Location, Location, Location

The weekend was amazingly cold but on Sunday,
I managed to drag myself outside and take some pictures,
before I got down to the business of cleaning parts.


Outside and interior of the garage.




View from the garden, I thought it looked nice with the clouds on top of the mountain.




While cleaning parts I was dismayed to find
that the part that the caliper floats on is of different size to the other one,
I guess the smaller one is for disks of 240.
I'll have to go back today and swap it out for another one,
pity I spent an hour cleaning it.

The offending part

Toyo Power

Here is the exact engine we have bought. The picture was stolen from the LocostSA forum.
Link to original post: http://www.locost.co.za/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=520

Engine (4AG-E 20v), Clutch and Gearbox (Ford Type 9)

DIFFiculties

Well today we went to visit our poor diff still stuck at the mechanic.
As we arrived we were informed that at last the seal had been delivered.
I thought I would add some pics of its internals since you don't often get to see inside.
Hopefully we will be able to bring it home tonight and get it painted!

I have absolutely no idea what all these bits are called.
They are just the big bits with angry, large looking teeth.













Its only 2 weeks till June, when all our parts from Locost SA arrive.
(for 7 year olds thats 14 sleeps, I found the sleeps method very useful when I was smaller.)

Anyway cheers for now and I'll get some picks up of our build lab (the garage) over the weekend and
Possibly even the painted diff.

Reconditioned Parts

Thus far we have been removing rust

and painting our parts with Hammerite.

You can see the weapon of choice in the picture,

as well as our newly cleaned uprights.


Here we have a rebuilt caliper with a painted upright

and a brand new disk (Vented 260mm) to match

The front upright assembled,

I'm amazed how much fun I had playing with the parts

One of the half shafts, a Saphire rear caliper

and a new disk (Solid 253mm), to go with them.

The bottom link with steering column and ignition switch.




Also an Escort rack and sierra handbrake

We are hoping for our Diff (3.89) to be ready soon, its still at the mechanic waiting for a seal.
The chassis and engine will hopefully arrive in June some time
and then at last we can start building!

Plan of Action

My Father and I have decided to build a locost. I aim to record our progress on this blog.
We have not attempted to build a car before so we are going the simple route of buying the chassis.
I spent a lot of time reading other pages with theme as this one,
to research what was going to be the best engine to use.

Our car:

Motor: Toyota 20valve 4AG-E (Silver top)
Chassis: Starter Kit Provided by Locost SA (http://www.locost.co.za/)
Donor: Sierra
Engine management: Perfect Power XMS-L
Body Work Colour: Bright Orange
Colour scheme: Orange and black