How to build your own Supercar (The Essential Manual)

Using the author’s mid engined sports car as the featured build this book is written to encourage and inspire you with your own automotive dreams. It describes the unique inexpensive ideas and techniques that were combined to achieve impressive results and lift the project car from average to outstanding. All the ideas can be adapted to solve your own problems and meet your own particular requirements. The book focuses mainly on fiberglass moulding and modification including the manufacture of a stylish rear wing spoiler from a basic wooden mould to the construction of a pair of gull wing doors using the same method. It does not neglect other aspects of car building with other sections covering such things as the vacuum forming of a pair of headlight fairings, how to ensure systems such as twin fuel tanks and mid engined gear linkages work as intended and how the exhaust system was made. The final chapter lifts the lid on how to make a professional looking leather trimmed interior. Two hundred and fifty detailed photographs, sectional views and exploded diagrams ensure maximum clarity.

This book is written specifically for the home car builder and restorer showing that inexpensive materials can be used to achieve excellent results at home with minimal expense. Various scrap materials are pressed into service to make complex moulds for items such as simple air intakes and complete gull wing door assemblies. The informal style makes for easy reading, which ensures the more complex and unusual techniques are readily understood. Many detail photographs, sectional views and exploded diagrams take the reader step by step through each procedure for maximum clarity.