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mid-buggy

posted on 17/4/10 at 11:37 AM Reply With Quote
BEC Mid Buggy? Which Engine?

Has anyone got a BEC Middi completed?

Am looking at fitting an R1 (old carb) into a gtm cox style car and looking for info and most common problems.

Cheers

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russbost

posted on 17/4/10 at 05:39 PM Reply With Quote
No experience really with the GTM, but think the biggest prob you will find is that any front wheel drive eng/box is very compactly packaged & it is very difficult with a Midi BEC installation to reduce the distance from front of exh headers to rear of diff chainwheel (assuming you're using the engine transverse & a chain diff?

That said I believe there is a firm doing a FWD conversion on Minis using the Yamaha lump which must get the unit into the same space as a Mini lump - can't remember how they get it all in tho' - try Googling Yamaha Mini or BEC FWD Mini or similar???





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Humbug

posted on 17/4/10 at 06:01 PM Reply With Quote
There you go - R1 conversion for mini here. Not cheap, but might give you some ideas for fabrication, etc.
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mid-buggy

posted on 18/4/10 at 10:32 AM Reply With Quote
Yeah looked at that, i wouldnt need the frame, just the diff gears etc

Doubt they would sell just the parts thou.

When you look at the cost of a 100bhp A-Series, price seems to even out (for instance a s/c box costs £1,000 from MED)

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