WRX motor

gayanne Officially Full-On Dubber

307 posts · joined May 2004 · 10 May 2004, 11:48 pm

#172384

Alex you are on the ball with weight ,but with very light cars you can use tunscan steel rods for weight balance to compensate for moving weight around if useing heavier motors.

gayanne Officially Full-On Dubber

307 posts · joined May 2004 · 11 May 2004, 2:41 am

#172414

Cam wrote:Been considering tonight the advantages of using a WRX motor.

Your mission (aircooled boys) is to convince me otherwise 😉

MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 11 May 2004, 6:39 am

#172426

Cam wrote:Been considering tonight the advantages of using a WRX motor.

Your mission (aircooled boys) is to convince me otherwise 😉

JUST DO IT....Apart from the radiator thingy...if I was to spend all that $$$$ again I would DEFINETLY go the Jap way. Just a lot less hassels and cheaper 🙂:bounce

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Cam Custom Title Time!

1,535 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 May 2004, 10:27 am

#172487

gayanne wrote:Alex you are on the ball with weight ,but with very light cars you can use tunscan steel rods for weight balance to compensate for moving weight around if useing heavier motors.

tunscan steel rods, I've never heard of these, what do they do, look like, etc..?

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 11 May 2004, 10:34 am

#172490

I think it's supposed to say tungsten

gayanne Officially Full-On Dubber

307 posts · joined May 2004 · 11 May 2004, 12:17 pm

#172519

Peter Leonard Moderator Volatile

1,456 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 11 May 2004, 6:23 pm

#172673

Sorry boys I did spell tungsten wrong in Alex comment . Tungsten in dictionary terms is steel grey metallic with very high melting-point. What this means you can shape to fit anywhere in side a car for balance F1 use it when under weight.

so you're saying you use the weight of the tungsten steel rods to counterbalance the engine? sounds like adding more weight to me... otherwise bracing it sounds a tad complicated and beyond the average backyard basher.
:alien

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Cam Custom Title Time!

1,535 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 May 2004, 6:30 pm

#172675

Yeah, I can't imagine how that would aid the balance? The only thing I can picture is suspending the motor from some forward mounting point, but then I think it would pull the rest of the car up (balance forced to tip backwards even more savagely) on power down?

BTW, welcome to the forum gayanne, good to have another go-faster on board (pardon the pun) 😎

gayanne Officially Full-On Dubber

307 posts · joined May 2004 · 11 May 2004, 9:23 pm

#172773

Cam wrote:Yeah, I can't imagine how that would aid the balance? The only thing I can picture is suspending the motor from some forward mounting point, but then I think it would pull the rest of the car up (balance forced to tip backwards even more savagely) on power down?

BTW, welcome to the forum gayanne, good to have another go-faster on board (pardon the pun) 😎