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Old Jul 28, 2004 | 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by axemansean
If you want people to stand and stare then look into the Euroworks Attack. Its an Accord based kit car....
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but please make sure you research this very thoroughly before you embark on this project.

The H22 is a heavy and high-decked motor for a 1900# car. It will feel very torquey but without heavy bodywork like on the '93 Prelude and '94-'97 Accord generation the kit car will have a very high polar moment of inertia, and the car will tend to rotate very far ahead of the driver's input.

This is dangerous if the driver doesn't know what he's doing.

The videos of the badly driven drag races do not convince me that the builders necessarily know what they're doing, either.

Moreover, the angle of the windscreen would make me ask about the roll structure and other safety features. The rear rollbars (if they even are that) are so low that we would not allow it on the track in NASA even if it did compose a part of a roll structure that they could document.

Just be careful and research this carefully. The couple of minutes I spent looking at it made me wonder.
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