Build Your Own Sports Car for As Little As 250 Pounds and Race It!

by Champion, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781859606360
• ISBN10: 1859606369
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Build a roadworthy two-seater open sports car for a fraction of the cost of a kit car! Using standard tools, basic skills and low-cost materials, this volume shows you how to make the chassis, suspension and bodywork, and advises you on how to modify and use inexpensive but serviceable mechanical components. Contains sections on improving handling, information on how to get through the Single Vehicle Approval test, and builders' own stories.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(8)
Preface to new edition	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(4)
PART 1: SKILLS AND TOOLS
Skills required	14	(5)
Tools and equipment	19	(13)
PART 2: SOURCING WHAT YOU NEED
Parts and materials	32	(10)
PART 3: MAKING AND MODIFYING
Making the space-frame chassis	42	(26)
Steering	68	(3)
Modifying the rear axle and propshaft	71	(6)
Making the front and rear suspension units	77	(10)
Adapting the exhaust system	87	(3)
Modifications to the cooling system	90	(2)
Making the fuel tank	92	(4)
Making the nose cone and mudguards	96	(3)
Body panels	99	(15)
PART 4: PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER
Final assembly	114	(29)
Interior trim and seating	143	(3)
PART 5: GETTING YOUR CAR ON THE ROAD
Legal matters	146	(2)
The road test	148	(3)
Getting through the SVA	151	(3)
Chris Rose
Locost handling	154	(3)
Rory Perrett
A disabled person's view	157	(3)
Wally Woolven
PART 6: GOING RACING
Racing a Locost	160	(31)
PART 7: APPENDIX
Builders' cars	180	(10)
Useful addresses	190	(1)
Recommended reading	191