All Porsches have rear engines - right?
04-27-2004, 04:34 PM
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04-27-2004, 07:14 PM
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I thought it was the flux capacitor.
04-28-2004, 12:00 PM
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What's really amazing is that the toy company and all the engineers who worked on designing the toy, the castings, the paint, the assembly specs. etc. etc, not one of them seemed to know that this was wrong...What's the world coming to? - Ruf
04-28-2004, 03:41 PM
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Nicole,
Interesting model, whether it was an error, or somebody just playing fast and loose with design.
Kind of a fun idea, to do one rear-midengine.
There would probably be some benefit to handling because of the mass centralization. There would probably be a counterbalancing loss due to the fact that the mass would be sitting up much higher in the frame (just thinking out loud here).
You could also then easily do a laydown radiator upfront, move the gas tank up there, and put the ancillaries (a/c, alt, p/s, etc) in the front compartment as well, and drive them all with a hydraulic PTO set-up (cheaper and easier than running a shaft up there).
I guess the problem would be to get all, or at least most, of the powerplant infront of the rear axle line, would take the front of the engine within an inch or two of the seatback. Hopefully, the buyer would not be tall.
I guess you could do a transverse mounting, then use a modified old GM fwd transaxle setup...
Greg
Interesting model, whether it was an error, or somebody just playing fast and loose with design.
Kind of a fun idea, to do one rear-midengine.
There would probably be some benefit to handling because of the mass centralization. There would probably be a counterbalancing loss due to the fact that the mass would be sitting up much higher in the frame (just thinking out loud here).
You could also then easily do a laydown radiator upfront, move the gas tank up there, and put the ancillaries (a/c, alt, p/s, etc) in the front compartment as well, and drive them all with a hydraulic PTO set-up (cheaper and easier than running a shaft up there).
I guess the problem would be to get all, or at least most, of the powerplant infront of the rear axle line, would take the front of the engine within an inch or two of the seatback. Hopefully, the buyer would not be tall.
I guess you could do a transverse mounting, then use a modified old GM fwd transaxle setup...
Greg
04-28-2004, 04:00 PM
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MAN!!!
those widebody kits are very complete...
BTW:
Guys, i KNOW what is in the rear of the model car...
That thing is the new aircraft radar-laser-lidar-pulsar jammer. You can never have enough protection against highway patrol
those widebody kits are very complete...
BTW:
Guys, i KNOW what is in the rear of the model car...
That thing is the new aircraft radar-laser-lidar-pulsar jammer. You can never have enough protection against highway patrol
