What Do You Need to Know to Make A Car with Your Own Hands?

The process of making a car with your own hands cannot be called simple. Even the famous cars manufacturers sometimes make mistakes in calculations and assembling cars. Nevertheless, if there is a great desire and ability to work by hands, you can make a car by yourself using available materials and tools. Besides everything else a strong will and persistence are necessary for this purpose, then it is possible to receive impressive results.

Base knowledge and skills which are necessary is: understanding device of the automobile, ability to work with metal, fiberglass and putty, ability to use the welding machine, base knowledge of automobile electronics.

Some things you do not know how to do will have to be learned in the process of creating a car. You can learn much from manuals and information from the Internet. Sometimes it is reasonable to resort to the help of specialists. Think what you can do by yourself and for what stage it is better to involve another master. Many people want to think that they are first-rate masters of all hands, and they can do everything themselves, without help. It is, at times, the reason why the project is delayed for too long. After all what can be done by skilled professional for a day, the amateur can spend a week, or even longer. For example, if you are not able to paint you can prepare the body for painting by yourself and take the car to the painter for the painting. Or you can entrust the interior upholstery with upholstery material to professionals in this business. Thus, the general process of creating a car will not seem unreal.

Workshop and Tools

It is necessary to arrange a warm workshop with enough free space.

Manufacturing of automobiles by your own hands demands presence of necessary tools. Special tools and machines make the work quicker and easier, but you can do without them.

Here are the basic necessary tools you need when creating an automobile with your own hands:

• It is necessary to have a good workbench with big vises.
• Complete set of hand tools
• Drill, and better setup for rotary drilling
• Tumbler
• Welding machine (the best semi-automatic machine).
• Compressor. For painting and for functionally operating pneumatic tools.
• Paint sprayer.
• Clamps of different sizes (for fastening the parts before welding).
• Kicks of different sizes and shapes, hammers and supports for metal forming (in case of sheet metal forming).
• Machine “English wheel” and sheet bending machine (for easier sheet metal creating). As it was mentioned before, you can do without these machines, hammers and cues even if you make a body of sheet metal. We will consider different methods of body creation in this article below.

How to Make A Car from Scratch by Yourself?

Making a car from scratch presupposes the creation of all its components and their correct layout. It is a very uneasy process and can take an indefinitely long time. For example, American Ken Imhoff making a copy of Lamborghini Countach automobile maximally approximated to the original manufactured everything from the ground up, even wheel disks. Being a professional metal fabricator, he spent 17 years to completely finish his project. He admitted in interview that it was not a profitable occupation and was like an interesting game for him. The most common way to create a car by your own hands is to use the existing serial car as the basis and modify it. It is the most real way to make a car by your own hands – to make a frame, a body and interior by yourself and to take all other components from another car or several cars. Exactly the same is done by small car manufacturers all over the world for the last 50 years or more.

It is necessary to have the necessary manuals for the car that will be used as a donor to understand the structure of all its units (engine, steering, suspension, brake system, electrics).

Creating Your Own Body Design

Many car enthusiasts dream of having one single car with an unusual design, the car of their dreams. It is possible to design and make such car by yourself. The beginning of planning of design and construction of an automobile begins with an idea. Design can be individual or combine existing forms taken from other cars. For example, it can be the front part looking like one car and the back part looking like another. When an image of your car will be thought up, it is necessary to draw it. There are many graphics computer programs which will help you to plan and design your car. Having decided how your car will look, it is necessary to understand, what wheelbase will suit it. It is necessary to choose a donor similar to the parameters so that the wheelbase corresponds, or it will be necessary to change it.

Donor Selection

The donor car must match your project according to geometric parameters. It is better to decide a reliable and simple in service car as a donor, spare parts for which are not too expensive. To save your money, you can buy a car with a damaged body as a donor.

Sometimes, when making a car by your own hands, engines from powerful motorcycles are used. They combine a light weight and decent power at a small volume.

Registration of A Self-Made Car

Many things depend on the country where you live and requirements for cars at registration. If you are not going to drive a car on public roads, this will not be a problem.

Although many people want a homemade car, but only a few of them take up manufacturing. And that is more the exception to the rule, because the manufacture of homemade cars takes from several years to a decade. And only brave and patient people take it, and we hope that this article has helped you to understand something, and decide for yourself whether it is worth it.