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[cptkirk]

Loving your work there Dave, I have managed to talk a buddy of mine into going halves on building a sprint car (cost and double driving) so will start some design work soon on mine, once I have something to show I'll start a new build diary.

[SukiDawg]

Woooo!!

You must be mental

[cptkirk]

We already have a mini shell to build with and he is involved in a fabricating firm so we will have some half decent machinery at our disposal for making the spaceframe and other stuff.

Undecided on engine position yet or where the drivers gonna sit, all we know is it gonna be bike engine driven and although we have to stick to the rules of the MSA for spaceframe design and construction we wont have to worry about IVA and all the BS.....Just need an ignition on and Start/Stop.

It'll probably take us next year to build it and then hope to be racing in the 2013 Sprint/Hillcimb championship.

If your anything like me I cant be ar53d with building in the summer as theres much more fun stuff to do, but here comes the bleak winter so batten down the hatches and lets get scribbling/cutting/welding (more scribbling and mousing for me though)...

[SukiDawg]

Quick snap as I was locking up tonight....

[Sean12]

its looking sweet mate ! some top work !!!

[SukiDawg]

Thanks Sean... Get on yours!!

(Feel free to throw that right back at me at some point as well... )


Been slowly cranking away on design this last week......

[mini mayhem]

minty fresh looking Top job

[yeti21586]

looking good!!!!

[dougie1142]

Great work, very inspiring to an aspiring engineer! I'll be sure to jump on a small little project again soon.

[SukiDawg]

Thanks very much for the comments everyone.

Having a good weekend on the practical side so far (all day today, planned same for tomorrow) but in the week I spent a decent amount of my free time on the design... Here's a few images for a Saturday night....

[SukiDawg]

Over the weekend, the plan was to get the shell properly mounted onto the chassis jig - positioned accurately in X, Y and Z (thats across, front to back, up and down to the non-engineers.... ) and also to clean up the floor the last bit underneath and possibly if there was time do the last couple of patches required on the NS inner sill....

I got through the lot I'm pleased to say... Now completely ready to start the next bit, which will be cutting the floor for the propshaft tunnel and making the floor strengthening beam to carry the centre joint... Need to get some CAD done in the evenings this week....

Lining up the shell with a plumb line...


Shimming under the shell supports to accurately position relative to the jig...


Properly sat in the jig at last... (for now - it'll all have to change once the main frame is in and I am ready to start the front and rear subframes)


Might not look much but I spent a serous amount of time to get the underside of the floor like this!


One of two new peices of new metal let into the inner sill - NS


i would like to thank these friends for their unwavering support...


Next up - some large bits of floor cut out... Normally page 1 in these build threads, I'm afraid its taken until page 12 in this one.......

[SukiDawg]

And, as I didn't manage to get the tunnel made in time by my friendly fab shop (they have slip rolls....), its not quite going to be cut-tastic this weekend after all... However, I did get the two halves of the new main floor cross member made this morning...

[SukiDawg]

WHoa...

So nearly had a shitty setback this week, but thankfully lady luck has smiled. I have an external drive which I keep all of my music and photos and other such stuff backed up on... I'm normally pretty good at backing up photos etc when I upload them off the camera and music is always on different devices anyway. I've not been that good with the CAD data for the car though - which I store on the C: drive as it can be accessed quicker by the machine. Its about the only thing that lives on the PC's internal drive.. which I last backed up about 6 weeks ago...

Anyway - went to turn the PC on Sunday morning and it clearly wasn't seeing the hard drive.. which was also giving out the click of death. Checked all the cables inside and they were all connected - which is about as far as I go with computer repairs.

Thankfully I have a computer ninja for a mate, so I called him on Monday and ran over with it. I dunno if it was the movement of transporting the box over, or more likely Ciaron's subconscious presence in the Matrix.. but anyway the casualty managed to boot itself up OK... if slowly.. and i could retrieve the files.


Apparently it took 10 hours to image the drive - and its making a squeaking noise.. But we're all good.. new one off Amazon twice the size was 40 quid. What a win!!

[SukiDawg]

Look what I collected at lunchtime.... Its sitting at the end of my desk silently willing me to get the saw out.....

[minidream94]

WOW that is some serious CAD design work there what CAD program do you use? we use solid works at college and i find that ok to use but could never design anything as good as that

Whats the final plans for the car? such as wheels, colour scheme, any engine mods, interior? but it looks good so far