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[F1 Mini]

Well I did a silly thing last night, had a load of mates round etc, and they have convinced me to keep the second Hayabusa engine and put it in the front.

So looks like it's now going to be a 4WD Twin Engined Twin Turboed "Mini Busa 2".

Now if I spent the extra on the Bigger turbo Kits (thats andother £1200 on top)
they can get the Engines upto 450BHP EACH... So Thats -

900 BHP in a Mini Wieghting 700 KGS that's 1286BHP Per Ton

Now Shueys F1 Fesser is only 920bhp in a Wieght of 800kgs so thats 1150BHP Per Ton

Whens the next GP ......

[CharlieBrown]

Make sure you put wings on it because that little baby will fly!!!!!!!!

[F1 Mini]

I expected a few more replies than that... Oh dear what's the date.....

[F1 Mini]

But saying that it is Possable.... HUMMMM :cheese: :cheese:

[CharlieBrown]

Ha ha ha, im splitting my sides :saywhat:

[Brawlyrox]

one word LUNATIC but ya gotta love it :tongue:

w00t

[Alburglar]

Or you could use the current twin engine kit that z-cars do. He's swallowed the cost of all the trial and error for you.

But I sense that you want to do totally your own thing. Remember the budget! LOL

Are you gonna build a space frame for the front, that will hold the engine/drivetrain and suspension.

Where will the exhaust go? :gasp:

[F1 Mini]

Carful Charlie, don't want a claim made against me by your wife, for killing you with laughter....

[CharlieBrown]

Wife?? not yet.

Should have know id get caught out today.

Should read things properly

[Alburglar]

Take a look at this site for a bit of inspiration for tube steel front section
http://www.users.glo...r_subframes.htm

[F1 Mini]

WOW now thats ducking lovly...... Have emailed the Gent to see if he knows the owner of that jig, etc. Sod the buget if I could end up with one of them.
Does anyone else know about any other sights like that ?

[KC-SWO]

I have been thinking up a similar mini plan for over 1 year.

2 bike engines, 1 front, 1 rear, 4 wheel drive.......

I think the 4x4 aspect introduces its own issues though.
1 motor with 4x4 would make it easier to put the power down without going too big on wheel/tire size.
In order to use 2 motors they would have to be linked to properly put the power down. Otherwise the front tires could spin, redlining the front engine, while the rear tires bite, and the rear engine takes seconds to accelerate the car.

I was waiting until I found my own Mini donor car to measure to see if it would be better to have 1 motor up front, and 1 rear, or both in the rear like the Z-Cars setup. 1 front, 1 rear seems like it would make the car easier to get 50:50 weight bias. But there doesn't look like that much room up front, especially engine height. Since I am a tall person at 6'5" I was thinking that I could extend the foot well to get more leg room if the engine(s) were in the rear.

[Al*]

thats going to be amazing!!! keep us posted and when do you recon you'll be done.

Al

[TimS]

that a great new idea! and will easily be the most powerfull mini in the world! uv got the experties to do it, if uc got the money and time then go for it!

[1976 clubamn]

thought you where mad with just the one busa. now a second one? oh my god mate what a master piece that will be.

could be cool to put it on the M1 at about 3 or 4 in the morning. WOW.

good luck with it.