Chuck, IMHO in the case of the F500 conversion, you end up with car you can
work on and tune without an engineering degree, that doesn't cost a million
dollars everytime you have an offroad trip, shock tuning, wing setups, tire
costs.
You're right though, you get a better bang for the buck the other way.
CR
Chuck Voboril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is the primary reason for the initial popularity of F1000.
One buys a used FF2000 for about $4K to 7k w/out drivetrain or buys a used
car for about $11K and sells offf the drivetrain.
What one ends up with for about $6K is a car with carbon or alumimum wings
front and rear, giant brakes and calipers, 13" magnesium wheesl, 4
adjustable gas shocks and -if you lucky you found a car with triple
adjustable shocks.
Now you buy a MC engine and tranny, install it and go racing. You do not
need a Quaife. Open or locked will do just fine.
The cost of converting a f500 might be comparable, but you end up with a
funny non-mainstream looking car with no wings, baby 10" aluminum wheels,
no shocks at all, no independent rear suspension, and significantly less HP
with a 600cc motor.
Why would anyone want to convert a F500 to 600cc MC power when the starting
point is about the same cost for the donor car and you end up with so much
less of a car when you are done?
or comparing new to new, why end up with so much less of a car when you are
through?
No wings, no shocks, no IRS, no 13" wheels, no real modern formula car look.
Plus you have to race those smelly 2-strokes which will be all over you in
the corners which you then blow in the straights.
Just musing, byt being ablre to drive on 13" radial tires, then learning to
adjust wings and shocks are perhaps the main things a young lion needs to
learn to drive the faster cars in formula or sports racing.
Chuck
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