Forum not the same lately

[deezee]

Personally I've watched many people come and go, on the forum. I think some think that making the chassis is making a car. From my experience it took 3 years to get my car on the road. 6 months making a chassis and 30 months doing the rest. Some people make a chassis, then realise the rest is up to them and sell the project.

I'd even go so far as too say my build was a particular turd and wanted to give up on many occasions. Disasters include,
- Poor wishbone bushes from 3GE, leading to an entire set on wishbones made wrong!
- broken fibreglass parts from Triton i waited 45 days for!
- engine and gearbox wrong place... Needed new mounts making
- drawing off forum was wrong leading to suspension brackets welded in wrong place
- engine i got was rotten (turd piston rings, bust oil pump and leaking crank seals)
- fuel tank leaking
- inlet manifold made backwards!
- using an engine not used before in kitcar!

[twinturbo]

Strange,

there have been a number of people activly working on their threads and updating build progress.

Cars are progressing to IVA. 2 recent passes and 2 in the pipeline..

Brainbug was leaving but the spirit here kept him in.

Sure we have a bit of a downer with NTS drying up, 3GE going last year and Phil looking after him'n'his (which he should) and his business rather than spending lots of time here.

I have not touched my car properly since september (apart from riging a cooling system.


Still lots going on.. but people do have real lives to get on with too ( and other forums to keep up with )...



TT

[motomaniac]

im here, still lurking in the background, dont really post much as i havent even got anything to start on, been looking for donor cars, but not too much about at the right price/distance, plus my savings have just taken a battering as my normal car is having the gearbox and clutch replaced , plus brakes and mot.... so money that i had from my first months overtime has now gone bye,bye.... plus the possibility of a stroker crank for my ccm may mean the build is off indefinitely....

[Davey]

I check in several times a day although I don't necessarily post every day. I use several forums for different things and I go through phases with all of them where I find little of interest and little to comment on but it comes back after a while.

D.

[Spikehaus]

I guess part of the downturn is partly due to general lack of disposable income with the downturn of the economy. I am only 4 new tyres and the cost of the IVA away from completing my build after 48 months. I don't really see the purchase of the remaining bits for some time as I have my wedding to pay for in September in Glasgow and a stag night in London.

My build was slow due to only working on weekends as the build is across town. I had wondered what I had got into at some times, but other days when you have regular people just popping in to check on progress, it all seems worth it again.

[SeriesLandy]

I just don't seem to have the time at the moment. Up untill May I was working all the time to pay for my wedding and now still working all the time so don't have anytime still.
Normally I would have a little break over the summer as normally the weather would be better.

[vmax1974]

Thanks lads

Have come to a decision and have started doing drawings of all the plates I will need for the roadster wishbone chassis and pedal box and will be taking them to the local laser cutter to have them cut for me

Was just exhausted last night and a little wound up more over doing an 80 hour week at work and not having any time to work on my own projects

Once I get the plates cut I will be back on track and able to work on the build on evenings

Will worry about bodywork when the time comes