hey phil, well if u can get those same rims as my drags then maybe we can come to some sort of agreement

right some progress reports
ive gone a bit anal on all the powder coating and had a load more bits done
Front custom traction bars
intercooler/rad support brackets
Fuel filler pipe
Front subframe
brackets



Front subframe fitted, damn its bright lol




fuel filler pipe fitted



and my new rad hose setup he he can anyone guess what im doing?


the rad fittings welded on




more updates soon, this week is gonna be mental

awesome, i am really looking foreward to the finished article!!

wow nathan thats gonna be one clean lude lol

Its getting there slowly. Just been waiting for bits to turn up. Hopeful engine will be in next few days.

Oooooh, looking really nice there man, sooo can't wait to see it

Looking very clean and shiny, but how come you've not painted the upper wishbones?

Looking nuts now Nathan! I'll have to come see it as my Pug needs a service pretty soon

Are you useing AN fittings on the water? Fair play if you are its a proper build!

Looking awesome buddy! Long time no see

Are you still on msn? Hit me up sometime, i've just got the net back after moving house.

Keep up the good work with the build!

just been informed your on your hols

hopefully turn up before then, postage strikes I think are holding it up

right guys, im back from holiday and cracking on with the lude. ideas hav been swimming around my head while i was away and have decided im going to take some massive steps backwards,

Can you say the words "SPACE FRAME" with me

..........yes

excuse my ignorance but whats a space frame? is it a chassis made from uber light components "space age material" like carbon etc? or is it something completley different like a climping from for astronauts children?

frank

A space frame or space structure is a truss-like, lightweight rigid structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern. Space frames usually utilize a multidirectional span, and are often used to accomplish long spans with few supports. They derive their strength from the inherent rigidity of the triangular frame; flexing loads (bending moments) are transmitted as tension and compression loads along the length of each strut.

Most often their geometry is based on platonic solids. The simplest form is a horizontal slab of interlocking square pyramids built from aluminium or steel tubular struts. In many ways this looks like the horizontal jib of a tower crane repeated many times to make it wider. A stronger purer form is composed of interlocking tetrahedral pyramids in which all the struts have unit length. More technically this is referred to as an isotropic vector matrix or in a single unit width an octet truss. More complex variations change the lengths of the struts to curve the overall structure or may incorporate other geometrical shapes.

Space frames were independently developed by Alexander Graham Bell around 1900 and Buckminster Fuller in the 1950s. Bell's interest was primarily in using them to make rigid frames for nautical and aeronautical engineering although few if any were realised. Buckminster Fuller's focus was architectural structures and has had more lasting influence.

Space frames are an increasingly common architectural technique especially for large roof spans in modernist commercial and industrial buildings.

Tubular space frames are also widely used in the production of modern motorcycles and automobiles (and NASCAR race cars are exclusively built from spaceframe construction), but monocoque car bodies have been more common since the 1950s. Spaceframes have also been used in the latest incarnations of the unorthodox bicycles designed by Alex Moulton. The first automotive aluminum space frame appeared on the Honda NSX, other examples include the Audi A8, Ferrari 360, and Lamborghini Gallardo.



And WOO! for the NSX