Hi everyone....am pretty new to this site and dont know if this will work. If it does the pic is of what i have just spent all evening doing. Like the
title says, nothing new...just my version.
(Kidding my self its helping with the design work for my degree too 
)
If it doesnt work then there is a tiny version over there <<<< but a bigger version on my site....see link below. (Be warned its pretty
crud at the mo!)
Am wishing i had a tv here so could have watched that speed cam program...did you see it when top gear tried to beat the cameras?
Good job, are you using solidworks?
We have this currently:
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Looking good!! 
Like i say mine isnt finished yet....
I am using Pro Desktop 2000i2 
, it was free for ages, but i have a feeling you cant get it any more.
It seems a lot of people use solid works, it any good? and if so where can you get it?
Cheers
Stop mucking around with the PC. In an evening, you could tack a REAL chassis together
ATB
Simon
Hi Simon,
I really wish i could.... 
Am at uni and have nowhere to do a real one yet, damn. Maybe over the summer if i can get the money...that then leaves me with the problem of what to
do with it when i get back to uni again....
Mackie,
You appear to be powering your car with a large anvil- is this true? 
James
P.S. I thought it was only those of us with Pintos that were doing that!
True,,,,LOL
yeah, we heard most people were using a pinto "boat anchor" so thought we'd go one better.
if we ever run into a truck it's going to get a nasty surprise.
So then out of the pinto and x-flow which is the better engine for the locost? (Im keeping it simple, when i get round to it)
I know the pinto needs mods to fit into a normal chassis, but that doesnt bother me.
Just wondering what peoples preferences are and why...since you all refer to the pinto as an anchor...
one pinto problem is the exhaust being on the drivers side, make it harder to get the steering and brakes to fit.
quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
one pinto problem is the exhaust being on the drivers side, make it harder to get the steering and brakes to fit.
..and the weight!
Use a nice v6 like mine. It may weigh a lot but at least it has reasonable power. If I was building a 'normal' sized car I'd be going
for the 1.8 (130PS version) or 2.0 Zetec on running either megasquirt or 40's.
Chris
other thing about a pinto is the silencer is on the drivers side so when you get out you can burm your legs as opposed to the passengers with a x flow
Whereas we V8 chaps have the luxury of burnt legs all round! Woo!
personal opinion i'd rather fit a crossflow than a pinto.
unless you pickup a cosworth head to fit onto a 205 pinto block...
Ned.
trouble with the crossflow, is powerfull ones are becoming difficult to find and are a pain to drive, unless you have a stock item then they are bit
limp.....
i would suggest Zetec (if you want ford) is the way to go, they are plentifull, reasonably powefull and not a lot of dosh...
I have gone with a pinto coz i had the bits to make one go well.
Tim.
quote:
Originally posted by ned
unless you pickup a cosworth head to fit onto a 205 pinto block...
Ned.
One thing to bear in mind with the Zetec route is price. Theres lot's of extra bits to buy to do it properly - Shortend sump, aftermaket ecu,
etc, etc. Even things like inlet manifolds for twin weber's - which are plentiful and cheap for pinto's & xflow's - cost a lot more
for a zetec. Of course you don't have to buy this stuff if your talented enought to fabricate it! Sadly I'm not.
As always budget is the only limiting factor to your imagination
Steve
[Edited on 29/1/04 by thebutler]