Best budget lotus 7 style kit car?
Jeremy Pitt
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> Looking for opinions on what people think of the various lotus 7 style kit
> cars. I would be looking at an already built kit to avoid the trauma of
sva
> testing. I know the opinions of R hoods is quite low but are they really
> that bad? As a budget car for use on the road and not the track surely
they
> can't be that bad?
>
> Any opinions welcome as long as they are not just slating comments.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ash
>
>
Its like everything in life, you get what you pay for, and you don't pay
much for a Robin Hood. But people get plenty of pleasure building them and
driving them on the road. You don't have to be much of a mechanic to build
one, but this can be a negative, cos you don't know how good or bad the
build quality is. Better cars are available from Tiger and MK at similar
prices, plus they've had the benefit of studying the RH and learning from
their mistakes at no cost.
AWM
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>
>
> Its like everything in life, you get what you pay for, and you don't pay
> much for a Robin Hood. But people get plenty of pleasure building them and
> driving them on the road. You don't have to be much of a mechanic to build
> one, but this can be a negative, cos you don't know how good or bad the
> build quality is. Better cars are available from Tiger and MK at similar
> prices, plus they've had the benefit of studying the RH and learning from
> their mistakes at no cost.
>
Nothing on an MK or Tiger is learned from RH, the MK started out as a book
Locost which is a pre-lit Westfield clone..
The Westie of course started out as a close copy of the Lotus Eleven copy
before evolving into an early Lotus Seven replica.
Nobody learns anything from Robin Hood as no engineer would make any of the
design mistakes Robin Hood make anyway. Robin Hood don't learn from thier
mistakes they just make diiferent mistakes on each succeeding model.
Jeremy Pitt
"AWM" <not...@nowhere.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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I happen to know that many of the kit car companies have spent a long time
looking at RH, not just from a design perspective - you think that design is
all that matters? the kit car industry is littered with superb designs,
engineering brilliance, but failed projects.
AWM
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> I happen to know that many of the kit car companies have spent a long time
> looking at RH, not just from a design perspective - you think that design
is
> all that matters? the kit car industry is littered with superb designs,
> engineering brilliance, but failed projects.
>
>
The kit car industry is hardly littered with good designs although it is
with failed projects.
The engineering design of the Robin Hood is an object of mirth among the kit
car fraternity, it has been fairly obvious from the very first model to the
present day that there is a lack understanding of suspension design and
chassis dynamics within the company. RH however has some expertise in
production engineering however this is focused on minimum cost production
not on producing parts of decent quality at reasonably low cost.
Jules B
suspension with adjustable coilovers all round. I fitted it with the Pinto
2.0 EFI unit and entered it for its SVA which it passed first time with all
ancillaries fitted, including windscreen.
The bad points are said to be:-
Nothing fits ... well that's an exaggeration but don't buy one expecting a
box of Lego.
Support its crap. I don't agree with this as Richard at RHE has always
helped me out when I needed it, and the RHE board is fantastic. However I
get the impression that Richard doesn't suffer fools gladly and his
strengths may not lie in public relations.
Unfit for purpose... Well I have done over 1000 miles so far in it and it
seems to go from a to b without falling off the road, so what is the problem
here? Perhaps all of the other 7's have a fairly high race track profile,
and I think this could one place where RHE could do themselves a lot of good
and set up some sort of competition series.
To sum up are the other sevens better than a Robin hood? Probably. Are the
other sevens more expensive? Probably. Will you be proud of what you have
achieved if you build a Robin hood? Yes Yes Yes.
Either way no mater what you decide to build, if you find yourself broken
down at the side of the road you can pretty much guarantee that if a kit car
owner is passing by, he will stop to help you.
Happy building
Julian Brewer
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