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| Comments: 7 (Read/Post) Favorites: 0 (View) |
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on: 11-05-2002
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11-05-2002 @ 10:26:52 AM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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This peculiar car was powered by four 110hp two-stroke Rotex engines. Power was pooled in some way far too complex for me to understand, and then sent to each wheel. It was an interesting concept, but they never managed to get it working quite right. It tested at Laguna Seca but never raced.
Author Peter Lyons described the sound of it as "a barroom brawl fought with chainsaws."
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11-05-2002 @ 10:29:04 AM |
| Posted By : mr_mcmunkee |
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I'd rather have ONE 600 hp engine as opposed to four 110 hp engines. What's the point? Equal weight distribution, they can't be a weight savings?
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11-05-2002 @ 10:30:02 AM |
| Posted By : Jurrell |
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Its like having 4 civic engines, coolness!!
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11-05-2002 @ 10:30:20 AM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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While this may sound very much like something the Japanese would do (the driver was even a Japanese man, Hiroshi Matsushita), the builder was actually an English ex-Shelby American employee, Jack Hoare.
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11-05-2002 @ 10:32:01 AM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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#2, Actually, the car was rather lighter and smaller than the typical big-block Can-Am car (although not so much so as to overcome the power deficit). The main factor, though, was cost. They were basically stock two-strokes -- much, much cheaper than 8-liter aluminum V8s.
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