Anyone ever built a chassis to their own design, and built a car from the ground up?

 

Just mucking about Im toying with the idea of geting a manwel zed thats been rear ended and ripping it apart and building my own kitcar. Doesn't have to be road leagal. would be my own chassis design and body style.

 

Would be mid engined and the chassis a cross between gt40 and diablo. Inside would put a Zed dash and not sure how the outside would look (sh1t most likely :D ).

 

What are your thoughts???

I have looked into a project like this and decided to get my skills up by building a locost, which I am currently doing.

 

To make a self built car, I recommend looking at http://www.dpcars.net/

 

This guy had the idea, designed the car in CAD, built the car and every step of the way has documented every step. It has taken him 4 yrs to do and you can read about it in detail.

 

My own thought are how will you get the power to the wheels? a Z32 is front engined RWD, there are not many gearbox/transaxles that will cope with enough power - that are cheap enough for you to get it wrong a couple of times..... and you will!

 

A porsche G50 box will set you back the thick end of 5k for a good low mileage box.

 

Please however do not think I am trying to put you off, I am not and I would love to see it happen. Just because I couldn't find a solution to the 'get the power down' question doesn't mean I can't be done. I am just saying I don't know how to do it cheaply enough to make it viable.

 

If you have loads of money to throw at the project, Quaiffe will put you a bespoke box together for about 15k which will suit your needs, or an off the shelf box for around 10k.

 

Hope this helps.

I have looked into a project like this and decided to get my skills up by building a locost, which I am currently doing.

 

To make a self built car, I recommend looking at http://www.dpcars.net/

 

This guy had the idea, designed the car in CAD, built the car and every step of the way has documented every step. It has taken him 4 yrs to do and you can read about it in detail.

 

My own thought are how will you get the power to the wheels? a Z32 is front engined RWD, there are not many gearbox/transaxles that will cope with enough power - that are cheap enough for you to get it wrong a couple of times..... and you will!

 

A porsche G50 box will set you back the thick end of 5k for a good low mileage box.

 

Please however do not think I am trying to put you off, I am not and I would love to see it happen. Just because I couldn't find a solution to the 'get the power down' question doesn't mean I can't be done. I am just saying I don't know how to do it cheaply enough to make it viable.

 

If you have loads of money to throw at the project, Quaiffe will put you a bespoke box together for about 15k which will suit your needs, or an off the shelf box for around 10k.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Thats great thanks for your thoughts. :bow:

 

Ive not loked into it that far up to the point of how things will work, just the idea so far.

 

Just as a thought, how would you get any gearbox to put the power down, in all mid engine kitcars the engines and boxes are not bespoke thy are taken form other front engine cars and adapted, why cant this be dont with a zed engine/box?