OK, so only a little drive around the garden, but did manage to get in a few power slides!
First movement under own steam
First opposite lock!
In case you're wondering, yes, that is opposite lock you see in the 2nd picture. Just couldn't help myself.
What an amazing feeling it is to have finally reached this milestone of the thing moving under it's own steam. The random pile of steel and
aluminium that has been my expensive obsession for the last five years has just become an actual car! And what a noise it makes - half TVR, half
Harley. 
Mechanically complete at last
never mind the opposite lock, thats a garden?! 
its like a field!
i can't even get a motorbike round mine
well done though! i'll hopefully be there myself in the next few weeks 
Good man, backing it around the garden!
Some garden ! Well done looks awesome.
Nice workshop too! Could do with some insulation though? <brrr...>
Ed.
Yeah, I live in a flat in London that can only be described as "bijou" - I'm incredibly lucky that my parents have a bit more space
that I can use, even if it is a 3 hour drive away.
Happy to put up with the inevitable bollockings for covering various family heirlooms in grinding splatter etc in order to have space for the project
and my growing collection of associated junk.
[Edited on 9/2/11 by AdamR]
Excellent!
Fantastic, well done. Wheres the video though? 
Well done that man!
Just hope I'm not too far from that point myself, and we live on a farm (with no farming! ) so should have a bit of room for 'trying it
out'
Now just need to get crackinig on that engine cooling and ignition
A truly great moment when it moves by itself!
Is it a scratch built chasis or a Viento?
Now get it finished!
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Originally posted by nick205
A truly great moment when it moves by itself!
Is it a scratch built chasis or a Viento?
Now get it finished!
Sideyways in the garden.....wahey
Ohh nice mate, can we have a video? Looking forward to the day I can do the same. Am also wondering what gauges you used?
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Originally posted by Irony
Am also wondering what gauges you used?
Jenson, shouldn't you be testing the MP4-26?
(You look more like JB than JB does)
is it just me who wants to hear that go?
come on! gies a vid!
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Originally posted by A1
is it just me who wants to hear that go?
come on! gies a vid!
I *do* have a couple of vids but the sound is disappointingly rubbish. The engine noise has been totally cut out by my girlfriend's camera
which I guess has a very compromised microphone. Will see if I can get the vids up on to Youtube anyway.
well cool
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Originally posted by AdamR
quote:
Originally posted by A1
is it just me who wants to hear that go?
come on! gies a vid!
