Are there any transaxles that bolt to the Rover V8s? I'd guess they're relatively easy to find over there and fairly compact and lightweight.
Are there any transaxles that bolt to the Rover V8s? I'd guess they're relatively easy to find over there and fairly compact and lightweight.
AngryCorvair said:In reply to Torkel :
I'm mating an Audi 01X to a 5.7L SBC via homemade adapter and flywheel, and installing it in the middle of a 1965 Corvair. I'll let you know how long the 01X lives, as it is my intent to hit it harder and harder until it breaks. I can get them all day long for under $400 USD.
DeBoss Garage in Canada put an LS type GM engine in an Audi. I think they used a home made adapter plate but don't recall - it should be shown in more detail in one of their videos, and the process used should be similar for any other engine. https://debossgarage.com/build/audi-quattro-ls
Can you just buy a Lotus nose up to the windscreen ? new or used ?
If that was the style you wanted that would be the EASY way ,
In reply to NOHOME :
The "bigness" is an illusion. The old guy sitting on the tire can't be very big. Look at the picture in the link I posted with the driver in the car and it looks nicely proportioned.
I bet you could go over to Apexspeed and ask around for where the vintage race guys get their fiberglass made. I have a friend with a FF that recently had a new body made for his. I just cant remember where they go.
Is the fibreglass a shell, or is it structural? If it's structural, could you use Burt Rutan's fibreglass over foam method of construction? These have been flying for over 45 years and the method is well documented.
Much input and questions: I appreciate that!
I've checked up on the Rover V8 as well, but it is rare that it ends up in a mid engine configuration. If so, it's with a "proper" racing transmission, like for example a Hewland.
The contacts at the SCCA forum is not going to be much help, since (again) I'm located in Sweden.
Maybe the original cars structure was improved by the body, but my plan is to have it strictly as a skin over a steel frame chassi. Like a super7.
I think it has to be a glass fiber body after all. Realistically, me learning the trade of shaping ALU would extend the project a bit too much. Possibly even foooreeeveeer. It still means learning a new technique (glass fiber molding) but I have several friends in the series I race in who make their own glass fiber parts, so I'll get help and guidance there.
I think it's time to make a spec sheet and start estimating the parts I need -> budget and possibly some new equipment for the garage.
Do you have a track that will let you race it? Obviously not street legal, so where to play? The cage does not meet current safety standards.
In reply to nimblemotorsports :
Not a problem. Any track/organizer will let me run it if it has a proper chassi mounted roll bar. Which it will have, since I don't want to die. (Although dying while crashing my home made vintage style single seater on track would probably be pretty high on the list of "good ways to check out".)
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