Should I buy or have I smoked too much crack?
 

Going to look at it on Tuesday.

Dont know much about it other than it runs and needs a clutch.

Depends on how much. For $1500 (or less)? Sure, why not. For $2000 or more? No.

Front suspension mounts look weak. LOL at the cheap "strut brace". General fit and finish looks sloppy. Do you want to trust your life to someone who does sloppy work?

how is that a brace when it has pivot points to prevent it from preventing flex?


that thing is the definition of: not sexy

Not Sexy at all, more like a redneck atom. Looks like too much fun to pass up for $750, in running condition. Shit worst case scenario I have another 1.6 drive train around.

Ok VA residents.... What does it need to pass inspection? Windshield? It obviously has no Vin tag... Just install the one fron the donor car?

..... All the questions...

Not sure about this. Needs moar pics

Looks ghetto as hell.

BUT, if it was local to me and only $750, I would seriously consider...

For $750 i guess....

But that is a good example of sloppy "IDGAF" work. Honestly, i bet you a prepped regular miata would faster, and more fun to drive than that thing.

I have a feeling this might be the thing that kills it's drivers.

wut?

:laugh:

Makes every grammatical and spelling error under the sun in every thread.

Corrects others' errors.

/bi-winning

:laugh::brain:

For $750 I would jump on it and enjoy. All the locost frames alone I have seen for sale have been between $750-1000. Even if it turns out not to be the greatest you could probably part it out for more then what you paid for it.

pretty much. most of my errors stem from my reliance on firefox's built in spell check, but when I'm at work, I use IE and it doesn't have such fancy things. But I try to edit posts to clean up. Also when I post on my phone, I don't even try. But I'm the admin, so fuck you.

try AOL bro...I hear its top notch

Ironically it's the same $30 ebay brace I have on the front of my Miata. In stock form, it damped the 65mph shimmy until I replaced other suspension components. I wouldn't trust it to do much of anything the way this guy used it.

Mine all Mine....

Terrifying first drive!


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Kids love it

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Now for the scary parts.....

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For the price I got it for ......meh

Ditto.

Was nice knowing ya. Hope your life insurance is paid up.

Homemade control arms splatter-welded together out of undersized components and with strange geometries? Sure. What is the worst that could happen? I bet the frame isn't splattered together with that little attention to detail and precision.

I would definitely not trust that ball of weld in the fourth picture to save my life. Wow. That's scary.

Is this where we point out all what's wrong with it?

When i look at that control arm setup, it looks as if it would go into positive camber when compressed. Control arms are attached to i guess the frame by some itty bitty pieces of 1/8"th tabs. Welded with what looks to be a HF fluxcore welder, done by a 3rd grader. I wouldn't take that above 40mph. 4 point roll bar?? The coller on the coilover is supposed to be jammed into the other one right? Looks like it's just sitting in limbo. lol

RIP. Mike.

Jesus mother. I dont think I could have brought my self to buy that because I would have to put more time into it de-fucking everything about it than it would take me to just make a locust frame myself. Those control arms are weak enough to break with the wimpy tires on it now, if they dont rip off the chassis first.

The fast/cheap/easy way to make that car decently safe would be to grind off all the suspension tabs and replace them with better tabs designed to take stock control arms.

And I would put serious consideration into at least adding some sort of down tube to the front from the roll bar and 1 nascar bar/side.

You're seriously going to try to register it!?

Headlights need to be aimed properly.
Tail lights/turn signals need to be functional and pass regs
Needs a windshield made of safety glass (no lexan)
Must have wipers
No exhaust leaks
License plate must be illuminated
Seat belts must be DOT approved

That's the lite version, and totally skips anything emissions related (which might be an issue depending on how they classify it). Don't even try.

looks like it needs another 100hp. Make it happen.

A crusher is what it needs... That's dangerous

amazing

awesome

looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you...

It also has no front or rear anti roll bars... What the frig?

Looks like there's room for a big block Chevy motor! :rofl:

Looks like the builder ran out of purple paint before doing the bottoms of a couple of the control arms.

If unregisterable isn't a word, it should be.

As bad as it is, it isn't the worst Ive seen. I saw a homebuilt kit airplane built by someone with very similar skills at the local grass strip once. It had not yet flown and the owner was in the process of enlisting someone to certify its airworthyness and to solo in it(builder had no pilot's license). Before that occurred, someone contacted the kit manufacturer who promptly filed an injunction or got a cease and desist letter or something to halt his activities before anyone got killed. He had used hardware store bolts instead of aircraft grade fasteners as well.

That plane and this car would probably kill you just about as quickly.

Someone show his wife how to long on here and start a part out thread for when he actually drives this thing spiritedly.

All that purple, FAE IS BUILDING LOCOSTS NOW?
I'd look it over for hacked frame rails

in the 3rd picture, is that a broken control arm already?

Not broken anymore it's welded back together.

Perfect track car for the soon to be ex-wife:idea:

I don't think it's easy to design and build an actual running, driving, homemade racecar, so he's got to be somewhat intelligent to start with. But the shit build quailty I'm seeing on this car would make me not want it. Plus, what does it look like under those panels?

By the time you redo everything to make it safe, you can build one.:dealwithit:

Kinda looks like it was outside uncovered. Why so much rust???

Think you got it. It was outside for two years under a tarp. Rust abound. Good question on what is under the panels..... Ill check this weekend.

Here is the kicker.. It was built by a mechanical engineering student for his final project... He passed. Now he works for Kia. I will never buy a Kia.

Community College?

KIA you say?

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That's possibly the biggest shit heap I've ever seen on four wheels.

Take it off-roading... fix what breaks, whatever doesn't must be good nuff.

Video it too, and have them get a better shot of the dash this time.

If it's not dangerous then it's not fun.

Honestly, at $750, you got a good deal. You will probably have to do some major repairs before I would consider taking it up to speed though.

After reading through all of the threads talking about what a death trap it is I was glad to see somebody saw through all of the "nanny naysayers" and realized just in parts it was a good price.

Boost_#ace is right, if it isn't dangerous it isn't fun!

for 1.6l parts, free is too expensive.

I say churbo and giant hoosier slicks or stay home. What could possibly go wrong?