Spotted: 3-wheel Chevy Cavalier streamliner (pics)

[Frank Lee]

Trikes need the light end to be the one with the single wheel. Car-based trike conversions still have too much weight in the rear until the gas tank is relocated forward and/or the rear wheel is well back from the stock wheelbase.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Trikes need the light end to be the one with the single wheel.

Sure, but in certain cases it can occasionally become too light if the weight balance is not properly calculated. Back here there were some accidents with Volkswagen-based tricycles in the 80s for that reason. Currently there are still a few tricycles with Volkswagen powertrain available brand-new, but the frames have a better weight balance and, altough the weight is more concentrated close to the axle with 2 wheels, it's now more to the wheelbase than to the overhang.

[UltArc]

Originally Posted by Xist

Spinners are downright silly...

Maybe not. I'm not a master of aerodynamics, but I imagined air coming around the car hitting the moving rim caused turbulence, or increase drag (or both?). If the rim of the wheel is not rotating, could that work almost like wheel cover?

I was thinking a spinner could be the perfect starting point for pizza pans- just replace the spinny gaudy thing with a pizza pan. It may spin, but if it's secure and not rubbing/dangerous, there shouldn't be much of an issue. Or they could be secured to the base.

No scientific data behind the aero efficiency of spinners, lol, just thinking if nothing was making them spin, and a little weight on the bottom of one part of the rim, it could work.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by UltArc

Maybe not. I'm not a master of aerodynamics, but I imagined air coming around the car hitting the moving rim caused turbulence, or increase drag (or both?). If the rim of the wheel is not rotating, could that work almost like wheel cover?

I was thinking a spinner could be the perfect starting point for pizza pans- just replace the spinny gaudy thing with a pizza pan. It may spin, but if it's secure and not rubbing/dangerous, there shouldn't be much of an issue. Or they could be secured to the base.

No scientific data behind the aero efficiency of spinners, lol, just thinking if nothing was making them spin, and a little weight on the bottom of one part of the rim, it could work.

I believe that you are describing "Floatees."