Bigpower

This is a project I have had going for nearly 10!! years, but now the car is back at my house hope to get some progress on it and get it on the road.

Here are some pics to start with and I will give a bit more detail later.

:-D you can tell it's been 10 years from the style of those alloys ...

only joshing chief .. good luck, should be a laugh.

i love them car's one day when i get enough space and time i'd love to build one with a bike engine 8)

They make them about 3 miles from my house

It winds me up to see them sitting on the side of the road, just waiting for me to buy one

New 'Ring Tool' then Rob? :-D

Looks good mate :thumb:

My brother and a mate both have Locosts,great fun

I see these parked at Guyhirn on the side of the road all the time.
Do you buy them in kit form or ready made?
What engines go in them?

Nice Rob - needs a roll over bar though

Loads or option from the good old pinto up to twin 1000cc bike engined cars :lol:

They held a few speed records for some time

Cars can be brought fully built of in kit form

murano3 wrote::-D you can tell it's been 10 years from the style of those alloys ...

only joshing chief .. good luck, should be a laugh.

They were a new style when I got them Smith Twisters in a then huge 15"

BrianGT4 wrote:New 'Ring Tool' then Rob?

Will use it as a track toy so no doubt the Ring will get a Visit at some point! 8)

dynamix wrote:Nice Rob - needs a roll over bar though

I have the roll bar in the garage just not fitted yet! :-D


A bit more info for you

Brought the car in Kit form in 1997 :oops: and have done bits and pieces to it over the years but as it was a pre SVA car I have had to make some major changes to it to get it ready for an SVA test.

These include fitting a collapable stearing column and relocating the pedals so they are now floor mounted.

The Engine is a 2Ltr Ford Pinto (with a 205 block) fitted to a 5 speed type 9 gearbox.

It has a live axle from a Cortina if I remember rightly and the front end is modified from a Mk1 Golf GTI.

Most of the build is finished the main things left to do is all the wiring and some of this needs modifing due to moving things about to get the stearing column to fit and finishing off the interior hopfully this won't take too much more work to finish and I can get on with enjoying it!! :twisted: :twisted:

Ive always wondered about these Tigers. They look great and being a local company parts and and help with the build would be available *hopefully*.
I have only seen a couple of them on track days, but tbh I wasn't impressed with the quality on the welds/ fabrication on the chassis. But this could be because they were home built cars??? There's another local guy (Ipswich area I think) who has developed a similar car that looked excellent imo. I cant remember the name of his company, some one may know him? He was testing one at the marham track day in sept 06.