Ally Mono Chassis well received at the NEC Classic Car show

[Joe T]

I think there will be quite a few more RCR cars heading towards the UK over the coming months. The stand was packed all weekend.
I will have a RCR70(T70) roller here before Christmas.

http://silicon.fastnet.co.uk/speciali

[GTRene]

looks promising I love aluminum chassis...and those big engines for power, yummie...
they also have those nice chassis for the GT40 cars, very nice
GTRene

[J111]

It's a gorgeous piece of kit, I've been following a build on Gt40s.com, but I think they're going to face considerable difficulties getting it past 'the man'.

"Destructive testing of seatbelt and suspension mountings is now required for all aluminium chassised vehicles. In the absence of an approved engineer's report for the chassis type seeking approval no SVA test will be undertaken."

Straight from VOSA, 19th of September.

Quite an interesting bit of kit coming through in the form of the RCR-P, vaguely Le Mans prototype-esque beastie with a tranverse lump in the back.

Edited by J111 on Monday 30th October 21:58

[Fran Hall]

Thanks for the compliments...

JIII as the chassis was designed and manufactured in Detroit and having the facilities we have at our disposal a compliant engineers report is not an issue.

We did ALOT of destructive testing during the development and all of that data is already in the can and available.. but thanks for the heads up though..this is all very useful information..

The seatbelt anchors currently exceed the US DOT standard and all the suspension mounts are actually steel with steel backing plates and grade 8 hardware as used in production cars.

Edited by Fran Hall on Monday 30th October 22:22

[J111]

Fran Hall said:

JIII as the chassis was designed and manufactured in Detroit and having the facilities we have at our disposal a compliant engineers report is not an issue.

We did ALOT of destructive testing during the development and all of that data is already in the can and available.. but thanks for the heads up though..this is all very useful information..

The seatbelt anchors currently exceed the US DOT standard and all the suspension mounts are actually steel with steel backing plates and grade 8 hardware as used in production cars.

Impressive

I had a feeling you might have taken an approach involving actual engineering, rather than a Midlands based kit car manufacturer's [alleged] 'suck it and see' lightweight design that triggered the VOSA advice/panic/mess (delete according to personal prejudice) - you seem very well set up, are the kits a side project from manufacturing parts for others ?

Edited for potential libel/name and shame

Edited by J111 on Monday 30th October 22:29

[Fran Hall]

No.... I am the owner of RCR and design/manufacture our own parts for our kits.
But with that said I am also manufacturing a kit for another company that has a very nice XJ13 replica using our technology and manufacturing approach.
www.sportscarfactory.com.

I am always interested in talking to any real COMPANIES interested in us designing and manufacturing for their projects.....much more affordable here(USA) than home(I am English)...unfortunately

Edited by Fran Hall on Monday 30th October 23:01