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In preparing the build of this car, I set myself a number of 'musts', as far as the things that the car had to contain and the looks it had to have once it was finished. This included the fact that the ONLY power plant for my car was that it HAD to have Cosworth power and that it had to have magnesium rims. Further detail as to the desired specification can be found below, by clicking on one of the specific areas listed above.

'To build a road legal thoroughbred race car'                                 ultimate goal of the project, 2000

 

The ultimate goal of this project is to get my sorry ass off motorcycles and into the 'safety' of this go-kart on steroids.  (As long as it is able to go out and 'play' with big bore sports bikes that is!)

Because of its intended 'race' bias, I want this to be bare to the bone and only have the necessities. What this means, is that a lot of the 'extra' gear such as radios, heaters (although I am told I won't need this anyway, due to the extreme heat developed by the turbo) etc will have to be easily removable if they want a place in my car!  All this to save weight for the track.

Keeping this core focus in mind, I wanted the steering wheel to be removable which meant that the indicator and windscreen wiper stalks would not be an option (although I have found a way of doing this now using motorcycle handlebar controls). Seeing as I did not relish the idea of having loads of switches on the dash (see picture below) I opted for a much cleaner, less cluttered look by only having switches on the dashboard to operate the wipers and lights.  The rest will be placed on the motorcycle switches behind the steering wheel (which is also incidentally SVA friendly) and on the steering wheel its self..

Thus, as function is more important than looks I came up with the idea of using small switches on the steering wheel (as adapted by Stephan from Dax_Super_Stephan fame before me).   On the steering wheel I will mount the switches for the indicators, the lap timer / high beam 'flash' switch and the horn.  The only real difficulty of this idea, is how to link the buttons on the steering wheel to the wiring loom, if the steering wheel is designed to be removed when the car is parked up? The way of solving this, is by using an (eight strand) computer network cable, allowing me to wire up all the switches whilst being small enough not to clutter the steering column and the aesthetics of the concept.

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