Twin engine 4wd 5th gen

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun May 24, 2015 8:41 pm

i think thats great i wanted to do that i even spoke to ted about it

Dennis van dijk · Post by **Dennis van dijk** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:31 pm

Turbomick1985 wrote:It was a school project, isn't there a German tuning crowd that do a golf like this with an engine in the front and one in the back, yea the auto box can't be much fun

I know witch one you mean

But it wasn t a golf

I was a opel corsa with 2 2.0 16v turbo engines

Car has uk plates because of the german tuv didn't give the registration

Check on boostbeast and you find this car

Lude with 2 engines look nice

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:32 pm

lucas wrote:What a waste of money in my opinion :/

this is going to such a heavy car and won't handle or pull for jobby lol.

Pointless beyond words

Heavier yes, but traction on both ends, pretty much 50/50 weight distribution and now each engine is shifting half the weight of a standard Prelude.

It'd take some work to get it sync'd perfectly, and some getting used to driving it, but I say amazing!

I'm not a fan of the side vents, but understand their purpose and the whole thing is so well done.

Hat off to them

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:43 pm

dont really need to sync the engines looked into it

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Mon May 25, 2015 12:00 am

That is really well done, other than the bad boy hood on there.

The engines don't need to be perfectly synced, but they have to be relatively close because you'll end up with engine braking at one end to a certain degree.

The auto boxes were almost certainly selected for one main reason, and that's clutch operation, which is one of the biggest ball aches in a twin engine set up. You can drive two identical manual 5th gens, and the clutches will almost certainly feel different between the two. With an auto box, it just simplifies the whole thing really for both gear selection and no clutch required.

There was a guy in the states who had a Del Sol running two turbo'd H22s, and from memory, it was running about 350hp per engine. That would be fun!!!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon May 25, 2015 9:02 am

I love it. And the front end restyle - looks great

And yep, my thoughts were the same as crazy's - clutches front/rear will never take up in the same way, would make for very messy/squirmy launches and uncomfortable gear changes, imo.

This is a 5g I would like to own

Post by **Merlin** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:19 pm

The vids of it - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC75ct7 ... 99g/videos

Not watched it yet though.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 11:43 pm

Good selling aid. Shame we don't get to see it "perform".