Hello everyone, I am a new member to this wonderful club. I am a mechanical engineering student (3rd yr) with good practical experience about cars. I am also...
I don't know about Canada but in the UK the insurers usually base their prices on the nearest equivalent kit car. If you are building a seven style car they...
Les, I believe that what you are saying would apply to Canada. I have yet to find out however about the car I am building curently. I heard here (Ontario) from...
Hi Stan, The discussion of the rusting Lotus frames has moved to other Forums. I spoke to this issue on the Locost of America forum. See you there. Philippe.- ...
Hi there, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Ciaran. I live in Adelaide S.Australia, curently studying an advanced dip. Mech. Eng. I have been...
Hi there, Ciaran Here again.... Well, on to the next question. My every day get around car is a maza Eunos mx3. I was changing the clutch on the weekend and...
Fraser use this engine with an adaptor for the Ford Type-9 gearbox. http://www.users.bigpond.com/vidore/A%20Fraser%20Gallery.htm There's also a guy with one in...
Before I make myself a (yet another) frame that doesn't pass the traditional rigidity test (less than 1 degree of strain per x foot pounds of stress, where x =...
Jack, The welds do almost nothing to change the stiffness. The total deflection is an accumulation of the deflections in each of the components in the overall...
... Doh! You're right of course. I probably shouldn't have mentioned stiffness at all (re the round H tubes)...though square tubes are slightly stiffer in ...
... Makes sense to me. My missus had an Elan, and the above pretty well describes its chassis. If the entire tube structure of the driveshaft tunnel were...
I could have asked all these questions in one message, but this way seems less confusing than the double-aught shotgun approach. ... Yeah, it's a huge unboxed...
My incomplete build currently has a tube tunnel, to which I was going to weld sheets. However, I keep looking at it thinking I could eliminate the tubes if I...
Perhaps not.. Somewhere in the Archives/files there was(is?) an Engineering Thesis on Structural/torsional rigidity in a Locost Chassis.. It was carefully done...
Mine has a sheet tranny tunnel. Uses 19mm tubes at floor level only. The bottom is open, and I intend to use a bolt on 2mm Ali cover to make it a complete...
... I found <kitcaranalysis.doc> in there, which suggests a sheet driveshaft tunnel, and some mods to the front end bracing, will more than double the...
Jack: I infer from your post that you have made and tested at least one previous chassis. If so, what was the stiffness? I would like to know because there ...
Bill, I think that for a honeycomb structure to work as it should, all of it has to be attached to the cover sheets. Can you spare to lose 2" of foot well...
... Good inferring! It was over 30 years ago, when I was first trying my hand at this design stuff. I thought I could build a greatly simplified Formula V ...
kitcaranalysis.doc is the result of FEA by Cymtriks There is another document http://f4.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UMhXRDKyHIOMcNCWoc5h6W6xFyGlfNJoWRYiJMo9 ...
... Understandibly, there are questions re "analysis" and "conclusions" with THAT document. Sadly, to me it seems an errr.. 'copy' of the Real Thesis work I ...
... Gosh Bare, it's not like you to go off half-cocked criticising something you don't know the facts on. As Bryan pointed out, <kitcaranalysis.doc> was...
http://plastics.dupont.com/plastics/pdflit/americas/design/DCI388.pdf Not directly on Locost. But the principle, analysis, and differing stiffness of various...
I have done some rudimentary investigation into the torsional stiffness of the Seven chassis. This was accomplished by standing with one foot on the top of...
Esko: You are absolutely right about the honeycomb must be bonded to each covering panel. And the loss of footwell room is a real issue. My plan was to make a ...
Hi Bill, I was thinking, Two places you might try for honeycomb panels. they are used both in Aviation in interiors and cargo containers, and also in Marine...
John: Great Ideas. I work in Medley and have gone to Simmons many times - I never thought to ask about honeycomb! Thanks again. Bill Box John wrote: Two places...
Possibly BUT I have read both.. The earlier Thesis work was competently done, all the Parameters of the study were clearly laid out the methodology quantifieed...
... That indeed sounds competent. I read the 1st doc I found and asked if there was another with the very features you describe, and I gathered that indeed...
Jack, My analysis was done about seven years ago now, I posted my early results on here. kitcaranalysis was originally a cut and paste of my own notes and the...
