effort. Can you imagine the years planning and gathering information, what parts to use etc. The man has petrol in his blood and we as the audience should applaud a cracking effort.

At least he put pictures up unlike the people in the kit car thread where a lot of hot air was being blown around!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... F1

Edited by RJJ on Thursday 23 April 17:37

[mrssumner]

I don't think it looks too bad at all, but then I've never seen an F1! Can't see why he's getting a shed load of criticism on the Jalopnik w/s?

Good luck to him.

[bakerjuk]

Is it me or do all you regular posters not have a clue about cars... COUNT THE PIPES ON THE MANIFOLD.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... OH and its on both sides..

Before you go posting drivle at least think about what you are saying...

[Justayellowbadge]

bakerjuk said:

Is it me or do all you regular posters not have a clue about cars... COUNT THE PIPES ON THE MANIFOLD.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... OH and its on both sides..

Before you go posting drivle at least think about what you are saying...

Because the pictures have changed - it originally showed the V8 from where he sourced the gearbox.