This is an interesting design - rear engine

[BusaNostra]

Maybe you've seen this car before. Who own this car?

I saw this car in facebook...look pretty impressive rear engine design.

I wonder what engine you can use... could be Bec.

Someone also posted this http://www.transworks.biz/minidiff.html

[locost7018]

It is not rear engine. It is midengine. Built by Kurt Bilinski (KB58) on the locostUSA site. He has published a large detailed book on how to build one. His car is called Midlana http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3740

[xcarguy]

Busa,

 

The car is on track with Scott Bilinski (brother of Kurt) in this video. Starts at around 13:30 in the vid:

 

 

Same track session as seen from Kurt's car. Go to about 6:00 for the Storker overtake :jester::

 

Edited March 15, 2015 by xcarguy

[xcarguy]

Busa,

 

Another vid of the car:

 

[BusaNostra]

Thank you for the video.

 

This is a mid-engine design ?

This car gets the 50:50 weight distribution or at least close to 50 50 ?

 

Impressive then....

Edited March 15, 2015 by BusaNostra

[escondidoron]

Kurt is a very talented fellow. He has built the car pretty much by himself after work in one stall of his at home 2-car garage (His wife's car is parked in the 2nd stall every night!). The basic concept for the build goes like this:

 

Two guys (both engineers) are driving cross country in an Esprit and discussing Colin Chapman and the original Lotus Seven. The conversation eventually gets around to what would the Seven be like if Chapman was starting fresh today.

[escondidoron]

Looking around at all of the front-drive vehicles for a donor, and knowing what we now know about polar moment of inertia, the car would obviously be mid-engined, right? So fast forward a few years and a whole lot of work late into the nights, you get to this, Midlana.

[escondidoron]

The engine is a turbo'd Honda. It weighs about 1500lbs all in. And it is blindingly quick. Quicker, I think, than his brother Scott's V8 Stalker.

 

 

 

 

 

This is Kurt's 2nd car from scratch. The 1st car was a tube frame carbon fibre bodied Mini silhouette car named Kimini.

[xcarguy]

The engine is a turbo'd Honda. It weighs about 1500lbs all in. And it is blindingly quick. Quicker, I think, than his brother Scott's V8 Stalker.

 

 

Ron,

 

Ah.......may want to take a look at the two videos listed in the third post. :rofl:

[escondidoron]

I stand by my statement. I said I "quicker, I think." Not faster.

 

Having been out on the road with them both, and observing both cars ability to accelerate and go around corners, I think that Midlana puts it's power to the ground in a much more usable fashion than Scott's live axle LS3 powered Stalker. Especially on the street where roads are often damp or coated with dust and other traction reducing impurities.

 

Both cars are very fast.