[Vwdiesel] project car

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Why you shouldn`t do this?  Lemme see.  It is a car.  Waste of time and 
money.  Put your fabrication efforts and financial resources into an off 
grid power generator system, a cache of fuel and bullets and have a fighting 
chance for life after TSHTF.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Hansen" <jhsg at sasktel.net>
To: <Vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:34 AM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] project car


> Just thinking out loud so to speak.
> I would value some opinions.
>
> I've recently discovered a car called the ariel atom.
> there's a youtube video that is reasonably impressive, even if it's
> mostly showing head shots of the dumbass test driver with no lid or
> visor , just wearing sunglasses that are most likely a glass lens that
> would remove the eye should a pebble hit at speed.
>
> 500kg, 300hp supercharged vtec.  It's stupid scary fast, looks like fun.
> Now the manufacturer makes it all available as a kit-ish car in the USA
> from what I can understand so far, but it's really just a go-cart/sand
> rail dune buggy with a good motor, designed with proper suspension, and
> really, a little overpriced for what you get. It's open, really open.
>
> I've looked at it a lot, salivated, and wondered just how useful it
> would be to stick a TDI in it. At 49k usd I can do a lot of fabricating.
>
>
> I can build the chassis, no trouble. There are powertrains out there
> easy enough to get, heck, yard the one out of the Jetta for that matter
> :-) Control arms, stuff like that is readily available, suspension
> geometry isn't even that hard, I have a couple programs to figure out
> spring rates and the like...
>
> I really want to build this silly thing.  I been lusting after a cobra
> kit, but this looks like it has waaay more fun potential, and is a dry
> and warm weather car too.
>
> Stock, it has an i-Vtec honda with a civicS gearbox.  Anyone know
> weights of this stuff, and how it will compare to a TDI with a standard
> gearbox?
>
> The 300hp factory version makes 250ftlb
> I'm thinking a massaged tdi should carry it along nicely, but would need
> waaay taller gears a clutch, and a torsen differential.
> hmmm.
> I can build a nice reliable tdi that gets 150hp with 250ft-lb torque.
>
> Tell me why I shouldn't do this.
> :-)
> -James
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