Rager

[Guest trevor hooley]

3 seris compact would make an ideal donar car, small cheap easy to find, 4cl 1.6 - 1.8 1.9 2ltr or 6cyl 2.3. pick them up for £1000 now with service history.

 

karl

[Guest ash]

BMW eh?

i saw on a locost web-site that bmw's have been used in left-hand-drive se7ens

however as the 3 series is designed as a LHD the engine is on a slant .you will have problems locating the steering colomn and pedals within the confined space under the bonnet.

check it out for yourself

 

http://locost7.info/mirror/z7locost.php

 

however if RH can squeeze a 325i straight six into a hood i'd be very intrested

[Bob Tucker]

RS Jigtec's 7ish TRAKSTAR was fitted with a 6 cyl. BMW at the Stoneleigh show.

It looked pretty good, but was one lump of an engine.

Anyone got any idea of the weight of engine/bellhousing & box?

Bob.

[Guest mickmellors]

I asked the same question at the show and the answer I got was - 'It is 20% heavier, 50% more power as standard and 200% more tunable' That was the nearest I got to a 'proper' answer but it does set you thinking, especially with some of the D, E, F and G registered BMW prices going like they are. 2 weeks ago I saw a driveable 325 on a G plate with a slightly crunched front wing, bonnet and passenger door up for sale with tax and MOT for £400 ONO - £300 in crisp £10 notes would probably have secured the deal. A mate drives an older 730 which is on private plates but I think it is a D reg, and he only paid £250 for it 2 years ago, and it is absolutely stunning condition, too good to be a donor ! The BMW's will soon be the only rear wheel drives available to the Kit Car builder.

It amazes me that rear wheel drive Vauxhall Carltons never became popular donors. My E plate 2.O efi was a great car. There were also 2.6 and 3.0 versions all of which can be found on more recent plates for well under £500 with Tax and MOT.

[Guest Chris.A.]

It certainly looked fun at first glance, but those rear lights inside chrome headlights, right behind the rear wheels, ugh! no! they'll last about 2 weeks before the chrome is knackered, i think that the rearlights should be somewhat mor conventional inside a housing of some sorts. Apart from that I think it's a goer!

well, the first thing I thought when I admired the backend of the RAVER at Donnington was, I could give this the seeing to it deserves if JIM doesn`t get there first!

so , if they bought one would they be "HOODIES" ? or something else? especialy if they like the big lump in the back instead of the front!

personally, ( sorry,.....I just laught then....)personally I think transverse ,rear option is the best thing for Richard Stuart . ( I`m not being rude ,mate, honest.)

( I sent him a load of bumf and ideas about 2 years ago......Gena,God bless her wrote back saying that Richard did not take me seriously......) xverse rear power unit HAS to be the way to go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry lads but I guess shes gotta take it from behind.

[Guest daveg]

Surely its possible to put a fwd engine into the rear thus making a rwd

 

I am thinking about this for my next project (if there is a next project )

 

Dave

PS would it do wheelies?

[ibrooks]

FWD transverse lumps into the rear to make RWD transverse cars is nothing new. There are quite a few that did it with the Mini as the rear brakes can be fairly easily put on the "front" hubs so that you get a handbrake. The Carcraft Cyclone did the same thing with the Vauxhall setup in a sevenesque type car. Personally I'd love one but they aren't available any more. Effectively this is what Lotus have done with the Elise.

 

Iain

[Guest morty]

Get yourself to your local grass tracking and see the number of novas and stuff converted to run sri130 engines in the boot, or even the class-A stuff with twin hyabusa lumps sat behind the back axle on a space frame that weighs about as much as a sheet of tissue

 

The acceleration looks immense, but the wheelies might not be road legal

 

Morty

[Guest Guy]

I used to have a hand in making Trikes, one popular method was a Mini engine, the only problem was the gear change linkage but we sorted it and it was a grate sucsess.