the very first locost in Saudi Arabia

[Hamad]

i  would like to show  you what  me and my two friends accomplished in the past 6 months . its a car with a nissan  v6 engine under the bonnet  . the styling is taken from the lotus seven ...

here are some pics of the actuall making of the car ( we made in our house in Wadi aldawaser ) :

first the team , from the right  ( muhammad , Hamad (me ) and Khalid )



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the tools:
























and many other


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the engine ( 3 L , v6 )



blueprints for the chassis



tubes ( we used 4x4 , 2mm )


the very first tube



we drawed the the base of the chassis on this piece of wood to make shore we get it spot on .



the base of the car



the chassis ( flipped to weld the tubes from the other side )



the chassis  upon complation



the scaffolding ( to protect your head )



the back of the chassis



two 3mm metal sheets under the passengers



the metal sheets from inside


the differential


the engine while chosing where exactly to mount it



the engine's mounts in place as well as the gear's mount



the seats



the chassis with the engine ...



from another angle



the car's Electrics     ( we had to modify it , this literaly made us sweat to our knees )



the car's Electrics  while putting them in place



the car's Electrics  almost finished


the car's Electrics  before wrapping it up



the battery



brake discs ....



part of the exhaust




testing the tail lights



the car's front grill and car paste



front glass


the dashboard



tail light after installaing them





the filter's room ( this way the air gooing to the engine is cold )



the filter's room from the inside





painting some metal sheets ( for the body  )








front lights













the seats



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a look at the car before painting it









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the car after we finished it

[Richard]

Welcome Hamad, some fun work there with your friends.

Looks like you've had a good go at everything yourselves.

Well done on your first build   

['The Gaffer']

A warm welcome to the club Hamad.

Some very good pics and a great build.

Great weather you have there for kit car driving too

If you have a moment, please say hello in the introduce yourself section of the forum.

Phil.

[Bulldog Bri]

Hello and a warm British welcome to our growing club, guess you get the 'Long distance' prize.

your car looks very good and with that engine it must be pretty quick!!! 

Did you use the Ron Champion book to help with the build? and how easy is it to get legalised and registared for the road over there?

Hope you get loads of fun out of it.

['The Gaffer']

This is a continuation of Hamad's original post, it was too big so I have tagged it on here...






we  wanted  the car to be  much better then this but us being far away from the city  and depending only on our college salary  ( which is 850 Saudi Riyals btw )  , this is what we came up .... 

[Richard]

Hamad, I think we all have ideas of our builds being better than they turn out.

A great project though and I am sure you've all learnt loads from the experience as I am.

Being away from the city though you'll be using some of those straight roads I am sure.

[dave_bence]

Hello and welcome Hamad and friends

Building a scratch-built car in just six months is good going - well done!

[Hamad]

A warm welcome to the club Hamad.

Some very good pics and a great build.

Great weather you have there for kit car driving too

If you have a moment, please say hello in the introduce yourself section of the forum.

Phil.

thanks and will do 

Hello and a warm British welcome to our growing club, guess you get the 'Long distance' prize.

your car looks very good and with that engine it must be pretty quick!!! 

Did you use the Ron Champion book to help with the build? and how easy is it to get legalised and registared for the road over there?

Hope you get loads of fun out of it.

no, we didn't use any books , we just got the idea from various locost pics and then started working on the car ,,, 

its not easy ,, we couldn't get it registared  ,,  the only thing we maneged to get is
a piece of paper  that allows  us to transfor the car from place to place   

[YellaBelly]

Hi Hamad,

Nice job

Our company travel to the Middle East quite a lot, so if I make it out to Saudi I'll let you know and maybe we can meet so I can see the car for real?

JB

[Hairy Santa]

Welcome Hamad,

I must congratulate on that Car, well done

Nice to see 3 young men using their brains to put something like this together, looks like you have used everything apart from the kitchen sink  -  or have you !!!!!

looks like your going to have a lot of fun in the future

all the best

Pete

[aliwizard]

welcome hamad,
i just like to say what a great job you have done on your first build ,nice to see three young guys out in the workshop learning new skills, instead of sitting in front of  there playstations ,all you young guys and girls get building cheers nick.