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Offline swainy

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Soapbox racers
« on: 30 July 2013, 12:31 »
Anybody built one?

Been looking the last few days into making one, decided on a wooden chassis so went this morning to pick a load of wood up.

Want it to look something along these lines, not sure how well itll turn out though


Offline Dan n Nic

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #1 on: 30 July 2013, 16:34 »
Looks good. I saw that Red-Bull were doing the soap box race in London back at the beginning of the year and was so tempted to build one and enter.

Offline swainy

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #2 on: 30 July 2013, 17:02 »
Yer it was on 14th July at ally palley.

There's a couple of local ones near me so gonna try get it entered to one of them.

Offline mcgee9t2

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #3 on: 30 July 2013, 18:33 »
always wanted to do the redbull one. but bit to far for me.

Offline archie837

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #4 on: 30 July 2013, 22:39 »
I'm pretty sure the one in the top pic is our mate OJ's he made for the derby at the hotrod hayride a couple years back.

It was on this weekend so may be why you are seeing a few more pics than normal of some?
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Offline swainy

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #5 on: 31 July 2013, 08:34 »
Yer it was for the hotrod hayride.

Found a few pics of it but have been searching for others.

Thing I'm struggling to work out is how to attach the front axle.

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Re: Soapbox racers
« Reply #6 on: 31 July 2013, 22:04 »
Anti roll bar mounts. The ones that bolt onto a car body and hold the roll bar in place with bushes.
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