Awesome fab skills - 4WD turbo Mini project on youtube.

[varg]

I wonder what it would take to make a car that is under or at 1000 pounds with out resorting to the aerial atom type chassis?

Quite difficult if you're not talking about a small, single seat car with a motorcycle engine. Once you start considering that even a very light car engine and transmission are in the 400lb range, it gets tough.

[george graves]

Looking up the stock mini is only 1300 pounds or so. And they are adding another 400 pounds I would assume(unless the celica motor is aluminium, and I don't think it is) - so less then 2000.

I wonder what it would take to make a car that is under or at 1000 pounds with out resorting to the aerial atom type chassis? I guess you would have to do fiberglass body, over a triangulated tube frame(super strong if you know your engineering). Kinda like the solar cars do.

[delamaize]

Going back to watch it again. I love these guys!

[Chinampa]

yes

[LJ851]

yes

[doorman]

Fantastic as usual!

[rturbo 930]

Bump

[doorman]

Good to see an update!

[bradnic]

can't get enough of these vids. been waiting for months on this last one! didn't disappoint. now we can all be Ackerman angle experts lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry

[ArtFoodBMW]

Hell yes!!!!

[Wschnitz]

The Fabwork gives me boners for days, Lusting after new episodes like an addict.

[george graves]

Blahhhhh -it's glorious!

[LJ851]

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[Wschnitz]

Not them, moog. He's just annoying. If it were more Marty, and more of them doing DIY fabrication instead of having shops do most of it, I would subscribe. The show has potential and quite a bit of it is enjoyable, Marty seems like a cool guy, as do the guys at the shops.

Could be youtube pays for it all so they have most of it done at shops and just film it, rather then the ghetto fab they used to do early on.

[varg]

I really dont find them that bad

Not them, moog. He's just annoying. If it were more Marty, and more of them doing DIY fabrication instead of having shops do most of it, I would subscribe. The show has potential and quite a bit of it is enjoyable, Marty seems like a cool guy, as do the guys at the shops.