Yeah very true, I got the bias system to make sure the brake system could be modified to make sure the braking bias was perfect and then locked. For
anyone else doing the same, remember to lock off the lock nuts as well as put a sticker near the brake fill up point saying do not alter the brake
balance.
Here's our latest update guys. The Locost is currently packed up due to a unit move. Hoping to be in properly for the end of this month, and we
have some new bits bought that should push the project on nicely!
I noticed on a very recent video of yours doing the exhaust that it was cut to length when fitted, but your rear arches aren't fitted, so it may
be worth a trial fit again to make sure it all clears ok.
I posted on one of your videos but just wanted to say again, this video series you are doing has rekindled my desire to build a car. I first started
about 20 years but then other interests of the female variety took over. 😂 I’m sure many here can relate. I’ve found I have some spare
time now and have been looking for a decent long term project. Last week I made a start by buying a scrap MX5 which I’ve just got in the garage
today. This evening / tomorrow I’ll start to strip the body off it. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Keep up the good work!
my aim is to build my own locost wether it takes me a week or 10 years to get started, i'm sure i will sometime
Shamefully, and hopefully not to the detriment of this thread too far, I have taken my eye off the ball on updates here. So much so, we are around
episode 90 of this. For the purposes of the story and keeping the thread coherent as a full timeline, I might just keep the links going and update
here unless any mods object?
In the meantime, here's where we got to as of today...
I can do better... I have many many videos!
The roll bar is high to clear me and a helmet. It will look better once the rest goes in and the front tapers down..
I'll get back into updating this thread then, hopefully one a day wont overload you guys too much. Something that will become VERY clear over the
course of the build but starts to creep in around this points is...
DIVERSIONS. I absolutely love a diversion. I am a diversion tart.
I am also a "for sale page", "auction site" and basically any other method for wasting money I do not have tart. So the positive
thing about building a project on this scale is, when boredom browsing for parts begins, you can still make sure you are funnelling spurious
unnecessary parts in for a common goal, rather than just buying bumf for projects you will never start. That being said, the decision to buy an entire
bodyshell for this when there wasn't a single aluminium panel or paint droplet on the chassis was a bold one.
My argument, as most will agree with, was that it was too cheap to refuse. Well, stay tuned folks, because this purchase bites me in the Arsen Wenger
for many more episodes in ways you wouldn't believe....
Lets get this out the way. Sometimes when you do Youtube, you sell yourself into things for the sake of success. In this instance it was leggings.
Skinny men do this un-ironically. I should not. Lets leave it there.
Anyway, suspension brackets were more or less the order of the day here, along with some catch up. You probably noticed an entire garage change an
episode or 2 ago. That knocked the flow quite a bit on the car, and sapped a LOT of time getting back up to speed....
So with a more or less completed frame, sheeting sections in aluminium is the next order of the day. Ultimately, I had none of the required materials
to do so, but a motivation to kick this phase of the project off and provide some form of update. Enter the road sign, an airbag discharge, and
general nonsense that was informative but did little to move things forward:
...that's unfair. It covered a lot of the theory we will skip by when blitzing the floor. I'm sure that a few of you have tried something
that you haven't worked with before so kick off a trial run that you KNOW will end up in the bin anyway!
