The Porsche Boxster in a man’s trash can is the F1-encouraged race car built through another man. Wesley Kagan sought to create his own Formula One driving force in the taste of the 1960s, that is, encouraged through Jim Clark’s 1967 Lotus 49 designed through Colin Chapman. Clark won his first race, and it was the same car that led him to his car driver’s last win in 1968. Hell Much less expensive if you are able to pass the DIY route.
To make his dream come true, Kagan needed a donor car with a rear-mounted engine as the basis for the project. In his video explaining the structure, he talks about searching online for the cheapest Porsche Boxster he can find, despite everything. locate an example of $2,500 that had a six-story smart center capable of pumping decent power.
The Porsche donated its engine, transmission, guide frame and many other parts to Kagan’s custom-made tubular chassis. Slowly but surely, the car began to take shape in a 300-horsepower bare and narrow race car with a thrust rod suspension weighing less than 1100 pounds. The car looks like a single-seat Ariel Atom that sucks his guts. With the power/weight ratio of the car, it probably rolls like any other.
Now the car is not one hundred percent finished, but in the maximum part the Boxster F1 works. It rolls well enough to avoid the public road and a track (the legality of the former is Array . . . an open question).
In his follow-up video, Kagan delves a little deeper into the express spaces where the Internet sought to learn more. What we see is precisely how much thought and problem solving was needed to build this car. suitable component of an absolutely different vehicle or custom-made parts.
For example, the Porsche’s gearbox was too wide to be installed between the seat and the car’s appearance, so Kagan took the design and copied it using aluminum, but making it a little narrower to have perfect compatibility with the position he wanted. The ground-mounted pedal design was derived from a Wilwood brake cylinder master kit. The throttle position sensor comes from a Jeep Wrangler. It uses a radiator stacked at the front with an area in the middle to allow outside air to pass through. The meter organization is designed around the guide wheel, however, as Kagan explains, this wants to return to the visibility of the instrument.
Kagan ends the video by pronouncing his goal of filming the car with his frame panels, then returning to the track to make quick laps with the car fully adapted.
This is another example of someone who nevertheless decides to do something about this annoying concept lodged in his head, makes me feel guilty for not moving away from my plans this week.
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