LTDScott wrote:Wow, the shot with them welded together almost looks stock. And you get to keep the same lug pattern front and rear. Bloody brilliant!
It's great how much is interchangeable. Same engines front and rear. The bigger MR2 brakes bolted right on to the Corolla. The nice stock wheels are on Bender’s street MR2 and we’ll be running a set of MR2 triangles. We're hoping axles are interchangeable. Other than suspension, most of our spare MR2 parts collection is going to be direct fit.
LTDScott wrote:Wow, the shot with them welded together almost looks stock. And you get to keep the same lug pattern front and rear. Bloody brilliant!
The lines are very similar. This notion first occurred to me when the AE92 coupe first appeared and from a distance I kept mistaking them for MR2s.
sublimate wrote:Even if the ratios aren't exactly the same it'll work fine since the engine rpms aren't tied together then can adjust.
Save the manuals.
The concern lies with linking to a single shift lever. Even if front and rear wheels happened to be spinning at the exact same speed when we shift, the engines will rev down at different rates. One tranny will be ready to slip into gear before the other. One is going to grind.
We could avoid that by keeping separate shift levers, but then shifting will become a very long complex manual operation, probably 3x as long as a normal shift. Instead of press, shift, release we would have to press, shift, change grip, shift, release. Could be done but will quickly eat away at any performance improvement two engines get us in the first place, and in chaotic track situations it could be dangerously distracting.
Our solution is manual up front, automatic rear, and both throttle cables to the same pedal. We leave the rear in drive. Whenever we release the throttle pedal to shift the manual, the automatic will disengage. Then after the manual shift when we are back on the throttle, automatic kicks back in. We basically drive normally and hopefully both transmissions last the race.