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| posted on May 10th, 2004 at 11:48 PM |
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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.
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 02:41 AM |
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Anything can be done with wrx motors just need to look outside the square and listen to the right people and learn eg John Van Looks RACECAR it needs still some fine tunining lookout when its tuned Vw54 Racer
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Been considering tonight the advantages of using a WRX motor.
Your mission (aircooled boys) is to convince me otherwise 
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 06:39 AM |
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Been considering tonight the advantages of using a WRX motor.
Your mission (aircooled boys) is to convince me otherwise
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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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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 10:27 AM |
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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.
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tunscan steel rods, I've never heard of these, what do they do, look like, etc..?
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 10:34 AM |
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I think it's supposed to say tungsten
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 12:17 PM |
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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.
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 06:23 PM |
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| Quote: | 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.
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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.
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 06:30 PM |
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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) 
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| posted on May 11th, 2004 at 09:23 PM |
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Gentlemen Tungsten is very costly and takes alot of hard work to shape and to put in the right places of the car.It always best to bring forward the motor no matter what.John Van Looks is a good eg of how to do it this is not for the backyardie.
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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)
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