205 Shell, what to do?
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I thought a mid mounted Subaru flat four of some description would be pretty cool. You can have as much or as little power as you want with those. It could be rear drive and would have great weight distribution and a really low centre of gravity so it should handle pretty well. If you were feeling particularly silly you could fit one of their flat 6 engines in there or maybe even think about a Porsche engine.
Mid-engined with as light a bodyshell and powertrain as you can manage. Hayabusa engine, a weld-in cage and as you're a proficient welder you could think about spaceframing the front end if it's worth it for the weight loss.
If you build it to the MSA Blue Book regs you could have a decent sprint and hillclimb car.
If you build it to the MSA Blue Book regs you could have a decent sprint and hillclimb car.
You could run a PSA XU engine in RWD configuration, by mating it to a LDV bellhousing.
Believe they mate to Audi and Porsche gearboxes too, so a rear mounted transaxle mounted to the beam might be an idea, like the 944s and 924s used to have
Maybe this sounds more terrible sober though
Believe they mate to Audi and Porsche gearboxes too, so a rear mounted transaxle mounted to the beam might be an idea, like the 944s and 924s used to have
Maybe this sounds more terrible sober though
Coldfuse said:
S2000 engine.
I was thinking along the same lines at first but a civic or integra set up in the rear end would be interesting, better still leave it alone and sell the whole thing on to someone who isn't going to butcher an increasingly rare decent 205 shell, you don't see that many 205's now and those are mostly total heaps apart from the relatively few well looked after enthusiasts GTI's As much as a GTi is worth a few bob, a TD shell with 175k on the clock is not.
I bought it for £350 and i'll make a chunk of that back selling off parts i'm not using.
Pretty convinced i can go down the Mr2 clip rear to give me a base to work off. There's not masses of space behind the seats so it's going to have to be transverse.
If i space frame the whole rear then i'd choose double wishbones for the rear and i could fit something longitudinaly mounted. By that stage i'd be as well jacking it in and buying a VX220 to fit the V8.
Off to find a Mk2 Mr2 i can cut the rear out of!
I bought it for £350 and i'll make a chunk of that back selling off parts i'm not using.
Pretty convinced i can go down the Mr2 clip rear to give me a base to work off. There's not masses of space behind the seats so it's going to have to be transverse.
If i space frame the whole rear then i'd choose double wishbones for the rear and i could fit something longitudinaly mounted. By that stage i'd be as well jacking it in and buying a VX220 to fit the V8.
Off to find a Mk2 Mr2 i can cut the rear out of!
Did some measuring this afternoon.
So thats 1150mm rear panel to rear of the tape reel.
1100mm between wheel wells.
The rubber gromit is 660mm from the rear.
Why those dimensions? Well it just so happens thats the length of an Audi v8 plus ob1 gearbox I have sat in the garage. Driveshafts would just about line up but not running straight, which is good.
So my thoughts are now turning to put an a8 subframe, struts and towers in the rear. Engine and box would sit in them and just need grafted to the shell.
Sounds easy eh?
So thats 1150mm rear panel to rear of the tape reel.
1100mm between wheel wells.
The rubber gromit is 660mm from the rear.
Why those dimensions? Well it just so happens thats the length of an Audi v8 plus ob1 gearbox I have sat in the garage. Driveshafts would just about line up but not running straight, which is good.
So my thoughts are now turning to put an a8 subframe, struts and towers in the rear. Engine and box would sit in them and just need grafted to the shell.
Sounds easy eh?
Edited by OlberJ on Sunday 22 September 17:37
Edited by OlberJ on Sunday 22 September 17:37
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