Hey there! I'm thinking of building a LoCost but i'm having some doubts about the possibility of installing the engine in the rear. i searched around and i didn't found any project like this. is it impossible? will it ruin the wheight balance? Since it's a Honda 1.6 vtec turbo engine there's no gearbox for an rwd, that's why i thought of installing the engine in the rear. THanks.

look into the "mid-engine" section. orient the engine just as it is, now, in the Honda, but behind the seats.

more to it than that, of course, but you get the idea.

dave

why not mate it to a different gearbox?

Slap it in a Furore chassis!

Or just buy my car and swap the engine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aha but would that make it a rear or mid engine setup?? ............


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[Edited on 21-12-06 by RazMan]

Both !
A mid engine is determined as being in between the wheel base. My engine is in front of the rear wheels but at the rear.

so that rear mid engined rather than the book car which is front mid engined and then i wonder has anyone ever made a car were the engine is truely in the middle of the car

Do a seark on google for dpcars.
He has the closest you will get to a mid engine setup that you will ever get.