This is a bit of a retrospective project thread, as it's pretty much finished now, but I thought I'd drip-feed old updates on here to get people's opinions and comments.

December 2013:

Right, I've been after a project like this for ages and this one finally came up at a good price, so I went down to Stockport last Sunday and came down with this. It's is registered correctly as a bike engined Locost and comes complete with folders of paperwork and a spare 893 engine.

I know it looks like a bit of a shed at present, but I'll get her back up to standard before long.

If anyone on here is any good with auto electrics, I'd gladly use your help!!

Rough plans:

Sand and protect the chassis in full

Get the engine running sweetly

Fit new front suspension (rears already fitted)

Refurb or replace the floor with aluminium instead of steel

Make a whole new loom

Source and fit a decent set of bodywork

Refurb the minilites and put decent tyres on

Maybe fit a flappy paddle shifter

Maybe fit a full cage

Tax & MOT and enjoy in the summer

I'll let the pics do the talking:

Rear sanded and painted

Rear sanded and painted:

That 'might' be a 'little' bit quick! :clap:

Very nice.

Will keep an eye on your updates

BEC's are awesome fun,covered 1700miles in mine in last few months,even boring roads are fun!

Chassis part painted

Front stripped down

Powder coated, shiny shiny

Rebuilt

Brakes rebuilt

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That's enough updates for tonight!

Thanks for the comments so far!

Looking good.

Just be aware some people have had the alloy camber adjusters fail on the top front wishbones,you can get steel ones off the latheman on E-Bay or Rally Design.

Cheers mate, didn't know that!

What rear axle have you got?

New bodywork

Harnesses cleaned

New bearings front and back

My tiny Mountney steering wheel versus the old mammoth one for a more sporty feel, lol

Rubber chequer plate matting installed

This should be a good one to follow.

Only thing that puts me off stuff like this is crash protection. Was looking into mrs200's last night.

What crash protection?! Haha. It's more of a weekend B road blaster than a motorway hack. I'm doing as much as I can to be 'noticeable' in it. The guy I bought it off took it to LeMans from Stockport! Don't think I'd fancy doing that trip mind you.

Cheers mate, didn't know that!

What rear axle have you got?

  

mines using irs,so uses Sierra diff and shafts.

The alloy camber adjusters can crack around the nut shaped part on the insert,if that happens the insert is then free to slide out of the top wishbone.

This should be a good one to follow.

Only thing that puts me off stuff like this is crash protection. Was looking into mrs200's last night.

You can't think like that

Just need to drive them like a biker rides a motorbike,expect all cars at junctions etc to have not seen you!!!

Mines the yellow one,carbed R1 engine,my m8's is a ZX12R powered MK Indy R

True. Think I need to build one in the back garden then crane it over the fence

Seats in (the previous owner cut the top of the passenger seat off to reduce the drag apparently!)

Roll bar welded on and ally flues tank in

Then I really splashed out and bought a sheet of 1x2m carbon fibre sheet to make the side panels

New gasket and seal

Spare engine

Dirty carbs

Cleaning

Looking better

Now to put it all back together

C&C welcome

Cycle wing mounts being bent into position

....and on

Wheels refurbed......

Made a rear diffuser.....

Getting bodywork to fit (huge job)...

Getting there, finally looking like a car at last!

Carbon fibre vent to help with rad cooling (and to aid fitment of the nosecone)

Headlights installed and bodywork getting there...

Inbetween times, I've had an auto leccy rewire the car, I think that guys a magician and worth every penny of the fortune I gave him!

Also purchased a PC heat sink and fan to help cooling of the RR

Colour going on....

Nice colour.

Vinyl wrap?

Thanks, it's certainly nice and bright!

It's plasti spray (rubber paint). I was going to use paint and lacquer, but thought it'd chip and crack easily as the fibreglass flexes, whereas this spray has loads of flex in it.

Also, it peels off nice and easily too if I ever want to change the colour!

Almost done...

This looks cool!

Thanks very much!

It's now virtually finished and freshly MOT'd this week.

There are a few small jobs to finish, but I'm happy with it.....

Tempted to sell it now and start a new project!

Managed to grab a quick driveway vid the other day...

https://vimeo.com/user27702151/locoblade rev