Thinking of building a Haynes Roadster

[stuvy]

Iv been head hunted this week and will upload some pictures as of Saturday when I’m At donnington.

It’s not what I wanted but fir the money I honestly can’t complain

 

[Woody.v8]

I have to ask, how many random chassis do you have just "kicking about??"
I have seen various photos of land rovers, kit cars, tvr.

I would like to do a full tubular chassis as if you have the facilities to notch tube then cutting brackets that wrap around wont be any harder.

Looking at @Woody.v8 stock car anything is capable. And if it's a challenge you want then I would want something a bit different than the "norm"

My bumpers are not very pedestrian friendly though.

 

[Nick DV]

I have posted this before. I want me one of these but there is absolutely no chance of finding or buying one.



So I am building my own replica along with a few other little toys which is why the cave extension is so important. Toys all need laying out on their own build tables so if there is a hold up on one I can do bits to another.

Its going to be a mongrel on later chassis etc, got the chassis, running gear, 302 V8 engine and gearbox, complete bodyshell with doors and glass etc. Its butchery of a classic but I dont care

Already gone green with envy Will be an awesome build

 

[gaz_moose]

cant you do the old, buy a rotten old registered kit car off ebay and pinch the logbook trick that everyone used to do to get around having it tested.

 

[Bobtail4x4]

I may even have one for sale

 

[stuvy]

cant you do the old, buy a rotten old registered kit car off ebay and pinch the logbook trick that everyone used to do to get around having it tested.

You could do but it’s a case of ethics and legality

 

[ibrooks]

And they are tightening up on it - Dutton used to be fairly common as they were cheap but lots being called in for inspections and having their ID confiscated when it turned out it was actually a Robin Hood/Sylva/Westfield/Locost/whatever. Not worth the risk as it could even happen years down the line. In the club we've even sen people stung when they bought a car unaware that it was using the ID from A.N.Other kit. They are left with a car they can't use on the road and not much else.

 

[MattH]

I have no interest in ways to avoid the IVA.

I'm not sure I really see what the issue with the IVA is.

There is a manual that is both the testers procedures and the builders requirements.

Follow that to the letter and it's job done.

If I miss something or something is not up to standard then fail the car and make me remediate the issue.

I'd much rather go through a couple of stringent tests and have a safe and fully legit car at the end of it that not.

 

[stuvy]

I have no interest in ways to avoid the IVA.

I'm not sure I really see what the issue with the IVA is.

There is a manual that is both the testers procedures and the builders requirements.

Follow that to the letter and it's job done.

If I miss something or something is not up to standard then fail the car and make me remediate the issue.

I'd much rather go through a couple of stringent tests and have a safe and fully legit car at the end of it that not.

Daily mail scare mongers

The main part of the Dutton saga it’s veh ringing

People were buying a Dutton with mk2 escort id and stealing and ringing escorts due to the profit margin

 

[ibrooks]

I'm not sure I really see what the issue with the IVA is.

In general I think SVA/IVA were a good thing and needed to happen but there are some areas I would take issue with mainly down to a lack of common sense being applied by the people writing the rules and/or the testers.

The requirement for a demisting device on an open top car? come on guys use some common sense. So people don't fit a windscreen until after the test.

The way some of the "sharp edge" rules are applied is very much down to opinion and interpretation which it has to be by definition when every car tested could be different but some of the things I've seen picked up as a risk to the public or a pedestrian are beyond absurd. Everything gets wrapped in rubber.

The really big one for me was the changes they made to the braking balance rules when it changed from SVA to IVA. For SVA you could fit a bias device but had to render it non-adjustable so you set it on the testers rollers and then drilled a hole through the adjuster and inserted a split-pin or similar - chances are it would never be touched again. Under IVA you cannot have a bias device at all! So how do you set the correct front-rear brake balance? The official advice "by design". This one really boils my urine - how on earth am I going to test brake balance in a domestic garage?

There are others.

In almost every case it results in a car being presented for test in a form that it won't remain in. The car will be built to pass a test and then modified...... SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THE ****ING TEST?


It also bugged me when the manual was fresh in my mind that I'd be sat at the lights next to a nice shiny new Ford/Vauxhall/Renault/whatever and could pick out things that would fail the test. WTF!!

Like I say SVA/IVA was a good idea and something like it was necessary. I might even go as far as to say that it's overall better than the previous system but there are aspects that seem self defeating. Given a bit of thought, the powers behind it could have even tweaked it in the right direction in the areas where it became obvious that it was excessive or silly but it's almost as if that would be a loss of face.

 

[MattH]

Good points. And you are correct, my car will be built to pass not built to last.

 

[Pilot_Engineering&Welding]

I have built 4 of these chassis now.

 

[selectedgrub]

If that was sarcasm I laughed.

 

[Pilot_Engineering&Welding]

My most recent

 

[RWD3M]

Hey @MattH, Did this ever come to anything?

 

[MattH]

Hey @MattH, Did this ever come to anything?

Unfortunately not, it’s still in the back of my mind though.

 

[RWD3M]

No rush, Rome wasn't built in a day!

 

[8ob]

No rush, Rome wasn't built in a day!

I wasn't on that job

Bob

 

[brightspark]

Do it, but bear in mind that the last 5 % of the build will take 95% of the time

Been there done it, and got the t shirt

done mine in 8 weeks from start to finish had all the parts to start otherwise any longer and id have lost interest

 

[brightspark]

No rush, Rome wasn't built in a day!

it was burnt down in a day though