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by MJ » 16 Nov 2008 10:50 pm
I was at a kit car show yesterday, and they has a drift demonstration with a Westfield (Caterham 7 style car) and anyone could have a ride. it was Awesome!
I thought you'd get flung about drifting, but it was like the car was floating - really smooth

You have to wear sunglasses/goggles things because it kicks up gravel, and there's no roof - you can feeling it bouncing off your face
It seems as though Westfield have been going around the UK to different car shows demonstrating it. Here's a clip of the same car somewhere else showing the sort of thing he was doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUi01Kjf7jE
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by Stefan » 17 Nov 2008 09:25 am
Now that is some good driving skills

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by germ » 17 Nov 2008 03:10 pm
I LOVE KIT CARS!!

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by filthyjohn » 17 Nov 2008 05:18 pm
It's meant to be properly hard to drive a seven like that. I've heard they're next to impossible to drift. Probably something to do with the low weight meaning very little momentum.
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by sven360 » 17 Nov 2008 06:28 pm
Put some Colways on J.Ya could drift a skip wagon
Has that got fiddler brakes on??????????
Seemed to get gay close to that cone near the end

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by SteveP » 18 Nov 2008 02:49 pm
filthyjohn wrote:It's meant to be properly hard to drive a seven like that. I've heard they're next to impossible to drift. Probably something to do with the low weight meaning very little momentum.
You only need to play the game Live For Speed to find that out, very tricky!
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by jtbo » 18 Nov 2008 09:19 pm
If one builds suspension such way that there is not so much grip and uses tyres from 70's, perhaps not that impossible
Locost is something I'm looking into, need to just sort more space to garage, more tools, more time, more money, more skills
You have seen Evans doing it, with proper suspension setup and such it is perhaps not so insanely difficult:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rhz19ZrpZg
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by MJ » 18 Nov 2008 10:00 pm
If you want to build your own Locost Jani, I recommend the Haynes book "Build Your Own Sports Car On a budget".
http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stor ... &langId=-1
It's a great book, and has plans of all the parts you need to make one from scratch, using a donor Ford Sierra

You can of course adapt if to use any donor, you could even use a 360. There was someone here a while ago with a kit car using a 300 series drivetrain.

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by jtbo » 18 Nov 2008 10:29 pm
Yeah, I know that Haynes book, there are also lot of sources at internet, it will just take quite some time to get such big job started.
I know one thing, when I'm going to build it, it won't have most common solutions

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by MJ » 18 Nov 2008 11:08 pm
I'd love to build one as well. The only things that stand in the way are a lack of space, time, money, skill and commitment.

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by Chris_C » 19 Nov 2008 11:48 am
The "is born" series of tv programs is worth a watch if you are thinking of doing it too, lots of random useful info along with random useless info
Mate of mine has been building a locost for the last 12months, tweaked suspension geometry with a suzuki swift engine. Should be interesting when it's built

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by filthyjohn » 19 Nov 2008 08:39 pm
G13B Chris? Those lumps are way awesome, 100hp and billet steel crank as standard.
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by Chris_C » 19 Nov 2008 11:15 pm
I believe thats the one. On squirt and tweaked they make a heck of a lot more too

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by volvorsport » 19 Nov 2008 11:48 pm
i believe someone on here has built a volvo powered locost and actually got it running unlike a miriad of project cars from the turbobricks community !!
sevens are hard to drift like that simply because of the steering , they dont have much self centering - its certainly possible to get it sideways tho

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by workshopmanualman » 20 Nov 2008 09:44 am
You can do a course at Dunsfold [Top Gear track] and learn to drift the 7. I've done it, so there! I believe they have to alter the suspension, and limit tyre adhesion to do it. It must work as everybody could get these things sliding to a degree. And yes, it does look cool when you do it - you feel like the Stig. Well, until the instructors go out and show how casually they do things....
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