I'm perfecting (or learning) my CAD skills, so I thought I'd do something simple by creating a steel wheel from a road car, in order to get to grips with it. It turns I'm not much good with CAD, so I'd better keep practicing, because I want to model some more complex objects... like an actual car.
Once I've finished the wheel. I'm going to start on the hub, which requires 4 studs hence the ISO thread info etc... I was going to do the tyre... but that wasn't going to be much of a challenge.
Any way eventually I want to have the bodyshell, and major chassis components modelled. But I could be here a while... which isn't that bad. The only problem is that I don't actually have a car to take measurements from, so I'm working from the ford workshop manual, the haynes manual. I'm going to have to start buying one of everything soon to measure stuff! Soon I'll have half a car! Oh an the anoying thing is that the workshop manual doesn't refer to the 3dr version of the car, only the 5dr which is more anoying...
I've been planning the modifications to my next car for well over a year now... and to make sure everything is going to work, and I know how stuff is going to fit together I want to have it drawn out. I've managed to find suppliers for many of the mechanical parts, as well as body pannels. I'm going to keep planning until I can afford to start it. And judging by my projected cost (a lot) probably not going to have sufficient funds until next summer, and then its going to take a few years to finish.. and then I'll probably crash it!