How would you take one of these:
http://www.kenyonmidgetracing.com/
and make it an autocross/track day demon?
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Nov. 17, 2011 8:30 p.m. stroker HalfDork
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Nov. 17, 2011 8:57 p.m. Shaun HalfDork
They only turn left. And I am semi serious, so, no.
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Nov. 17, 2011 9:09 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork
I think the chassis is offset on those for running roundy-rounds. I'd be scared of traction rolling it on sticky rubber.
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Nov. 17, 2011 9:28 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork
I do wonder what it would be like without the offset. But I lack the resources to go further in to that.
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Nov. 17, 2011 9:52 p.m. bearmtnmartin New Reader
They are not all offset chassis. There is a dwarf class at our speedway that sport a 1200 yamaha and a tube frame. They are so quick that it is hard to believe. Look up Roger ward and his offy powered midget back in the day that beat some really fast cars at lime rock. Lefts and rights.
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Nov. 17, 2011 10:09 p.m. fasted58 SuperDork
In reply to stroker:
why would you even want to?
there's too damn much to change, trade it for a B Mod or formula car
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Nov. 18, 2011 5:46 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork
In MSCC autocrosses, Chuck Peterson's girls used to run something that looked like that in the karting classes.....I'm sure that the resemblance was just cosmetic, though.....the thing was underpowered and slow.
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Nov. 18, 2011 6:41 a.m. 1988RedT2 SuperDork
I want to build one of those around an old 327 I have sitting in my garage. My wife assures me that it's a crazy thing to do.
I'm like: "You're right. ... What's your point?"
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Nov. 18, 2011 7:25 a.m. z31maniac SuperDork
bearmtnmartin wrote:
They are not all offset chassis. There is a dwarf class at our speedway that sport a 1200 yamaha and a tube frame. They are so quick that it is hard to believe. Look up Roger ward and his offy powered midget back in the day that beat some really fast cars at lime rock. Lefts and rights.
Legends.
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Nov. 18, 2011 8:06 a.m. foxtrapper SuperDork
I pretty regularly see various old midget type cars available cheaply, and have often wondered how well they would do at autocrossing. For the most part, I expect they could do quite well.
I would be leery of the offset types. But then again, that could make for interesting paths through the slaloms.
