Alez
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| posted on 29/10/03 at 09:25 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"...
Oh, also I thought it was about time you saw my ugly Spanish face so I uploaded my Avatar pic. It's just so you are warned and know what to
expect next Newlands corner meeting (this sunday, isn't it?).
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ned
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| posted on 29/10/03 at 09:50 AM |
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Alez,
this sunday is now Wlaton bridge, not newlands corner, see clubs and events section for thread with map...
Only other rear engined cars i know of are radicals (not kits) and the adr1000 (built for 750mc sports 1000 championship, but they've developed
a road car, though not a kit as far as i know) and then theres the very expensive (like double the gt1 + more £) westfield xtr (which fails noise
tests at goodwood  )
see you sunday...
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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sgraber
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| posted on 30/10/03 at 04:52 PM |
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Alez,
Take a look at DSR.Racer.net for an entire website chock full of mid-engine BEC cars. You'll be sure to find lots of usefull info there.
http://dsr.racer.net/index.html
Later,
Graber
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Alez
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| posted on 30/10/03 at 05:50 PM |
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Thanks guys! I look forward to meeting you on Sunday... at Walton Bridge!
The DSR website looks awesome, BTW.
Cheers,
Alex
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ProjectLMP
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| posted on 31/10/03 at 03:20 PM |
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I've got a bunch of links on my webpage covering mid-engined bike powered cars.
http://members.rogers.com/projectlmp/
Home of the Astronomicalcost Mid engined LMP project
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Alez
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| posted on 24/11/03 at 11:45 AM |
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Hi,
Sorry I missed your reply, thanks a lot for pointing me to you site, unfortunately I'll need to wait a few days since it "has exceeded the
monthly traffic allowance". I look forward to surfing to it.
Cheers,
Alex
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