Daewoo Roadster...

brianallmotor · Post by **brianallmotor** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:36 am

here it is: http://community.webshots.com/user/brianallmotor
enjoy my little project.

you should see how high off the ground it is now that there's no weight in the car!

replacing cyl 4 injector tomorrow morning, hopefully it'll get the thing out of 'limp mode' and i can finally drive it.

-Brianallmotor

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:55 am

HOLY

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:02 am

hell yeah man. i was waiting for you to post here. i was gonna start it for you when you joined the other day but i thought i would wait for you to do it. you really need to put the finishing pics on here. waiting to see what it looks like. good luck man.

nick

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:31 am

good lord, i hope you braced that frame

i bet the torsional rgigidity of the car dropped by like 1000 fold

but it sure is promising! let's see the finished pics...

brianallmotor · Post by **brianallmotor** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:53 pm

turns out that the injector just wasn't plugged into the wire harness all the way!! so now the engine is running a little better. but i still got a problem with it. i'll post that in the engine section tho...

there are some more pics up now. the car drives like a boat- totally unresponsive. but atleast the frame hasn't twisted or anything yet. took it out for a ride today. doors still open and close fine, no signs of bending yet.

i'll keep you guys posted with the upcomming mods....

-Brianallmotor

norman · Post by **norman** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:42 pm

moin,

long time ago, daewoo built a prototyp of a lanos ragtop.
i miss some strutting to stabilize the structure. if you don?t build this in, the car will drive in all directions but not straight and in one year no door will fit...

btw: in this car, you have no big chance to survive a crash, because the roof is important by absorbing crash energy.

but the idea is good

tschau norman

python235 · Post by **python235** » Sun May 15, 2005 6:16 pm

we have a golf here that cut ts roof off for 3 years running now! and great shape !
he had to make some sort of roll bar for the chasi all around and esspecially from the points of cut, Lots of work, hope u did that!!

woo · Post by **woo** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:37 am

just weld up the doors, thats what some people here do

brianallmotor · Post by **brianallmotor** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:39 am

went to a local auto cross today. spoke with someone who does a lot of fabricating and has expreince with roll cages, he showed me where all the points of the cage/bar should be welded and offered to help me bend up the bars and weld them at his shop. car guys rock.

so yeah, stiffening will be comming soon.

-Brianallmotor

python235 · Post by **python235** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:59 pm

look at the end, slap on a SEXY custom made wide body kit and metallic paint and turbo charge it if it goes stiff enough!! and you will make 1 kind of a daewoo never been made!
good luck dude !

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:29 pm

python235 wrote:look at the end, slap on a SEXY custom made wide body kit and metallic paint and turbo charge it if it goes stiff enough!! and you will make 1 kind of a daewoo never been made!
good luck dude !

Sounds like nearly all the cars at the drift sessions that NASA has been doing latly.. nearly all there cars are like that. Most all are turbo'd. About half have wide bodys and about a third have metalic paint

Brian5475E · Post by **Brian5475E** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:25 pm

I thinkl it's a good idea, just need to brace everything and do finishing touches. I bet you lost a couple hundred pounds. should be a little quicker

BCC423 · Post by **BCC423** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:49 pm

weld every gap you can find on the doors to increase strength. DUKES OF HAZZARD STYLE

Post by **PrecisionBoost** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:06 am

You should have braced it before cutting off the roof... saying the doors still shut isn't a good indication of unibody frame shift... I bet if you took it into a frame shop they would find several dimensional changes in the frame structure.

A partial roll cage installed prior to cutting would have made all the difference in the world with respect to keeping structural integrity and alignment.

I hope you don't get yourself killed. ( perhaps it would make a good Darwin award )

I think you would have to be crazy to drive it around like this.

Slammed · Post by **Slammed** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:19 am

Cool as heck and looks great too

I want one now LOL

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