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The following thumbnails are pictures of my Locost build as it progresses.
Semi built chassis - note diagonal R will it stay there or not? Time will tell.
Chassis almost complete and painted to protect it from the rust monster. The chassis was built by Jeroen at Technical Support Centre. Hailsfield, Telford, Shropshire The Carbon fibre nose and the mudguards to match were made by Sculptural Engineering, Ringwood, Hampshire.
Autocad drawing of a jig to position front suspension brackets. Apparantly works well but I haven't got wishbones to try in mine yet. Also R12 saved version.
images/mk-PEDALBOX.dwg drawing of prototype pedalbox
Some pictures of my new garage which I now realise is essential if progress is to be made. Note the mini sized bottle of argoshield gas on the mig. The pressure behind the gas shroud is better than with the tiny bottles to you can weld outside without the sheild blowing away. Also me grinding the last bits of old bracket from the axle prior to fitting up the new radius arm brackets.
Some Rolling chassis pics. Well once you make the bits you have to put them together right? The wheels are RS / Capri Laser alloys.
This shot shows the bit chopped out of the rear of the transmission tunnel to accommodate the diff casing. This happened because the chassis was made to the book and I used a different axle. The first indication of a flaw in The Plan. The radius arm brackets are only tacked in place untill the whole geometry thing is assembled and can be checked.
Some pictures of the engine in position for the first time.
You can see from the first picture that the line of the exhaust manifold will be higher than diagonal R. I plan to manufacture a 4 branch manifold to clear this member and the pedal box. It is tempting at the moment to think that I could fit a mirrored diagonal R under the inlet manifold - it would need to be demountable but I think it would do no harm at all to complete the triangulation of the engine bay. The engine mounts were made by half cutting some 50 x 6mm flat bar at the bend positions. This was bolted to the mounting rubbers and the engine manhandled into position. When the position was set the channel sections you can see in the picture were tacked to the bent flat bar and to the chassis rails. The channels are cut from a bit of 50 x 100 x 3 RHS I found in the dump zone at the back of a local industrial estate. The half cuts were welded up with plenty of juice to ensure a solid corner as were the vertical connections between the channel and the flat bar.
Various views on the pedalbox and aluminium scuttle frame Radiator in position with sexy Avo coilovers. The top brackets have been redesigned since this picture.
Homemade racing style seats. 2mm aluminium sheet formed over 100mm plastic drainpipe. You need to make a seat and a back then weld them together - it is that difficult. I got 2 seats from a 2 x 1m sheet. I welded some alluminium angle to the underside which bolt to steel floor mount brackets. The holes in the headrest are for pretty pretty purposes only. I'll need to cut holes for the harness and fine tune the edges under the armpits with a file when it is all finally put together.
MONTHS LATER
Fuel tank made from 2mm aluminium
MORE MONTHS LATER
I bought a digital camera so scanning is old technology already thankfully - what a chore. These pictures show the car almost complete with the bonnet in place. The steering wheel will obviously have to go!
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