Drift-bus Transit Mk7 440HP from Poland

[wojciech]

V8/BMW engine in Driftbus:



and film from mobile (little bit poor quality), Poznań Circuit 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcTjSqwnjMI

[wojciech]

One more Driftbus! - this time from Germany. Any informations - only picture...
Excellent idea for Mk6. Very, very nice...

[stevo]

Thats a cartoon picture isnt it? Cool van though, wouldnt mind my Mk6 lookin like that.

[wojciech]

Thats a cartoon picture isnt it?

Is it? Oh, no....

[yogi]

yea look in the cab there is no driver

[wojciech]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjTi-56EAo

[wojciech]

Pictures of rear suspension (from youtube film):

[beachbreaker]

you are crazy man )

[knighty1981]

old thread...

but what does the center link bar do ? the one fixed to the axle ?

it looks like both ends of it are fixed directly to the van chassis... so they won't move on the ends...


all I can think is, it's to keep the diff central.... but I can't imagine it would want to move sideways much anyway ?

[transitandy]

Old but good thread m8y

[wojciech]

but what does the center link bar do ? the one fixed to the axle ?

It is very popular Watt's linkage rear suspension - especially in sport cars, but not only (for ex. Mazda RX7). Sometimes it is called bar-system "Z".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watt% ... ension.gif

In Marcin Wicik's drift-bus, bar-stabilizer is taken from Transit-tipper version.
Diff is stabilized also by lengthways bars - two on one side.
Diff works with McPherson dumper (Bilstein).

This type of suspension (with bulky diff) has good charakteristic on way - fast answer for bump and good adherence.

[wojciech]

Marcin Wicik's page - Drift-Bus builder:

http://wicikmotorsport.com/construction.html

[baldy1]

Very interesting ....

[wojciech]

Some pictures - once more. Now by Tinypic.com:
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[baldy1]

Is this another build or old pics?