BuggyofMildDiscomfort

More wing pictures time - finally got the first skeleton up to full width - need a thin sheath of balsa in certain spots just to give it some shape in order to skin it with either fabric or fibreglass to give it a structural skin, the wooden spars will get replaced with aluminium tube when it arrives, and it needs some carbon + epoxy reinforcements to go in on the trailing edge to stiffen/strengthen it, but at least it's getting closer - just another 3 to go...

BuggyofMildDiscomfort

Getting prettier as you go through from start to finish

Finishing touches slowly going on, new inlet, new boost piping, heat shielding/lagging, shock reservoirs mounted, looms routed through bulkhead fittings, etc:

Nottm_S2

Thats not 'pretty' haha

I bought a MTB recently off a bloke in Kegworth. He opens the garage door and there is a mental looking buggy. Albeit lower tech by a long way than yours.

M3 3l in it, i think he said 206 body. I tried to find this thread at the time but mobi signal was shyte.

BuggyofMildDiscomfort

I didn't say 'pretty' - I said 'prettier'

Yeah, we used to make those actually, like this?

Nottm_S2

His didnt have much of a body on it. What was there was red though.

Engine just behind his seat. He said it was pretty heavy but reckoned it was great fun.

He told me he'd cleaned it though, with a straight face. It was dirtier than carpers mind ffs.

BuggyofMildDiscomfort

Yeah, engine is right up through the bulkhead, box in the middle, etc.
If it's that one it was a mate of mine, one of our frames and shells but with his own suspension and drivetrain, he's just sold it to someone around there about 3 months back IIRC.

This is a later V6 one but looks something like this under the bodywork?




Although there was a cheap and cheerful copy kit around that was up for sale last year in red too with an M3 engine - had horrible doorbars with bends in all the tubes and really thick fibreglass bodywork?

Ultra_Nexus

I still regularly check in to see how you're doing

After the woes with my chassis, I wouldn't trust many people to build on again and definitely wouldn't buy a cheap and cheerful copy kit unless you could go through and rectify the 'cheapness'. I can promise you it won't be cheerful either

BuggyofMildDiscomfort

Haha, yes, cowboys everywhere these days. Some of the pay and play day buggies that are popping are even worse than the kit car scene - mate of mine lost an arm to one a year or so ago when it folded up like a pair of scissors, no triangulation in any of the safety cage at all

Mind there's some very scary cages racing too. Including that one I mentioned above with a bend in every doorbar tube...

BuggyofMildDiscomfort

Well, that's one (still needs it fibreglass skin, has a thin* balsa layer at the minute to form the cloth over and it's allowed me to foam fill the leading and trailing edges for dent resistance)....





On to the always growing list of 'additional shit we shouldn't touch until it's finished but we're probably going to do anyway' - the front mudguard mountings tubes are going, they were originally left separate to the damper mounts so no damage occurred to the suspension if a mudguard got ripped off, but we've worked out a smaller, neater way to do it which gets that curved tube out of the equation. Should be lighter, look a lot neater and gets the tube out of the way of the wing endplates.

Oh yes, as you can see it has some shiny new nerf rails down the sides too to go with the bumper that's in progress.
Good for bouncing off trees, rocks and mowing down small children.

*So thin you can see the ribs through it, saves at least 10 vital grams of weight!

Ultra_Nexus

Why not just use fibreglass for the wing? Surely it'd be easier? Oh, don't forget to stick some wing end fences on - improve the lift and reduce the drag