My search for a cheap track car.

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Sorry Joey, i wasn't picking your argument apart - i was presuming that Slicks knew for sure that it was a tube framed chassis. đź‘Ť
 
TheCracker
Sorry Joey, i wasn't picking your argument apart - i was presuming that Slicks knew for sure that it was a tube framed chassis. đź‘Ť
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No worries. The back half was definatly modified to have a link suspension installed. I'll try to find some more pictures of it on my computer to show more of it.
 
Does make a difference, though, that the gearing between the front and rear wheels makes for awkward manuverability. I think the front wheels on a 4WD truck rotate slightly slower, even in 4HI, and that the drive is a bit more...solid...than it is on a normal AWD vehicle.
 
Have you thought of just buying a rolling shell? It wouldn't cost too much money, depending on the car, and you can choose whatever drivetrain you want.
 
Jim Prower
Does make a difference, though, that the gearing between the front and rear wheels makes for awkward manuverability. I think the front wheels on a 4WD truck rotate slightly slower, even in 4HI, and that the drive is a bit more...solid...than it is on a normal AWD vehicle.
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With part time 4WD, the front wheels would have to rotate the same speed as the rear, otherwise there'd be some wear in the transfer case. In the case of AWD, there's a variable center diff so wear isn't a problem, and in full-time 4WD's, you get a variation of a variable center diff, so power goes to front and rear but there's no binding in the transfer case.
 
hemisport15
Have you thought of just buying a rolling shell? It wouldn't cost too much money, depending on the car, and you can choose whatever drivetrain you want.
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ON that: I found an engineless AE86 in his area awhile back. Try searching for that!
 
Joey D
Here is an actually SCCA pickup racing series
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=391203572
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That first race series the vid shows, on proper road courses, looked like pure and utter awesomeness. I love the stock hatch series we get in the UK but part of me very much wants a race series like that too. Maybe Top Gear can create one for old Mitsubishi L200s, Vauxhall Bravas, Ford Rangers and Toyota Hiluxes...
 
TheCracker
I think his point is that a tube-frame S-10 isn't an S-10 anymore than Jimmie Johnson's ride is a Chevy Impala.
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TheCracker
Well, without wanting to fight someone else's argument, it's not an extreme example of an S-10 - it's not, and has never been, an S-10 in the first place. And is therefore irrelevant to the argument that an S-10 could make a good track car.
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TheCracker
Sorry Joey, i wasn't picking your argument apart - i was presuming that Slicks knew for sure that it was a tube framed chassis. đź‘Ť
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Thanks for filling in for me. That's roughly the point I was trying to make.

Without extensive and costly modification, you won't see a truck being a race vehicle that's competitive. The suspension technology isn't there, the weight distribution isn't there (A 2.2 single cab shortbox is 59/41!!), and the brakes aren't there. It should be obvious that if you have to put that much work into a vehicle to make it capable, then it's not a good base to work with.


I think the presumption that it's a tube frame chassis is reasonable, given the exposed work in bed of the vehicle in question.
 

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