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iceman26

posted on 11/12/10 at 07:39 PM Reply With Quote
chain dif

im building a single seater with bie engine and wanted to use chain drive
and wanted to know could you get away with using a solid shaft like on gokart
or will it cause to much scrubbing of tyres or winding up of the axle shaft,
the car is not going to be used on road only track toy tarmac use
so whats your opinion on this
thanks

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adithorp

posted on 11/12/10 at 07:49 PM Reply With Quote
Will understeer horribly unless you light up the tyres... then oversteer/drift. Not really any good on track.





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multanen

posted on 11/12/10 at 07:56 PM Reply With Quote
Has anyone actually tried solid diff on track?
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austin man

posted on 11/12/10 at 07:57 PM Reply With Quote
contact Martin Keenan at MKEngineering he has been doing this type of thing for years having recently designed built a single seater and a Midi 7 both with bike engines in the rear





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T66

posted on 11/12/10 at 08:14 PM Reply With Quote
start watching ebay/pistonheads etc for a quaife chain drive diff...


Or try MK as they convert a Fiesta one.


A used quaife can be yours for £350

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mangogrooveworkshop

posted on 11/12/10 at 09:08 PM Reply With Quote
http://www.westgarage.co.uk/services/chain/chaindrives.html










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crossedthread

posted on 11/12/10 at 09:33 PM Reply With Quote
or maybe this: Diff with sprocket for Bike Engined Car on eBay (end time 19-Dec-10 20:18:50 GMT)









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MikeR

posted on 11/12/10 at 09:54 PM Reply With Quote
You may want to talk to Retropower - they've got a neet diff solution on BEC their building.
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dhutch

posted on 11/12/10 at 10:17 PM Reply With Quote
Gokart stearing geometry and weight distro is designed so that under cornering the inside wheel lifts of the ground, unless your planning to do this for a seven, which i suggest your not, a live rear axle is not going to be clever.


Daniel

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