Twin engined cars.

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Mr Dave

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3,233 posts

195 months

Saturday 3rd July 2010
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PhillipM said:
Mr Dave said:
Want even more power? Then you didn't fit a big enough engine or turbo
Fixed.
Or the right amount of engines or turbos. wink

CraigyMc

16,387 posts

236 months

Saturday 3rd July 2010
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Mr Dave said:
Or the right amount of engines or turbos. wink
How many engines do the car manufacturers put in their cars? Even their fastest ones?

Exactly.

Moving on...

GavinPearson

5,715 posts

251 months

Saturday 3rd July 2010
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Max_Torque said:
a mate said "that car looks like it should be mid engined rwd, so i made it mid engined rwd !!
Was the mate Liam with the TR7 engined Dolomite?????

Mr Dave

Original Poster:

3,233 posts

195 months

Saturday 3rd July 2010
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CraigyMc said:
Mr Dave said:
Or the right amount of engines or turbos. wink
How many engines do the car manufacturers put in their cars? Even their fastest ones?

Exactly.

Moving on...
Penny pinching gone too far I say.

fatbutt

2,649 posts

264 months

Sunday 27th May 2018
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Holy thread resurrection!

Okay, so how about this:

2 x hyabusa engines c/w cooling system, harness, etc. common throttle
1 x 'linking' differential where the output drive shafts are used as the input shafts for each engine
1 x rear differential that takes the output shaft of the linking differential as input and outputs to each rear wheel as per normal

The linking differential is there to handle the differences between the speed of each engine.

Mount the arrangement so the weight is mid. Use something like a Mk3 MR2 as the basis.

Cheap 8 cylinder engine with 300+ HP that rev's to 10K+ RPM.

I know its a simplistic high level summary but the principle, in my mind at least, is sound surely?

F1natic

458 posts

56 months

Monday 4th May 2020
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Or you could do it this way...https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1827105