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porsche engines?
02GF74 - 21/7/06 at 01:00 PM

anyone using one? or not locost enough.

Or is rear drive the problem for mating to a gearbox.


I would have thought a flat 4 or 6 in the front would do wongers for CoG but then what do I know......

iank - 21/7/06 at 01:07 PM

The 6 cylinder boxers are probably too wide for a 7.

Possible for a middy with gearbox mods to turn them round the 'proper' way (straightforward allegedly).

Turning the engine round might make them rotate the wrong way for a normal FWD gearbox, but I'm not sure which way they rotate so I couldn't be sure - someone will be along soon to let us all know

NS Dev - 21/7/06 at 02:59 PM

flat 6 porsche engines cost a FORTUNE!!

trust me I have looked for a long time at using one in the back of a grasser!

Ideal engine but £3000 for a fairly crap one is too much money!

apex - 21/7/06 at 03:19 PM

A Subaru engine with turbo.....

Alan_Thomas - 21/7/06 at 03:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank

Turning the engine round might make them rotate the wrong way for a normal FWD gearbox, but I'm not sure which way they rotate so I couldn't be sure - someone will be along soon to let us all know


This takes me back - When I was a student many years ago I helped a friend change the transaxle in his beetle. The only transaxle we could get came from a VW van. The guy assured us that all we had to do was remove the 'reduction boxes' from the ends of each halfshaft and replace them with our back plates and drums from the old unit. No problem doing that and after a about a day and a half every thing was back together.

Start the engine, select reverse and bang we hit the front garage wall. Running perfectly 1 forward and 4 reverse gears!

The reduction boxes reversed the drive and in a van box they build the crownwheel on the other side of the diff

John Bonnett - 21/7/06 at 05:51 PM

Probably missing the point here but a 944 Turbo develops 250 horse power and is front engine with transaxle. How about that for weight distribution. Although I used to own one I have no idea whether the bits would go into a Locost but they are a reasonable price (well the non turbo ones are anyway)

John

zetec7 - 21/7/06 at 08:49 PM

There's a fellow bulding a 7 using 924 running gear on the US Locost Builder's site. I have a 944 myself, and wwould have thought the engines to be too high, but then they are leaned over a fair bit in the original car, so it might fit. As far as the transaxle is concerned, it also contains the IRS, so that is something else taken care of. However, they are designe to use a "torque tube" to join the engine and transaxle together solidly, with a driveshaft running inside it - that would have to be engineered. But, it has been done!!

Mark Allanson - 21/7/06 at 08:55 PM

The 924 2.0 engine is basically the VW LT28 engine, I would have thought there would be a strong possibility that the LT gearbox could be adapted to fit (or may just fit without mods)