Hey lets bring this tread back from the dead 2... I had posted when the forum went down, but the post was lost when they were able to restore the forum.
I'm back on the Locost with a vengeance. 4 years ago we move to a new house and I decided to treat myself to a proper garage. the new building is 26 feet wide and 28 feet long,
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the Garage.jpg
One thing I wanted was a lift, I loook at different options but for my needs a scissor lift was the perfect choice, I mainly do tire changes and oil changes on my daily driver, but the real work or my toys,
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Locost on lift.jpg
The Locost has no access from the bottom due to the welded steel floor, the other toy, a 2008 Porsche Boxster S I can do almost everything on the lift
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the other toy.jpg
now for the Locost... Last summer when the garage was finished I decided to go back to my root i.e. Solo 2, the car had a cage and other components aimed at Track days/Road racing.
The first order of business was to cut the cage out. I started out at the back and cut out the rear structure incorporated in the frame.
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rear chassis with roll cage.jpg
once cut I just welded the upper and lower cross tubes
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new upper cross bar.jpg
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new rear chassis.jpg
I also took the time to replace the Mumford Link for a Panhard bar. With the Mumfurd we always had a push i.e. understeer, we replace it on Marc's car with a Panhard Bar and it changed the behaviour of the car for the better. Not a complicated process. Just need to weld in a bracket on the chassis.
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Panhard bar bracket.jpg
to attach the bar to the diff I am reusing the bracket used for the Mumford.
While I was working in the back end, I worked on the gaz lines, nothing complicated, just added two fuel filter before and after the fuel pump.
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Panhard bar.jpg
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