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whpracer

posted on 28/12/16 at 08:30 PM Reply With Quote
Lola racecar build

My name is Peter, I live in holland

Years ago I build a super seven race car ( must be on this forum some where), but after setting up my own business, mariage , kids i'ts finaly time to start building again

Have been following different builds on this forum for a while.
thought it is time to share my build.

Together with my racing buddy we are building a Lola t492 race car.
It won't be an exact copy, but our interpetation.

the original car has a Alloy monocoque and runs a 2.0 Ford Pinto engine.
Ours going to have a tube style chassis and a 1 UZFE toyota engine.



After looking at different options we decided on the Lola, mainly because we both hate GRP work.
and we didn't want te spend 2 years making a plug, molds and finaly a body.

The body was bougth in the UK from a firm called Equinox, it is taken form an original car.
The quality is OK, the fitting is "period" , good enough for a race car but not as nice a showcar.







From a very helpful britisch Lola owner ( Graham ) I got a drawing of the chassistub, So with that we begun with a clean workplace











after a day of hard work we ended up with this



to be continued






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Mash

posted on 28/12/16 at 09:53 PM Reply With Quote
This is going to be lovely

Soooo jealous

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alfas

posted on 28/12/16 at 10:18 PM Reply With Quote
interesting project. was the original one a sports2000 lola?
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CosKev3

posted on 28/12/16 at 10:19 PM Reply With Quote
this will be interesting
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jeffw

posted on 29/12/16 at 06:05 AM Reply With Quote
Very interesting, always liked the 1970s Sports 2000 cars.






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Ivan

posted on 29/12/16 at 07:44 AM Reply With Quote
Lovely - will follow with interest.
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designer

posted on 29/12/16 at 11:44 AM Reply With Quote
The T492 was a good looking car.
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Doctor Derek Doctors

posted on 29/12/16 at 03:19 PM Reply With Quote
Might be worth joining uphill racers forum, there is a very active member called Lolat492 who might be worth contacting for information on the original car.

Great project.





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CNHSS1

posted on 29/12/16 at 06:53 PM Reply With Quote
I suspect the Graham the Op referred to and the UHR owner Graham Laokes are one and the same Cal





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Doctor Derek Doctors

posted on 29/12/16 at 07:00 PM Reply With Quote
Ah, I didn't know his name was Graham.

I live that body, going to do some research...





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tims31

posted on 29/12/16 at 10:59 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mash
This is going to be lovely

Soooo jealous


I'm already jealous of the workshop before looking at anything else.





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whpracer

posted on 31/12/16 at 10:49 AM Reply With Quote
@ Derek, the body came from : lola t492 body


@ Tim, I'm Always looking for excuses to buy more tools




With the lower and upper chassisrails in place, we could put the body on



Couple of months back I bought a set of Compomotive wheels of a Westfield XTR, there a little bit rough, but with some sanding and a new coat of paint they will look good.





broom broom, look at me go






Jon doing his first fast lap !!!




The drive train is going to be a Lexus 1UZFE bolted to a Audi o1X 6 speed manual box
( witch we got for FREE from ERWE, many thanks )
so with a engine crane we lifted the engine in place




next year more

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whpracer

posted on 2/7/17 at 07:35 PM Reply With Quote
after looking at the body laying on the chassis we discovered that our chassis is more wide than the body.

as can be seen on the pic below, the chassis sticks out after the front wheel



with the v8 power in mind, the chassis witch is to wide , we decided to build a new chassis, made out of 40mm & 45mm chome moly tube.



attack of the grinder






the start of the rear rollbar, This is made from 45mm crome moly tube.



measuring, looking & trying







Front and rear hoop in place






looks true



so far so good



Had the adapterplate machined out of 25mm aluminium



made a start with the front end of the car


not sure if i like it enough to stay



because we both had our doubts about the design of the front end we started with the rear.






making some room to work





























diagonal in the back stay



decided we made the rear end removabel for easy engine mounting




thats it for now.

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whpracer

posted on 3/12/17 at 08:13 PM Reply With Quote
Hi All, Update time


As said earlier, whe were not very happy with the front end design.
Manly beacuse of the pickup points of the lower wishbone's. We used the same geometrie as the original lola, but we are not very keen on getting a Lola limp after a crash.








het front had a discussion with the grinder




By by


after many hours of messing around with the suspension software ( Vsusp.com ) we came up with this :























Bought a shiny new pedalbox







next will be the front uprights ( I hope )


Cheers,

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whpracer

posted on 3/12/17 at 08:15 PM Reply With Quote
Update part 2

Now the new front end is in place, I could start designing and making the front uprights.


after some drawing we came up with this design, it is made out of Chrome Moly tube,


Checking over and over again, making sure it fits all within the wheels.




Cardbord template for the brake caliper



Fully welded with the axle stub in place


Left and Right done


brake mount welded in place


brake caliper mounted










all fits nice and snug in the wheel

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CosKev3

posted on 3/12/17 at 08:20 PM Reply With Quote
Awesome work,uprights look really good

What are you using top and bottom to attach to wishbones?

Lola limp made me chuckle,but at the same time wince!
is that a known phrase or something you made up?

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whpracer

posted on 3/12/17 at 10:01 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by CosKev3
Awesome work,uprights look really good

What are you using top and bottom to attach to wishbones?

Lola limp made me chuckle,but at the same time wince!
is that a known phrase or something you made up?


Quoted from another site ( Another thing about the Lola is that it is the only car that has had a disease named after it! The “Lola limp” is a well known club with quite a few members and seems to have been due to the design of the tub and the suspension pick up points. The Lola tub is shallow and the driver tends to sit on rather than sit in the car – it is almost flat to look at. Other makes have deeper tubs that seem to offer much more side protection. In the Lola the driver sits quite far forward again placing the legs at risk. Finally the front top wishbones attach to the tub at a point which seems to make it quite prone to fold in on the legs if there is a big frontal impact )

I'v stolen the phrase

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