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Originally Posted by 4dnut
I have built a 1974 zak replica, 2 litre BDG on Lucas etc, I have all the tooling to make an alloy atlas, I am very weight conscious so made all the patterns to remake the atlas.The casting is a bit wider with gusseting resulting in double the stiffness in the toe plane and the same stiffness in the camber plane(I performed bending tests on my alloy atlas and a normal atlas).We used chromoly tubes and the result was a casing 10kg lighter than a standard one.Here is an address of some pis of my car.
Also go to ebay de and buy a copy of raylle racing 7/74 they road test the zak car
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Wow that is a great looking car- a real credit to you. Thanks for posting the info! They look like centrelock wheels- were they specially made as well?