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Hand adapted Drift Car for disabled

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Hey my names Liam Shetly, im 21 from Chichester, uk.
On March 31st 2015 my life changed forever , i had a bmx bicycle accident breaking my c5 vertebrae in my neck damaging my spinal cord.


After a opperation on my neck using a bone graph from my pelvis to reconstruct my neck i was induced into a medical coma for two and a half weeks.

During the two weeks there was concern that my heart had been damaged by the surgery , with blood pressure levels sitting extremely low.

skipping a few stages of my story im currently about to leave a rehabilitation center confined to a wheelchair , my injury has left me with no hand or leg function classing me as a tetraplegic , where all four limbs have been affected by the spinal cord injury.



And this is where my vision comes in , im wanting to develop the first automatic , hand controlled tetraplegic friendly drift car.


Before my injury ive always had a passion for cars & extreme sports , and it is my dream to make these sort of machines availible to myself and the rest of the disabled community.

I plan to use a bmw e36 coupe as the base of the project while removing all extra uneeded weight , constructing a disabled friendly roll cage , seating and harness's.


Once the first stage is completed a doner vehicle will be found with a high power twin turbo 2jz engine from a japanese vehicle using all wiring/looms to fit the engine to the bmw shell , while removing the bmw's factory engine and gearbox.


after many other minor details are installed e.g welded differental , coilovers ect , i will attempt to build a electronic clutch system to work with a hydro hand brake and automatic gearbox and install a tetraplegic friendly removeable steering wheel and grip.

the cars acceleration and braking will be opperated by push , pull braking and accelerating , location of the controls will be posted at a later time.

thank you for your time , please consider helping me make the dream come true, thank you in advance!


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