Alez
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| posted on 29/10/03 at 09:24 AM |
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Mid-bike-engined?
Having a bike engined Locost, I was wondering if this would make a good racing car or not. On one hand, good racing cars tend to be mid engined RWD
for best road holding when putting your foot down. On the other hand, the case of a BEC is a very particular one, the weight of the engine being not
so far from the weight of the driver etc. Also, I've been told about bike engined Locosts doing wheelies sometimes (when sufficient grip is
found) and it looks like a mid engined one would make things much worse.
Suposedly, another reason why good racing cars are mid engined is so they don't have a huge oversteer tendency, but I suppose that's no so
important, if the car corners well who cares how it does it, no?
Any thoughts? Any kit cars like that out there? There is this expensive, mad one (I'm just jealous) Jon was building, the MK GT1 I seem to
remember. Any others, I don't know, maybe any resembling the UVA Fugitive?
Cheers,
Alex
PS: Posting this to "BEC" and "Mid-engined"...
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 29/10/03 at 10:38 AM |
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There are lots of mid engined BECs, and if you think the MK GT1 is expensive, then don't bother looking at Radicals or the Westfield XTR2 
I really doubt the wheelie claim to be honest, but anyway, a front engined BEC can obviously be made into a good track / race car, as many do already,
just look at the RGB bike series that Jon enters, 95% of those cars have the same basic engine layout as a Locost, and there are a couple of Locosts
that do race in that series.
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Alez
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| posted on 30/10/03 at 05:47 PM |
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Just took a look to Radicals and XTR2, quite expensive as you said, nothing to do with the Locost route, quite nice though. Interesting stuff in the
750 site, was good to browse through the lap times and results.
Cheers,
Alex
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