open wheeler with roadcar engine

[zac510]

Yeah it would be intersting but difficult to do any direct comparisons without knowing other rules like minimum weight, tyre size.

Actually I remembered earlier on, there is a car in the French hillclimb championship that has a BMW straight 6 in it. I *think* but can't be 100% sure, that it is called Norma. I'll do a search and see what turns up.

[RacingManiac]

The closest formula to this now, albeit its not an openwheel formula, is Grand Am's daytona prototype. Which puts production derived engine in purpose built sports car-type, close roof chassis, and standard racing transmission. It works better on a sportscar I guess since it gives you a heck of a lot more room to put the systems in place....They certainly are tweaking the formula all the time to get some sort of equivelency out of them.....Grand AM plays with rev limit, minimum weight and so forth to try to get the different chassis/engine combo to be competitive....

[flynfrog]

Lets say the transaxle was made as a standard part just like the chassis and the the different manufacturers engines were bolt on parts to the package to see how well they fare against one another. Would it be interesting, and how fast would they go? Would they be faster than F-3 cars?

you might as well just race dynos then

remeber a car is fast not becaue of its power but how well it can put it down

the engine is only a small piece of the package ask most people who race and there biggest complaint will be the handling not the power of the car this is why it takes years to design a good car not becasue of the engine but the chassis tuning

your series sounds boring to me the engine with the most power?weight should win asuming equal chassis