xrboss8 Member 156 Member For: 19y 6m 3d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 19/09/05 03:21 AM Share Posted 19/09/05 03:21 AM When are they in production, the missus is looking at a new car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrav8 Member 1,969 Member For: 19y 9m 9d Gender: Male Location: New Zealand Posted 19/09/05 03:27 AM Author Share Posted 19/09/05 03:27 AM Yeh - well - I am only going by what the Ford guy told me, and he is going to be on the pit crew - so has a fairly good idea.My Escort motor sits so that the middle of the motor is under the base of the windscreen. My seats are not moved back from standard - its just that the tunnel grew massively wider, so you dont have as much room left. The gearstick has a bend to bring it forward far enough to change gears. The passengers seat is further back and offset slightly so I dont elbow the passenger in the arm when changing gears!So... I can see it definately can be done. The only problem I could forsee is heat, hopefully there is enough insulation to keep the heat of the Turbo out of the passengers compartment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomchic Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be..... Lifetime Members 14,092 Member For: 20y 3m 21d Gender: Female Location: Noosa QLD Posted 19/09/05 04:07 AM Share Posted 19/09/05 04:07 AM WOW that's out there!!!shazzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xr6 typhoon Good for nothing member Donating Members 619 Member For: 20y 6m 8d Location: Sydney Posted 19/09/05 04:16 AM Share Posted 19/09/05 04:16 AM reminds me of the focus in the states that hade the 351 in it. there was a thread on it in here a while back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jEtONiT Donating Members 1,817 Member For: 21y 1m 26d Gender: Not Telling Location: next door.. Posted 19/09/05 06:11 AM Share Posted 19/09/05 06:11 AM that's bloody awesome.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.S.I Member 229 Member For: 21y 7m 22d Location: sydney Posted 20/09/05 03:31 AM Share Posted 20/09/05 03:31 AM Is the proposed driver related to Rod Millen of Pikes Peak Hill Climb fame ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrav8 Member 1,969 Member For: 19y 9m 9d Gender: Male Location: New Zealand Posted 20/09/05 03:38 AM Author Share Posted 20/09/05 03:38 AM Yes - his son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Forum Superhero Donating Members 3,109 Member For: 21y 1m 6d Location: Eastern Suburbs of Mexico Posted 20/09/05 06:38 AM Share Posted 20/09/05 06:38 AM You can see that alot of work has gone into constructing that car. If you look closely it's very similar to supercar spec build. At the front nust behind the suspension mounts you can see where the roll cage comes through. Basically they have built a rollcage then built the shell around that.I'm tipping the position of the engine combined with the gearbox will be mounted exactly central to the car, which in terms of weight distribution would be close to perfect eg like a ferrari but back to front, if you get my drift. Handling from that perspective must be awesome.Must be fantastic to race, a real credit to whoever had the enginering forsyth to come up with that idea. Bloody Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon Member 141 Member For: 21y 3m 7d Gender: Male Location: Geelong, VIC, Australia Posted 20/09/05 09:54 AM Share Posted 20/09/05 09:54 AM Oh man that's awesome!! It looks like that cars just swallowed an XR6T engine pill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theeone Member 349 Member For: 21y 7m 14d Location: Hoddles Creek (VIC) Posted 20/09/05 11:31 AM Share Posted 20/09/05 11:31 AM MENTAL!!!I think it might smoke the Windsor powered jigga, xr6 typhoon that Windsor powered one was a ZX 351, I think that's what they called it.The only other thing it would need would be AWD, then put NIZPRO's donk in and go chase down that Dahlback Golf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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