Dino 206P

[garyh]

Brilliant work,Axel... How's the car coming on?

[Axel]

oh yeah the car...still on hold unfortunately...

[garyh]

Snap...⏸

[thecarbuilder246]

Originally Posted by Axel

Hi guys,
I really like this site and the projects you are doing here, many fantastic builds and hundreds of ideas and different ways to build your dreamcar..!

Now it's time to introduce myself and show my project:

I live in Germany in Hamburg, and I have built two kitcars already, a Countach with spaceframe and Renault Alpine A310 suspension and engine and a Renault Alpine A110 speedster based on a shortened beetle chassis.





I sold both cars 2 years ago, and played around with Porsche 996, which never made me happy, so I sold this car too.

A polish guy here in Hamburg offers GT40 kits made in Poland for a competitive price, so I decided last year to drive to Poland to have a look. I saw a frame, and some bodyparts in quite a good quality, but I did not see a finished car or a complete body. Nevertheless I bought a "rolling chassis" with body to be delivered in october, and than the story began...

Anyway, I don't wanna tell to much about what has all happened, I picked the things up in Poland in october, and brought the stuff home.


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Hi Axle
I'm looking at building a 246 gt dino and was wondering what running gear/uprights / hubs have been used on your impressive build?
ian

[Axel]

It is a GT40 chassis build in Poland and they copied the KVA frame and uprights...
I did not do any changes to the frame and uprights, I just build a scaled Dino 206 body to fit the GT40 chassis!
I have no pics from the frame at the moment, unfortunately...

Originally Posted by thecarbuilder246

Hi Axle
I'm looking at building a 246 gt dino and was wondering what running gear/uprights / hubs have been used on your impressive build?
ian

[thecarbuilder246]

Hi
thanks axle

[Axel]

Here you can see pics from the suspension, in the front a Ford Taunus (I think Cortina in UK) is used and in the rear it is Ford Granada/Scorpio with a custom upright made from steel.
Steering is also Ford Taunus.

My latest update: the body now is welded together which turned out to be a nightmare with the long weld seems and the heat being transfered to the thin metal sheets...a lot of filler will be needed, but I expected this...!

[Axel]

For those who are interested in welding, I used CuSi wire with Argon, the reason is that you work quicker and there is not so much heat transfered in the panels, the weld seam is non-corroding and has almost the strength of standard welds with wire/CO2.
But you need to practise, I am neither a welder nor a metalshaper, but I can live with the result.
One thing you realize is, welding works fine with panels who have a lot of shape- not much distorsion, but with flat panels with very little shape in them you'll get a lot of distorsion while welding them together...you need to take this into consideration when you plan your built and where to put the panels together...!








Now comes some difficult panels for the front, I am working out its face with headlights and the plexi cover for this needs a recessed surface.
I am trying to figure out how to do the recess with metal, my cutout in the frontwing is already too big, so I need to add some material...it would be so easy to do it with glass, but I want to keep the body 100% metal...

[molleur]

Looking really well done! I've been following on another forum as well.

[Axel]

I made a simple handtool to round that corner of with a hammer, works fine!





Thanks for your compliments!
Axel

[Axel]

Another part of the airintake, I used the same handtools to shape it. Something happened to the flat surface with the round flange but I solved it with shrinking to flatten it again.




welded in:



o/a welding the corners and the flat part



Frontend with the intake

[molleur]

Very well done Axel!

[garyh]

Axel, all very clever, i bet it all feels very solid, is it very heavy?

[Paul L]

Axel - Great to see some more progress on your car.

Originally Posted by Axel

...not to far off considering I did not use a wooden buck, it is all done by photos and 100% hand built..

Your accuracy is amazing and just remember that no one else will view your car through a grid.

Well, maybe just this guy.



Good luck, Paul.

[Axel]

Thanks guys, I wanted the front to be quite stiff so I have been using 1mm sheetmetal, the rest is 0.75mm... it is solid but not too heavy, I can push the car with two finger at the moment!

[molleur]

Impressive work Axel!
Following your build on the "other" forum as well.

[Car photographer]

Nice work

[swifty]

Just come across your thread tonight and have enjoyed reading about what is a fantastic build, I thought I had a major build but your build is pure magic I especially like the have a go attitude.

Are you looking at spraying the car yourself.

[Axel]

Thanks and yeah, I will put it under primer myself and drive it like that for a while to see if everything stays or if I have tension cracks or other issues...if everything is fine I will first spray it myself and see how it turns out, might go for a professional paintjob later...!

Originally Posted by swifty

Are you looking at spraying the car yourself.

[Axel]

Another piece welded in...very complicated area but I am almost done!

Can't wait to put the headlights in...!