The 818 Engineering Team (from L to R - Frank K., Jim S., Dan M., and Colby W.) began building our 818S this morning. This is the first production chassis from production tooling and the completed car will be presented at the June 15th Factory Five Open House! The team is writing/editing/QCing the 818 assembly manual before customers receive their kits.



The 818 chassis/welding jig was moved into production about 10 days ago. This picture shows the first production frame (we've made 4 pre-production chassis). This is always an exciting time when there is a formal hand off from R&D to production.



The R&D group has had a welder (Jon D.) working along side them and training for the last four months.



Jon D. in welding begins work in earnest on 818S chassis.



The Factory Five chassis serves as the foundation of a serious performance car. Here's a Mk4 Roadster chassis in final stages of welding.



818 firewall aluminum is one of the first assembly steps in the build.



The 818 project has been conceived, executed, and guided by our team of professional degreed mechanical engineers. Here's a fun snapshot of the FFR engineering bookshelf.

The next 30 days may not have a tremendous amount of information released since we are in the last sprint towards production and building our street car. This is a fun, exciting, and bittersweet time as it marks the end of a major new product development and the beginning of a new product life cycle. The exciting part for me is KNOWING how competent this chassis design is and how many possibilities and exiting adventures lie ahead.