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Originally Posted by freebeard
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I thought about 1/2 a drop tank with a skirt, but it just wouldn't look as right, and with this the geodesic origins can be hidden behind WWI German aircraft hexagonal camo.
It would be a sandwich with top and bottom halves to the shell with a plate of 1/4"carbon fiber or 1" foamed aluminum with the chrome-moly roll cage and suspension pickup points on it sandwiched in between.
It was supposed to have a very efficient 36hp VW engine in front. The blunt nose would mean that the cylinders would be recessed into nostrils—a 10:1 blister inverted into the surface. But today I'm all excited about the Protean Direct Drive in-hub motors. Two of these in the tandem truck in back and you wouldn't need the front engine.
The people that know open wheels are the bicyclists. I believe the trick is flat carbon fiber spokes instead of round wires.
Oh, and I meant dry-sumped engine. |
If you're going to race it they may want 1/8th-inch wall,mild steel tubing.Inch and a half or larger diameter.I think it's in the SCTA rulebook,but you'd want to check.