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I have been drawing up plans to make myself a car recently. its going to be very basic just for racing but not in any class or organization. Kinda jsut a thing to see if i can. i dont know if you plan on making a car with passenger seats or anything fancy like that but i had planned on just making a basic frame with roll cage out of steel tubing ( or aluminum if i can find it cheap and learn to weld it) and then jsut bolt or weld on steel or aluminum body panels and then put a little motor in it like from a honda like a b18 or maybe a 80's VW engine and carbeurate it or even a I4 motorcycle engine so i could use a cool sequential gearbox. I'll pobably get the engine from a junk yard but you can order them from places like summit depending on what you are looking for. thats for muscle cars mostly but you can get honda engines from japan and they are pretty cheap. I plan on using plexiglass for the windows to save weight and because it's easy to work with. I am mostly doing this so i can learn more about aerodynamics.

Oh, an english wheel is used to form metal to curved shapes. It cant be used on fiberglass because it is not maleable like metals. it is basically a steel ball with an axle through the center horizontally with a steel wheel above it held together with pressure and then you put the metal between them and work the metal back and forth for a long time to get the shape you want