Yeah, they sound perfect. If I was going to do it again using ali instead, I'd use some type of screws for the floor. While I believe rivets are stronger in...
Point taken, Greg. It's not called a Locost for nothing. ... Brian ... From: "G Wellwood" <g_wellwood@...> To: <Locost_North_America@yahoogroups.com> ...
Keith, Wouldn't the side skins be more effective in making the frame rigid if you added rivets to the vertical portion of skin.The stresses would be shared...
Possibly, I don't know. That's what I was hoping to find out. It looks as if there might actually be room to put a bar from the tranny tunnel to the rear upper...
... The other option is a structural adhesive, you do not have rivets showing on the outside body panels and just as strong as rivets. The down side is any...
keith, do you ever wander over to the UK Locost community? There's a guy there who goes by the handle "Cymtriks" I believe, who has done a lot of structural...
Follow this link for a picture of a modified book chasis for maximum stiffness with minimal added weight. It also may solve your header clearance problem: ...
Thanks, Berk. That's interesting stuff. So those Y tubes work? I'm guessing a straight one might work better. Hmm, 1" or 3/4"? I don't spend any time in the...
Yeah, I think that those Y tubes probably do quite nicely at transfering the load from the tunnel to the suspension area. Although a straight tube would be...
... Another option is a bolt-in R tube on the right hand side. It appears that you may have enough room to place a tube between your headers and the steering...
Looking at the car, that does not appear to be an option unless the tube isn't straight. The problem isn't bolted vs welded (the exhaust can come apart...
Keith: Out of curiousity, do you feel like your car has significant flex in the chassis? If so, do you feel this is a problem when you drive or are bored and...
It's what happens when I read Weale and see references to the body skin being important for rigidity on a S2 Seven :) I do know that I ripped a hood latch...
I am having alot of issues with bracing for the engine compartment, mostly because of the intakes on onside and the turbo hanging off the other. I think my...
... Actually they are not that bad, you drill out the rivets and then use a heat gun to heat the adhesive area. Depending on which adhesive you have to deal...
What height do you guys use for the height of the windshield? I come up with about 15" for the flat windshield from the center top to the center bottom. That...
I'd sit in the seat and determine it from there. I'm gonna modify my windscreen to get rid of the top bar, because as it is, the bar is right in my horizon...
I'm running about 12.5" and it's visually a bit too tall from some angles for my tastes. I'm going to make another about 1" shorter and with a flatter top....
... from CMC. My car is a British made Locost and the scuttle has too much arc in it to fit. I'll make you a heck of a deal on it if you want it but it has no...
You gotta love living near a ski resort. The things people will do for a ski pass. I just picked up a 1983 RX-7 for the cost of a ski pass, 259.00. It gets...
Hi Whats the benefit of using welded double wall construction in the cockpit sides? 2x2 rails? 18 or 20 gauge tube? What about welded double wall on the entire...
Does anyone have a curved windshield on their seven, or plans to?? It looks to me that the Donkervoorts have that, but I have never seen one in person, just...
... It ... one ... Richie Marcin made a curved windshield with Lexan: http://www.richies.us/ It's a good look, much like the Superformance S1, but I don't...
John, I purchased a set of Caterham clamshells and modified them to fit my Locost (not book build). This involved widening the front by about 2 inches and ...
Peter Ogden of Oz has pretty much all the information available about stiffening the Locost chassis on his site: http://locost7.info/mirror/chassis.php He has...
Thank you for bringing that page up again. I've seen it before but during initial build it didn't spark ideas. Now after driven few times through corners I...
I've used Lexan and have found it to be almost bullet proof. Unfortunately, it scratches as easily as Plexiglass. Dennis Keith Tanner <keith@...> wrote: ...
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