Colin Chapman famously liked to ‘add lightness’ to his progeny, but this Esprit engine mount may be taking that one step too far.
Actually, this is a template for a steel mount that the builder of this Audi 4.2-powered Esprit cobbled together in order to craft the real edition. The amazing, and amazingly detailed, build thread can be found here.
Image source: [Motorgeek.com]
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I know European law dictates that a significant portion of any car must be recyclable, but this is just ridiculous.
Everyone knows Fiats disintegrate at the slightest hint of moisture.
Cardboard engineering FTW!
Actually, I can show you how it needs to be shaped.
It's a good start, but you've got a lot to learn if you want to be a real Audi engineer. It not only needs to break prematurely, it also needs to be expensive to replace.
You forgot impossible to access without taking the better part of the car apart.
Also seems to be a cardboard frame rail/brace thing under the engine, too. And a cardboard garage floor. Man, this guy really likes his cardboard!
Just spent two hours reading that thread… wow.
Indeed. I feel my life has been misspent.
I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but I scanned it and read all the juicy parts. Guys like that make life hell for the rest of us: "I just did this, that and the other thing and then it all worked…" Which tragically leads us to believe that real life is like that.
Sure, he's clever enough to be able to keep his engine up off the street using nothing but carboard, but he can't even keep a nice coat of varnish on his pistons!
Seems more appropriate for a horizontally-opposed Subaru motor.
I see nothing wrong here. Now, if they plan on using empty paper towel rolls for the CV shafts…then they might have problems.
M-B, not to be outdone, released spy photographs of it's concept.
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IMG ironically enough is from Audizine.com
Daimler internal memorandum:
"In light of the current economy, the budget for test mule camouflage material has been reduced by 98%. Please contact Helga in the cafeteria for your tin foil and saran-wrap requirements, and Fritz in shipping & receiving for cardboard and adhesive tape…"
Needs moar duct tape.
Now, if he could just find a use in this project for all of the empty beer cans….
Should be easy to find a use for at least a couple of empty beer cans on a Lotus project – maybe a radiator puke can, cut some up to make small brackets or heatshields – being aluminium, they fit in with Colin Chapman's ethos, "Simplify, then add lightness".
I'm not sure about using them with the M-B project though……
Duh! The beer cans are for the headers!
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