Literally ragged to death

spaceframe with a modified 32 roadster body

What a rad little rod! Is it based on a Locost type chassis? I have seen people try to put hot rod bodies on them but they always end up a little "off"

Yours looks great! Thats a weird one on the rag though. Lexus v8's are cheap cheap here in Oz, I assume the same is true over there?

Rad as! More photos of your 32 pretty please!

I ought to frame the rag as it's just cost me £1500 .
£500 engine
£330 set of 630cc injectors as my Saab 345cc are all out of ideas at 9 psi so need to upgrade even if I don't do any more tuning
£450 new clutch as the £70 v6 Camry std unit is almost on the rivets after 5000 miles although it never slipped so need a new unit built to take 500 lb ft
New belt and a few odd gaskets .

Even more gutting is the whole car stands me £5500 as I set myself a monthly budget of £150 a month 4 1/2 yrs ago so I had to make a lot of stuff myself and adapt scrapyard stuff so there's no fancy shiny rod stuff on it .
Good example is the sidepipes which were very grotty Dax rush v8 parts that got no bids so stole the pair for £40 and found a stainless 4" - 2 1/2 stainless reducer from a stainless chimney flue place to link up to the downpipes

Started with the bones of an old frame and a one piece roadster tub



Always did 20-25 hrs a week and always looked at adapting production car parts rather than buying stuff .

The body took the most time as I had to cut a section out between the bootlid and and rear deck and add 4" to width at the front as my chassis is a bit wider up front to take the v8 , bonnet is 5"longer than stock with a cut down grille and the front arms were re made at a different angle to put the wheels in line with the grille which meant the rack is behind the axle Center with an upside down lhd rack with Vauxhall Agila electric column as I run a decent amount of caster for self centring and pulling itself onto full lock when it goes properly sideways . Basically lots of hours rather than money

It's on rods n sods in the garage section v8 turbo roadster .

I run an mot station so used to see lots of hot rods until the 1960 exemption came in but as soon as you start building any sort of traditional rod your kind of stuck down a path of having to source certain parts to make it work and even the fairly basic ones are around 10k to build . Does have a few little luxuries like power brakes courtesy of an e30 pedal box and Saab 9000 servo /mc and A cruise control kit from a. Customer who never got round to fitting the kit on his motor home before selling it .

Stuff like the doors took several weeks to finish as I had to hang them from the body not the chassis so the whole lot is removeable with a few bolts and ended up with aluminium frames with balsa wood reinforcement to keep them under 2kg


I blew the budget buying the microsquirt Ecu one month so had to strip enough wiring out of scrap cars at work to build a harness , top find was the huge number of multi plugs hiding behind the centre console of a 2001 celica which covered every thing I needed and the long runs from front to rear on a few others donated the rest

Not really but had quite a few telling me the chassis wasn't up to the job of carrying a v8 despite it being pretty much the same as the Westfield and dax rush.