Build your own Supercar?

[GroundZero]

Factory Five are an established kit car company and their latest offering does look good.
https://www.factoryfive.com/whats-new/f9r-concept-...

You purchase the chassis, body and electrics and then start bolting it all together. The engine (along with a few other elements) are then bought separately by the customer and its a choice of what is able to fit in the engine bay. Choice is based up on how mental you want the car to be of course.

Factory purchase could be well under the £80,000 mark then add in the engine cost and you could have a comparatively cheap supercar.
Building it yourself you'd need the tools, time and space but I read elsewhere that they should be able to be built by the average Joe home mechanic enthusiast. So if you've built a Westfield/Caterham type kit car in the past then this may be your perfect "step-up"

[GroundZero]

nikaiyo2 said:

LOL

Would I drive a high performance car build by me? NO chance!

It would take 30 years for a start

I've spent plenty time helping mechanics when I used to race but I also wouldn't feel safe building something like that myself.
I'd happily give a Caterham type build a go and as long as I become happy with torquing up connections correctly and having them checked out, only then would I venture out on an airfield track day with plenty run off.

Building a car Supercar is a different game altogether. I guess the idea behind this company is that the home mechanic does the 'easy' stuff and then hires in a competent mechanic to do the 'tricky' stuff. This will hide an amount of cost that the build will require if not competent yourself..

But I do like the idea of kit cars. They offer a route for high performance cars at a much cheaper rate than manufacture prices. And if you've built it yourself you don't necessarily need to be reliant on paying for dealer/garage maintenance/servicing as you'd have the intimate knowledge of your own build.

Edited by GroundZero on Thursday 10th September 13:52