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Where would you put the big cell?
FIA certified and in the passenger seat, of course!
m610 wrote:How about a twin engine Mini Clubman. This guy drag races his. I wonder if it could be road raced.
Link: http://www.twinenginemini.co.uk/
The videos are interesting. He has traction problems plus is still working to sync the motors, shifting, etc.
But, give Clint the parts and he could make it work.
Edit - he has videos showing the car in autox and road tracks.
Buttonwillow 2010. Won't be a clubman or an estate, but a round nose saloon.
Best made plans... Ain't happening until 2011 some time. The Apollo 18 car is taking longer than I'd planned.
If you want to be the first twin Lemon, you're going to have to finish and race your project before May: http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewtopic.php?id=8787
Biggest problem is the fuel tank or tanks, no passenger fuel tanks so the real problem is where to put it??
I'm not quite as ambitious as you guys. Why not take 2 auto FWD cars of the same make, cut em half, flip the diff in one and weld both front ends together? You could even be lazy/crazy and let the steering wheel lock the rear wheels straight. Seems like a lot of engineering problems go away. I'll admit it was a bit disconcerting at Buttonwillow to come up on the 2002 with the front grille and front end treatment on the back of it. Put a dummy with gigantic eyes popping out of the helmet at the wheel of the "back" car.
Biggest problem is the fuel tank or tanks, no passenger fuel tanks so the real problem is where to put it??
No Fuel tank. Electric.
Problem solved.
This is pretty cool, it's got alot of dragsters, but great pictures and info.
http://twotogo.homestead.com/index.html
Another one:
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/03/ … 8-engines/
One more:
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car … ialty_file
How could you guys forget the Mosler Twinstar Eldorado?
And I believe GM built a Pushme-PullYou out of 2 Citations as well, which had something to do with the Fiero Project.
http://www.gt.ppdictionary.com/gm_proto … on_X11.jpg
I think Mosler said using automatic transmissions he didn't even worry about using one 300hp and one 275hp Northstar. Of course the twin engine Citation was twice as bad as the original. I believe the rear engine had no accessory drive, just a water pump. So you could drive with just the front motor, running the charging system, p/s, p/b, and AC, or both, but you couldn't run on just the rear.
I just noticed the city local fleet auction has 3 Neons with under 60k miles for an opening bid of $500. Lemons has my thinking corrupted even though I can't go to check it out I some how have the evil idea of a TRIPLE ENGINE Neon.
as the trend here seems to be.... WHAT THE HELL "COULD" POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
3 engine around 150HP in on little crap car that been heavily maintained be the city and likely not very abused. 450 total combined Horse Power + 6 wheel drive = AWESOMESAUCE
lol just kidding
but if you want a dare... then I dare you
Alan and I have been making sketches of an idea on how to put two 1.9L Opel motors end to end. We're thinking it would include a clutch between them so we could start one motor at a time, and an electric water pump. Not sure how to handle the distributors. Maybe a crank sensor and a solid state ignition.
Picture an Opel GT with a really long nose, and maybe four wheels up front to support the weight of both motors. Hey, this is starting to sound familiar.
There was a show car in 1967 on the cover of Hot Rod with 2 V8s, and 2 automatic transmissions. Then the power went via 2 driveshafts to 2 Jaguar IRS center sections, one an LSD, one opened. The center sections were connected via what would be the axle outputs that met in the middle, and 2 half shafts were connected to the wheels. This way it eliminated the problem of the 2 motors turning slightly different speeds, at least in theory. I have the issue somewhere. I will see if I can find it and post it.
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