RAM SC Wet Weather Gear

[Hagster]

Hi all,
Been some time since i last posted but still looking for a good Cobra.
Have been offered what looks to be a pretty good RAM SC..
Unfortunately it comes with no wet weather gear although provisions have been made to accomodate it the description says.

Any RAM SC owners fancy giving me a little feedback on this make of replica, and if wet wether gear is readaly available for these.

Do RAM have a web page. off to look now.

Thanks in advance.

[dingocooke]

Hi Hagster,

I went to LR in the early 1990's after doing the rounds of the kits around then (DAX, Unique autocraft, Magnum) and decided I would go for a RAM based on Reynard desgined chassis, with steel tube supports bonded into shell to stop the 'floppy copy' sensation when you lift the body off (without it nearly all the bodies I've seen seem to hinge in the middle where the door openings are).
Well work changed, and I never bought the kit, but years later I sold my short stroke Manx Norton, and decidied to look again, narrowed it down to a GD, AK or RAM, and bought a very nicely built RAM, and have not regretted it; no scuttle shake, nice handling, easy to work on.
At then endof the day, most things can be fixed if the chassis is oK!
Realm still supply the RAM, but website is next to useless, and they have no sales lit, so not great from that angle but you can get parts, and full kits, and Adrain Cocking is really helpfull on the phone. Roger Klimcke and Cheng Limm are good for RAM info too.

Re the wet weather gear, its very standard cobra stuff, i.e. if you stop when it starts to rain you'll be very wet by the time you have the hood frame up, fastened on the hood, and then poppoed in the side screens, but i think every cobra clone is the same?

Heres a pic of the hood up on mine, personally I think it looks OK, but they're not exactly pretty!!

Good luck, and drop me a line/pm if you want any more info/pics etc.

Steve:thumb:

[dingocooke]

Forgot to say, if you do buy one, and want to copy my hood frame, hood, sidescreens, finig locations etc iots no problem (sorry no photo of sidescreens at the momoent)


Steve:thumb:

[spoonies]

Hello

I also bought my RAM as a completed kit without wet weather gear. Mine had also had it fitted at some point but it was not available when I bought it.

After plenty of searching, bought the frame from Dax and fitted it, got the hood from "the Trim Shop" in Redditch who made the RAM hoods although mine is the DAX hood which fits fine. Hood bows and clips came from Brass craft, all fitted by a local trim specialist and it works a treat.
Having been caught in the rain a couple of times, It's worth mentioning that it's better to have the top, than go without, but only marginally! All it seems to really do is stop the rain getting sucked back onto the inside of the windscreen.

Given the choice, I would get a tonneau only next time, so that at least you can park it out in the rain.

Driving one of these things in the wet is not the most relaxing pastime, but it certain gets the adrenaline flowing!

As for the RAM as a vehicle, IMHO it's got a fabulous chassis and with the right engine/box combination and the suspension set up correctly, handles like a Cobra should.

Colin