Project 7UP - MX5 Locost 7 Build

[ToolsnTrack]

Remember me saying I felt a bit sad that my welding was more or less finished? Well that was short lived..



I knew that at least having plans would help with complex things such as wishbones, but to date I had not ever had to properly bother with angle cutting tube steel. The chassis was all simple box section and the TVR chassis had been repaired with pre cut sections, so this was a new challenge. I decided to try just about every technique there is for the "fish mouth" cuts, starting with an oddball old school internet fix for the upper fronts... Having since had issues its clear that starting on the front uppers has presented more issues than it solved! Lowers being a lot simpler probably should have been the easiest to learn on.

[ToolsnTrack]

Logic is a principle I rarely apply in this build, but moving onto lower wishbones would certainly be the logical step here.

this was a walk in the park compared to the uppers. Simple measurements and a big chunk of meaty welding made things easy.



As a side note, something I have since noticed but didn't really pay attention to at the time was the "thumbs up" feature on YT. Around this time there was a steady stream of 2-4 people who would give a "thumbs down" on my vids. The comments were always positive so with no way of really knowing why this was the case, its always bamboozled me. After all, why give negative feedback to someone with no clues on how they can improve, if not to just do so out of pure malice. It bothers me now as much as it did then, which is to say, not at all. All the same though, it does make me ponder why people feel the need. It also makes me wonder why YT bothered with the function either.

[ToolsnTrack]

This is the problem with deciding to just "go build" something without a CLEARLY and well planned direction. I wanted to build a budget car that could lap fast times on a circuit. Therefor, need cheap and light seats.

Well, there are cheap and light seats and there is the extreme...



Lets call that "phase one" of buttock-receptacles.

[ToolsnTrack]

Seat diversion over, back to proper car things. Here's an interesting footnote on this not discussed on the video or anywhere else...

Mounting the diff marks the furthest I have ever got on building a car. Now, that statement could be said true for just about any task when building it for the first time, and of everything I have done up to now! However this isn't my first time, is it? No, this is me "passing the windmill" so to speak, and venturing into new territory. Everything from here on out is fully new to me! Well, in the context of building a car I suppose. I modified the chassis to take an MX5 diff on the "phase 1" build back about 10 years ago (or page 1 of the thread), but the project never went further than that. No, this is fresh tarmac...

[jayj83]

so much working going into this