RE: Wildcat V10 In The Works

[dax turbo]

I'd love nothing more than cars like these to be a success. I just don't get why the car has been designed with a live axle...cost?

[JimexPL]

I seem to recall that you have the option of a live axle or independant. The car mentioned has been built for an American muscle car fan, and as such has a live rear axle.

[RT/10Dave]

The Article said:

According to our hosts, the Viper engine is a standard 8.4-litre ‘crate’ engine supplied from the US making 600bhp and with the standard Tremec TR6060 6-speed manual gearbox. We’ve not heard any performance predictions just yet, but as the Wildcat is roughly two thirds of the weight of the 1500kgs Viper we can confidently predict the V10 Wildcat will go like stink!

Errrr.... No, as was mentioned earlier, that is definitley a GenI 8.0Litre 450BHP engine... Definitely not the new 8.4litre 600BHP

[the_lone_wolf]

Was I the only person hoping it was a Bowler Wildcat?

[RT/10Dave]

the_lone_wolf said:

Was I the only person hoping it was a Bowler Wildcat?

Nope... I was too...

[rev-erend]

That chassis looks very low tech.

Reminds me of the very 2 dimemsional efforts of the Cobra kit car builders of the 1980's.. but I'd like to see the whole chassis.

[Engineer1]

As a chassis that looks more like a jig than a chassis, or am I being a little unfair? having said that it could be a mock up for clearances etc.

[Miguel]

Article said:

We’re still waiting for a Wildcat powered by Al Melling’s recently announced ‘redevelopment’ of the AJP V8 he originally designed for TVR, but the Viper V10 does have a Melling heritage all of its own. It was the Melling design consultancy that first reworked Chrysler’s cast iron V10 truck engine in aluminium for (then Chrysler-owned) Lamborghini. The Melling engine had four valves per cylinder but was never used by the Italian manufacturer. Sadly, when Chrysler decided to use the engine in the Viper the corporate bean counters axed the Melling designed valvetrain in favour of a simpler two valve per cylinder set-up.

I do remember reading back then that Lamborghini reworked the all-iron truck V10 engine into the higher output, all-aluminum Viper V10 unit since, as the article stated, Lamborghini was owned by Chrysler at the time. The article states that Melling did the four-valve version for Lamborghini. Well, they did that for Chrysler, no? So you're saying that Chrysler commissioned Lamborghini who had obvious experience with high-performance multi-cylinder engines, and Lamborghini passed the buck to Melling? Or was it a joint effort between Lamborghini and Melling? I don't undestand. BTW I do remember back then seeing a photograph taken at the Lamborghini factory, showing several engine parts, including a crankshaft with five throws, which must've been for a Viper engine, since this was many years before Lambo made a V10 of their own.

Miguel

[Green Montego]

Anyone who has been to the factory and seen Al's collection may start to understand the secret history that he has had. This includes the chrysler v10, the jaguar v12, Lola v10 F1 to name a couple. He didn't make his millions by making TVR V8s and sixes.

[deevlash]

Green Montego said:

Anyone who has been to the factory and seen Al's collection may start to understand the secret history that he has had. This includes the chrysler v10, the jaguar v12, Lola v10 F1 to name a couple. He didn't make his millions by making TVR V8s and sixes.

whatever happened to the norton?

[njohnson]

Did a quick photoshop fixing those awful wheels and the rideheight which i think is too high.