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Ned on the VSCC forum there are many people up in arms about touring bodies being removed from cars to make sporting specials , but the...
here are a couple of mine the green one is a 1936 austin 7 special i used to have most of the body was done when i bought it but i made the...
here is something i built a few years ago ,, there are more details on the cyclecar thread on here i used the modern stuff , i built the...
well today , i have spent most of the day finishing drawings for the jappic wiping my nose and sniffing , today had three books arrive two with...
The other thing that maybe of use is the reduction box vw used on split screen type 2 vans on each rear wheel, These reversed direction and...
Hi Old mad jack , just bought a couple of these on eBay very cheap , Thanks for the heads up
I have now started a collection on flickr with the how to build car articles in it 3 so far more to come...
We do still have a blacksmith in our small Market town I also have a couple of useful engineering companies who don't mind doing a few little...
Just read the arlen special piece , the last few paragraphs are interesting advising caution when using the brakes at speed, It does say most...
Arlen special scans here http://www.flickr.com/photos/55288722@N00/
important ,,,, how to build a cyclecar is being reprinted http://www.theoldbicycleshowroom.co.uk/how-to-build-a-cyclecar-1951-p.asp get...
Some of the old magazines are very fragile White gloves not required but there are little pillows to rest some books on so they don't get damaged ,
More villards on my flikr pages Inc racing version http://www.flickr.com/photos/55288722@N00/
A lot of Austin 7 single seated cars run an offset differential, early banjo type look like small versions of a model a ford rear axle One side...
The trunk could be the way to acsess the inside as there is no door this side, suspect the mudguards are there to make the car road legal , maybe...
The Ardennes run looks great, but it says it's for Pre 1919 cars , jappic was 1924 shame I havnt got the chater lea still
The blue car is a recreation of a very early gn belt drive cyclecar, the engine is mounted inline rather than the normal gn across the car , The...
Very nice Talgil , .......... Jappic news ......... News from local engineers is that the rear hubs and axle ill be finished next week ,...
That looks very similar to the badelia ,
Hi Ned this is a lemoine type front axle which is the same as the jappic had ,interestedly the jappic has it's axle mounted the other way up with...
Welcome Talgil very interested in your great little car could you put a few pics of the car as it is today looks great, I am very interested...
My bits a very simple , I draw the parts up in then use a laser cutter to cut the parts out of 3 mm mdf particle board , this is just for testing...
Been making mock ups of the engine mounts and in the absence of the correct forward mount mag mount and chain case I will be making my own
been making a seat for the Jappic,, as i cant get the engine mounted until the pedals are in and cant do the pedals until the seat is done ,, its...
The dwell is different on the inlet and exhaust as the exhaust has a curved follower which I think it means it has more dwell And the aver...
Despite the cam lobe being the same For the inlet and exhaust the exhaust lift and acceleration is dependent on the rocker ratio and the follower...
Often desmo systems have light springs to seal the valves for starting purposes as once the engine is running the compression does that job
The vitesse special held a number of standing and flying start records at a number of distances at times up to 24 hour, The 24 hour record is...
Now the jappic was a j class record holder under 350 cc the car that later captured all of the jappics records was the vitesse special driven by g...
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