HOME MADE CAR, SOMEONE BUY IT!

[Gold Digger]

wife's dumb a** commentary made me stop watching.

QFT.


Why must people talk to children like that? Seriously? Baby talk drives me nuts.

I talk to my kids normally. Always have, always will.

[Red coupe]

yeah the way i would shave weight off a miata is to cut the whole front down and build a tubular pipe for the struts to mount to. kinda like this then do a full a$$ front end bumper, fenders, hood. and take the doors out and weld a bar in across there, then put a a$$ door outer sheet on. that gets rid of the side windows fiber a$$ trunk, cut the rear fenders out and put fiber a$$ in, take the whole dash out and blower and stuff, just have the gauge cluster. and just have to seats.

Forgot to mention, the 2280 is with all glass replace with lexan and the doors skinned down to sheet metal. You open it from the inside by pulling a cable attached to the latch release.

It is very, very difficult to build a "Locost" as it were with a suspension that's really worthwhile. The math just isn't run very often. Even the Atom apparently has some pretty glaring flaws. So that ebay Atomish car? Fun. But I'll a$$.

Yeah, this is really my issue with it... or with other cars like it.
It looks well built, an I sure it could be... but you could be the best fabricator in the world, unless you have a VERY firm understanding of vehicle dynamics and the time and money to build and test several iterations you would be better of in something produced by professionals.

TBH, I even have a problem with people who think doing something like pulling miata front and rear sub frames and slapping them on their project is the answer to sorting suspension out... Sure you may maintain a very functional geometry at one end of the car, but that geometry was designed with a specific track width, wheel base, CG height, weight and balance in mind. If you are not also preserving these aspects you are really not preserving the integrity of the suspension design and your back to ending up with some random setup that is hopefully somewhere in the "good" ballpark.

[idahotuner]

lol i have tought about using a 240 front and rear subframe with an sr20 but the more i think about it i might was well buy an ariel or a lotus if i want something like that

[Red coupe]

Why would you ever use a 240 front subframe?
Woot for strut suspension

[idahotuner]

lol cause it be easy haha. but that was before i looked at all the different locost builds

[Red coupe]

Come at me bro!

[AZhitman]

Cool and all, but I'm with RC - I can't help but think you'd be better off starting with a wrecked C5 and removing everything that isn't absolutely necessary.

Removing weight > adding horsepower.

[hannibal]

He built his own car from scratch! That trumps stripping a factory made car any day...

[idahotuner]

Come at me bro!

just need frame rails and strut mount and a way to tie them together

[Red coupe]

Come at me bro!

just need frame rails and strut mount and a way to tie them together

I don't know what the hell that post ("mine") means... Pretty sure one of the kids at the shop hopped on my computer, but the edit/delete buttons are gone now...

Oh well

[idahotuner]

haha happens lol