old round fart
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Every time somebody asks about IRS or coil-over shocks on here, I always reply "buckets need cross spring and dropped axle. Well, I found a website that has made me rethink that opinion. For years I have been looking at a Locost USA. It is a site focused on a book published years ago about building a car similar to the old Lotus Super seven. Basically it is a space tube frame using foreign car brakes and hand built IRS. The Brutan Super Stalker was a V-8 off shoot of the same car.
This new version uses a front wheel drive engine and trans driving the rear wheels with 4 wheel independent
suspension. The prototype weighs 1465 pounds with a turbo Honda making 420 h.p. Think about a motor that gets 35 MPG (in stock form) in a car that weighs over twice this car weighs. Mileage, power to weight, foot and passenger room improvement, not the same old SBC, What's not to like?
The website is "midlana.com". The car looks mike this:
This new version uses a front wheel drive engine and trans driving the rear wheels with 4 wheel independent
suspension. The prototype weighs 1465 pounds with a turbo Honda making 420 h.p. Think about a motor that gets 35 MPG (in stock form) in a car that weighs over twice this car weighs. Mileage, power to weight, foot and passenger room improvement, not the same old SBC, What's not to like?
The website is "midlana.com". The car looks mike this: