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I used to work for a really small kit car firm in Kent, we did a car from scratch while I was there.
I designed a chassis for them made from 25x25 ERW box with tubular double wishbones - the chassis was a bit of a mash up of pre-existing ideas from their other car they made and some stuff transferred from the caterham +4 chassis.
It took us ~9months to do the first chassis, we had designed the bodywork and had various scale models / renderings of it but they refused to tool for any of it until they had 10 orders for cars
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I definitely appreciate it's a fairly mammoth undertaking alright and I'm conscious of not making it unpleasantly difficult so I think it may definitely be a better idea to try and utilise some existing suspension from a donor car and working from that but it would be nice to read up on it all first to have an idea of why I'm choosing a particular donor car and why it works well!
I feel like removing the actual suspension geometry from the equation makes it a lot more manageable possibly? I don't doubt the bodywork will be a big ask too, I was loosely thinking kevlar would be a good way to go but again I'm only beginning to think about this whole idea for a project so I'm not in a rush to get started until I've done the homework and come up with a good plan that should be achievable rather than diving head first into something I'll never finish!