Aerodynamics of a bug

[spannermanager]

Hi Graham, I would look at Ricolas layout, he made up new horns to suit a G 50, but to answer your question, unless it's a race only car, and running at circuit type ride height, ie, 40mm, raising the t/tube isn't strictly required, what it does is allows the car to run lower with good trailing arm angles for effective launching/traction, on the other hand, a powerful motor needs as straight a driveshaft alignment as you can get, so a gearbox raise is required in any case, removing the horns completely requires either a very strong mid mounted yoke set up, noisey for a road car, or a Porsche type rear engine support bar with lots of body/apron strengthening to hold the weight of motor, trans, and control the dynamics of driving forces on the supports, my racer uses a mid mount yoke, as I originally planned to loose The horns, I even tested with the end bolts removed with no problems, but they got a reprieve for packaging and mounting other stuff off them reasons, race only cars are easy, less compromises than a road car has, more for you to consider.

[Wally]

Originally Posted by spannermanager

Hi.., race only cars are easy, less compromises than a road car has, more for you to consider.

Aint that the truth!

[graham]

Here we go again…

Thanks for the response Spanner.I was going to base the g50 install on what Ricola has done around the frame horn area. He has raised the box and moved it forward at the same time and built a cradle/engine mount and new frame horns.However he uses a combo of torsion bars and coil overs.I was wondering wether to get rid of the torsion tube completely as I will be using the uniball set up and just coilovers with no torsion bars.What do you think ??