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SAL
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5th Dec 08 at 19:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ok, so the discusion between me and a few mate's led us to belive it can be done And it would not be any harder than doing a c20let rear wheel drive Can people please post link's of car's that have had the engine's put into the boot need to have a look through how BeArDy has mounted his aswell. Im sure there is a company in the uk who make weld in space frame's for saxo's etc ?
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yeah there is a company, they did a k20 (civic type r) into the back of a saxo a few years back, as with anything, with enough money, anythings possible
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Be nice to see how they have been doing it
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easier mounting it in the front and using escort running gear and suspension like austinpxx did
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Mounting it in the front would be load's of extra work to make it RWD
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be mental and 4wd it, if you think you could get it in the front, the props gonna have to go that way anyway!
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beardy's is all space framed at the back...
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Z cars is who u want stavs. Iv seen a saxo and a couple of minis they done
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is that the people that do RWD rear engine conversions from £4000 or something, you can have a bike engine in your corsa if you want.

[Edited on 05-12-2008 by sand-eel]
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quote:
Originally posted by Stavs
Mounting it in the front would be load's of extra work to make it RWD


front engined =

more usable
easier and more well known fabircation
easier off the shelf parts
handle better
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quote:
Originally posted by Baskey
Z cars is who u want stavs. Iv seen a saxo and a couple of minis they done


but they are off the shelf kits, deveoping a corsa one wont be cheap
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get it built for PV i want to race you with my corsa


z-cars, JMA, berrisford...look at autograss companies


btw when i spoke to JMA who built beardys i think they said you'd be looking at £10k, thats to get it rolling with engine etc fitted up

[Edited on 05-12-2008 by philip2]
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speak to daveyLC about mid engined fwd hatchbacks
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i've defo seen a company that does novas, corsas, saxo and they actually had the price list.
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did beardy not team up with some of this companies who do rear mounted conversions to do his??

engine in the front would lose alot of power at the wheels from the fwheel? transmission loss.

rear mounted would be much cooler lol
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it wouldn't lose that much power, just like any other FERWD car.
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quote:
Originally posted by STEvieXE
did beardy not team up with some of this companies who do rear mounted conversions to do his??

engine in the front would lose alot of power at the wheels from the fwheel? transmission loss.

rear mounted would be much cooler lol


RWD will not have more transmission losses than FWD ?
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what gearbox and diff would you use? you can get sierra bellhousing adapter plates and prob just use a sierra diff as well.
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don't suppose an omega box would fit? from a 2 litre one.
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rear mounted would be much cooler lol


look out next year then


you could possibly use a type 9 box with bellhousing with seirra back axle/subframe like the tiger kit cars.

you can also buy a mounting kit to weld in for the engine mounts.

ive had a go in an evo6 powered m3 fiesta the other week, that was running m3 spd on a fully built atlas back axle
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use a vaux t t5 bellhousing adapter, t5 box, reco-prop custom prop and mk2 escort diff, or use a caterham rear diff and diff hanger, hubs etc


apart from people going "wow, a engine in the back" it offers more disadvantages than anything else IMO
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you could use the omega box, but easier to use the ford box/back end, easier/cheaper to get parts for, and could probably use the sierra front struts too, and build it wide arched, maybe using the a.g.motorsport kit???


you can get a mid engined car to handle pretty well, so no real disadvantage imo. just if goign mid engined then your problems are using struts/subframe from the front of a car

[Edited on 05-12-2008 by philip2]
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
don't suppose an omega box would fit? from a 2 litre one.


yep, i would use a2.3 saab turbo, omega box

more performance and about £4000 less cost than an LEH
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wheres ste l with austins nova pics when you need him
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chip off migweb and has a rear engined nova let iirc

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