Quick Update

Hi

I have been a bit busy just recently and havent done much to the car. I have made a mock up of a 3 engine car with shaftdrive and a removable 3 speed gearbox. Here is a model

Steering Gyro Test

I have been looking at making Alien 2 rear wheel drive only as the 4wd system saps the power and adds weight. The problem is traction and reaction speed when the car goes offline. To compensate I have been testing a steering gyro. Here is a video of it fitted on the RRR. I removed all the front wheel drive system and installed the gyro. I tested the car and it does crab to the right slightly but the gyro always tries to keep it straight. Here is a video of it working.




I have now decided on a configuration for the Alien 2 as follows

1m long
3 x Novarossi 35PLUS21 engines
Single 3 speed gearbox (removable and able to install CVT)
Rear wheel drive
Gyro steering

Practice speed event

I had been waiting for the practice event to test the car and low and behold down came the rain!! The moring was washed out but we did manage some runs in the afternoon. Here is the vid of the event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LZ9sHUXD-k

The V2RRR went well but I only managed 82.4 mph and it was only just changing into 2nd. The problem was that the pipe has such a norrow power band that when it changed to 2nd the engine dropped off the power and stalled the engine. It sounded like it was going lean but it was the power band.

I need to reduce the 2nd speed gearing a lot to get it to accelerate after changing up but then the max speed can only be about 110mph unless I have 3 gears.

CVT Testing

Here is a video of the CVT being tested. I cant embed the video so its a link to a youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0BERPIp364