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[Artful Dodger]

so i bought a spaceframe shell.  has been used for a while and is in damn good shape considering! i will be making my own complete spaceframe chassis consisting of a 2L duratec (turbo) engine up front, a sadev sequencial 6 speed gearbox and independent double wishbone suspension as used on a caterham CSR.  i must be mad. wish me luck this is going to be a long one!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first job is to build a flatpatch at my work to build up the chassis on and make jigs of the suspension.  this is going to be a bonkers mental machine!!   PS dont ask for updates, this isnt going to be worked on flat out untill at least december, i still have the mini7 to finish building and to race!

 

wahoo!  cheers

 

 

[RossKnight]

wahooooo

[BronkoMini]

Omg I'm so excited!!!! Do you have any updates? ;)

[Tupers]

Mmmm sequencial sounds cool. Are you going to be making your own chassis or buying one and adding to it?

 

 

I've got big plans for a FWD spaceframe Mini. 

[Artful Dodger]

Haha making one from scratch bud, want to learn it and get better at chassis fab:P

First on the list

-make flat patch
-buy baleigh tube bender
-buy tn250 tube notcher

[Tupers]

I don't know what your machinery budget is but I can highly recommend the Pro Tools 105 tube bender that Stakesy's sell. Clicky

 

They also sell a couple different hydraulic ones that are the same price as a manual Baileigh one and their dies seem to work out at a little over half the price of Baileighs offerings. 

[Artful Dodger]

Ooh cheers for the heads up pal, will look into it!! As for cost I'm not too fussed. I said this is a no compromise jobbie so il buy whatever is necessary to do the job. Probably not a hydraulic one, how else am I meant to stay warm?

[benjy_18]

This will be cool, you can have a front engine rwd saloon and ill have the estate! Mine will be primarily a drift design though, may have to get you to sort me a gearbox though

[Artful Dodger]

Gearboxes are 6.5k I think. Sure?;)

[benjy_18]

Nope, sod that I'll be a straight cut 6 speed and just make a ridiculous short shift! I'm putting an engine in that cost me£100 to buy and only another 1000 to build and turbo so no, I'll pass on the g'box haha

[Ben_O]

Cool!

 

It looks like a giant r/c car shell!

[giacomo]

look forward to the updates buddy! if its anything to go by with your current 2 minis this'll be an impressive build :)

[One step at a time]

Any updates??😄
Looking forward to seeing how it works out.

[Artful Dodger]

Nope! Shell still sits above my workshop!