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Posted: 08/15/09
09:34 PM
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Frequent kit car magazine reader, first time poster, hopefully future builder.
I came across a picture in a news article's associated gallery, and it is a car that I've not seen before, and the details lead me to think it is a fabricated car.
Just curious if anyone has more information about this, or some leads that would get me started doing some research on this car.
http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/2009-gordon-mccalls-motorworks-revival/full/#26
I am particularly interested in this one, because the proportions are very nice, with varied details from 60s-70s era mid-engined italian cars... I love mid-engined cars, and that is where and when it all started.
As my handle suggests, I prefer boxer style engines, and own two Subarus currently, and love the engines. I'd love to use one as a powerplant for a mid-engined car. A theoretical goal would be to use a rebuilt, balanced, blueprinted, and set up for forced induction EG33 flat 6 from an SVX (which is one of my Subarus...)
Set up for twin intercooled turbocharging, laid out similarly to Ferrari 288 GTO's symmetrical arrangment would be great, and the EG33, while two pistons short, is still low, well featured, and has a rear-facing twin-intake throttle-body that is ready-made for mid engined placement, and parallel tract turbos, and less expensive to run and maintain than a Porsche turbocharged engine.
With a longitudinal manual transaxle, with a limited slip differential, such as a Porsche unit, I think would be a very nice drivetrain in a car that looks like the one pictured, or several other replica, or original design fabricated mid-engined cars.
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