Building a kit car for fun and to track... instead of using 355

Ade,
speak to/PM Mark Collins and James Shand. Both built P4 replicas.

 

ade not knowing you that well if you are not very mechaaically minded person who messes all the time and has lots of tools and equipmqent i would not bother as it will be alot cheaper to buy one as its not as easy as it looks 70% of people who start these projects never finish then

 

Dear Comrade Steve M8,

This is quite excellent advice. The pleasure of such projects almost invariably metamorphose into pain and to such a degree that it eventually becomes a sublime pleasure to divest one's self from them.

These things are an absolute nightmare to get through the regulations. It is at this point that so many kit car builders 'run out of steam' and sell them on at a consequential loss.

With kind regards,

512 Tea Are - Tea Arse - Tear Arse

 

When I bought my previous house it came with an abandoned kit car project. The frame was in the front garden, and the body in the back garden. The two pieces would not fit together and the chap just gave up.

On the other hand, my neighbour built a 3 wheel kit car from scratch. It turned out a treat and only took 18 months, but he was retired and worked on it full time.

 

I can give you a contact for either new / secondhand lifts - PM me if you need details.

 

Ade, take the time to read through this in detail - it describes the build process someone I know went through to build a replica Diablo - a lot of it will be relevant to what you would be undertaking. You can see that he heartache he went through, and why many people fail to finish these sort of projects:

http://www.lamboreplica.co.uk/indexframe.html

PS this guy runs a car modification business, so knows what he is doing, still he almost gave up on the project....

 

I started building a Cobra kit about 6 years ago, but got bored and left it where it was, you either have to commit to finishing one of these, otherwise you will lose a lot of time,effort,skin,blood and of course money, but if you do finish the reward will be great, you will be driving/racing a car that you yourself built, the feeling is great.

 

Why not save the time & effort and buy and ariel atom?

 

While the Atom is great peice of kit, it also cost £30k. I'm assuming Ade doesn't want to spend that much on an occasional use trackday car?

 

Ade ive built a few kit cars at home for friends but dont anymore due to lack of time,you'll need a SVA manual to help you,i have the manual if you want to borrow it m8,if you need any alloy panels let me know i can get them lazer cut to any size also alloy fuel tanks ade,

Dale.

 

Ade

Having re-built a P4 replica I agree with a number of people on here that it is easy to see how one could give up. I am nearing the end and it is a satifying result. Many many hours in the garage !!!!

The guys at NF auto have been a great help to me and you can buy almost anything you need from them. www.nfauto.co.uk

Good luck
James

 

You could do worse than to look at Caterham!!

Rock solid residuals + on a current reg plate not Q once through SVA

for 20K you could spec a really nice roadsport or something like the Tracksport they built 18 months ago. Do a search for Caterham Tracksport

Dave

 

You could build yourself an Elise from a crashed car and put a 2.0 Duratec / Honda / Audi 1.8T in it for that sort of money......... ?

 

Ade,

I have 4 wheelbarrow wheels and Stevef just gave me a FS1E engine that needs attention ( he carnt fix it) If we can get an old F40 shell we have all we need to get this project off the ground.lol


Seriously m8, good luck with it, what about a VW golf with no suspension wound up wild turbo lump pumping out 350 bhp , set of compomotives , lowered and you can wipe most out other cars on most trackdays.....

AS SEEN AT EASYTACK BRANDS recently.....

ps driven by 70yr old nutcase.

 

ADE
free advice buy a car dont start this project only 30%of people finish them i am being serious now i dont want you to say in a year you were right
my mate has a garage started a westfield on a new chassis 4 years ago had £9000 in it unfinished in parts not costing his time took £3500 for it just before xmas dont do it if you are the limetrees i will tell you all the pitfalls

 

Whilst not disputing the above PM/speak to subirg as he has just finished his Westfield and was at Oulton Park last weekend with it.

 

westfields are great track toys have a few friends with them but us eldery overweight gents dont fit in the bloddy seat and that was a widebody one that i tried

 

I never said it was a good getaway car for stealing all the pies from a bakery!

 

PIES PIES PIES PIES PIES PIES PIES THAT WORD IS TABOO ON HERE SOME PEOPLE TAKE OFFENCE AT THE PIE WORD BUT DONT WORRY MATE IT DONT BOTHER ME

PROPER FERRARI'S HAVE 12 CYLINDERS IN THE REAR

 

Is there a specific kit you're looking at? 850kg isn't that light really, and for a track toy, getting the weight right down is a very good idea.

I'm obviously somewhat biased, but Aztec's suggestion is a very good one.

 

so does that mean all us fat b4stards need a remote control track car to keep the weight down thats not fun