http://www.zcars.org.uk/univkit.php anyone seen this ? fit a bike engine into the back of mini/golf amazing
Anyone know how being "universal" you get track width changes sorted without big spacers? If I remember rightly I saw it was designed on a mk3 ibiza
on the minis they had long trailing arms on the back and it was hard to drive, hopefully he's changed the geometry for the better
The pivot angles of the trailing arms could be more. The nearer the pivot axis are to parallel/inline with each other, the worse - for camber change through roll changes. Edit, Id go as far as saying, that thats trailing arm, and not semi trail, as it should be for full effect. Found a link that should explain my ramblings a bit better, http://www.ukcar.com/features/tech/suspension/trailingarm.htm I could also never understand why they re made the ibiza(Rally, WRC?) rear beam, splitting it in the middle to pivot like the picture. I know they had to keep with factory mounting, but i feel it was a bad idea.
holy crap i`m working for the wrong people, granted theres a lot of design to be done a few jigs maybe but 6k to go rear wheel drive. sack that, besides theres far easier ways than that^ looks tidy though
can't even see a jig on any of the factory shots, which doesn't bode well If you are starting from scratch with a race inspired rear frame, surely some long double wishbones and nifty pushrods with rising rate would be the first port of call there is a nice frame that fits a R1 engine in the front of a stock roundnose mini and uses original mounts
For the work involved you may aswell just do what I've done and use a VW front setup in the rear, it'd cost you about 5900 less
Having spoke to the guy at Inters last year, the frame/cradle is universal, but the rear suspension set-up/geometry is bespoke depending on application/customers requirements. In my picture above you can see the trailings arms look a bit unwieldy, and when questioned as to whether he`d considered a tubular solution with loads of adjustment, he basically said that he could build whatever you wanted to whatever design.
If you look in the gallery I see JBS managed to get their logo on it, so wonder how much involvement they had? Also the car they used in the gallery was a mk4 golf
They were in the JBS marquee at Inters, so some sort of tie-in I guess. The kit in my picture was for a Mk4.
