DickieB Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 Sadly, I was watching Scrapheap Challenge last night, and they were talking about the Range Rover thing with 2 engines in. They had had to disconnect 1 to go on the public roads because it was illegal to run 2 engines on the public road. So how do Z Cars get around this, or were Channel 4 wrong? Quote
jeff oakley Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 They are wrong and right. What is illegal is to have two engines that run independant axles. So the early twin engined tigers/ westfield had two engines into a common box driving a single axle.The later cars which have two engines driving two axles are not run independantly. They run via a very expensive motronic IIRC system which uses sensors to distribute the power evenly so you dont have one engine flat out whilst the other is not doing the same. if the engines were running independantly you would get power oversteer, power understeer at differing times making the car dangerous. In the 60s John Cooper had a twin engined mini which was fast but crashed due to this type of thing. Quote
stu999 Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 In the 60s John Cooper had a twin engined mini which was fast but crashed due to this type of thing. Not strictly true. The 'Twini' used another front subframe complete with engine and running gear fixed into the rear of the car. It is alledged that a steering tie rod broke, giving the car quite a lot of steering lock on one rear wheel at over 100 mph... Quote
Camel_Landy Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 So where does that leave the 2CVs & Mini Mokes that were produced with the extra engine to give them 4WD? (other than in a museum... ) M Quote
jeff oakley Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 As far as I am aware they are still legal as being factory jobs they did have the engineering to match front and rear engines, but they were not reliably controlable. The moke was designed for military applications. The idea being they could throw them out of a plane and with two engines they would go anywhere. It died a death. It seems to sum up our forces supply chains idea of a military machine, the yanks got the Hummer, if it had worked ours would have got a mini moke. Quote
Jan Coombes Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 2 engines are over rated any how. Oh hang on no there not. Quote
darthurs Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 What's the score with this one then? Twin Engine Golf Dan Quote
david.c Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 What's the score with this one then? Twin Engine Golf Dan These guys have got too much time and money David Quote
S8ight Posted February 10, 2005 Posted February 10, 2005 What's the score with this one then? Twin Engine Golf Dan not as quick as this Quote
semm Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 How did those scrappy racers get through SVA? Steve Quote
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