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Vegard

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2nd Aug, 2009 at 08:53:03pm




On 1st Aug, 2009 Radleigh said:
Why not? RWD cars can handle very well short wheel base or long wheel base.

If he's gone to all that effort of space framing it, RWD would be perfect.


Yeah, look how well the Z-cars do turns.....

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

SAD_Man

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2nd Aug, 2009 at 10:24:28pm

It raced at Snetterton this weekend

It has a 6 speed sequential Xtrac gearbox

It was very quiet didn't sound anything like a V8 on the track

The lap times seemed a little slow 1:18.9 I think was the fastest lap for it in the race, but I don't know if there was oil on the track or if it had problem in the race but the laps I saw were done in the dry.

The Renault Clio Cup cars (200hp ish 1150 kg) were doing pretty well the same lap times with some intermittent drizzle a couple of races before the V8 Mini's race.

The suspension is said to be based on the Mosler sports car


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2nd Aug, 2009 at 11:07:41pm

that would be a real clever trick fitting an IRS/ diff into the back of the mini/spaceframe on a front wheel drive car,

its clearly not as it has a simple rear swing arm, with the visable remains of the one ripped off in the pictures on there site,

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SAD_Man

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3rd Aug, 2009 at 07:25:56am

I have never seen the suspension as the body work was on the car the whole time.

The 'Mosler' comment is direct from them not me, they had a board up next to the car in the Paddock which stated that the suspension was based on the Mosler and a few other details about the car.

Rollcentre / Martin Short runs a Mosler in British GT and they were the 'co-creators' of the car, so which bits of it are in anyway based on it I dont know.

Yes, I also appreciate that this car is FWD and the Mosler RWD.


Radleigh

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4th Aug, 2009 at 01:59:13am




On 2nd Aug, 2009 Vegard said:


On 1st Aug, 2009 Radleigh said:
Why not? RWD cars can handle very well short wheel base or long wheel base.

If he's gone to all that effort of space framing it, RWD would be perfect.


Yeah, look how well the Z-cars do turns.....


Rear engined thats why....

just personal opinion *tongue*

Lightweight racer coming soon.


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kent

4th Aug, 2009 at 10:01:43am

I thought they handled pretty well?

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4th Aug, 2009 at 10:20:19am

I think its a can of worms when it comes to wich is best at handling, i lost my bottle as i was going to have the engine in the rear of mine but couldnt convince myself that it would actually handle. Yes it would be fun for burnouts , drifting etc but if it didnt handle i would of been pissed off.

sad man, i was watching touring cars sunday tea and as it finished they left the camera on the pit wall while they were showing the results. guess wot ,the proper cars came out including harvey deaths mini.
They should of shown that race*frown*

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5th Aug, 2009 at 02:15:30pm

What's the engine? I'm not aware of any small flat plane V8's. Sounds great.

Not sure about FWD either, probably more suited to slinging around than RWD. Thing mini vs 7 autotest......

Bugger off, I'm getting there.
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