Originally Posted by dumoulin
what a chance to see a project like this.. i was trying to do the same with a MK1 and coswrth 2rm . i am eager to see how you gonna deal with it. if you have some idea can you share it so i can by the way start mine at the same time.
what does 2rm mean?
Basically i'm a bit of a fusspot so not doing it the conventional way of grafting in the bulkhead and floor; i'm making a space frame chassis and getting that mounted in the car along with the engine, transmission, rear beam front x-member etc... then i'm going to basically fabricate a comprehensive rollcage and tie it all in to the space frame chassis...once its all welded up and tied into the fiesta shell i'll go round with the plasma cutter and whip out as much weight from the fiesta shell as possible, blank it all off with alluminium pannels and get it sprayed...
The fibreglass bodykit saves a hell of a lot of weight as you can cut a lot of metal from underneath them...Once I have the tubular chassis in there I can basically remove about 65% of the fiesta structure as its strenght is no longer required.
Radiator in boot, things like battery, ecu etc... can all be located anywhere they're going to help the weight distribution a little.
Are you on msn? what do you want to know? I have lots of ideas/info if you wanna chat send me a pm with your messenger details.
Dan