Comments on: Twin Engine Lupo

By: oldscoob

oldscoob — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:13:41 +0000

like most ricers, it's little hairy. teenage singular pube hair beards forever. An itty bitty hardly hairy. How vary scary.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:52:22 +0000

Now, how many of us remember the "Hurst Hairy Oldsmobile?" (google it)

By: rool

rool — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:37:01 +0000

already fifteen comments and i'm the first to ask 'why?'

By: orlando from sa tx

orlando from sa tx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:51:32 +0000

that is amazing. nice car man. how does it perform.

By: XTZTwinTurbo

XTZTwinTurbo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:50:51 +0000

Probably would work.. SOmeone already did that with a Hyundai Tiburon a while back. . Does nice burnouts. But you would need some sort of engine management master ECU to keep things in sync..

By: retroman

retroman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:26:18 +0000

twin engine cars are pretty awesome when pulled off right. The most crazy one I ever saw was the fully functional life size version of Hot Wheels "Twin Mill". I see alot of this stuff at the county fair truck/tractor pulls too, not to forget the few crazy show off drag cars. Never dreamed of rally racing though, but it sounds like a great idea, even if it is a little complex.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:26:38 +0000

same thing was done to an Audi TT a few years ago.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:13:29 +0000

I read about and saw videos of a twin engine Tiburon. It was in Sport Compact Car's first Ultimate Street Car Challenge. That thing was pretty crazy...

Also, I know a guy that was working on putting 2 motor cycle engines into the back of some kind of car (didn't get enough details about the project to provide any more), but what he was going to do was to have each engine drive 1 rear wheel. I believe he's still working on it and troubleshooting, but I'm not sure... Either way, that's a hell of an engineering challenge, and I give anyone who pulls it off props...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:15:38 +0000

is it still just front wheel drive?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:48:05 +0000

Twin engined cars aren't anything new, so I certainly believe it'll work in the Lupo. The first twin engined car I ever saw in person was a CRX back in the 80's, which apparently was a Car and Driver project, but the owner lived in Coronado at the time and I got to check it out up close. The guy even had appropriate plates, they read "SINCHRO".

http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/02/car-lust--twin.html

Also, there was a guy a while back on the DSM forums that was building a twin engined Talon using a pair of 4G63 turbos. There were pix of it at a car show, but I don't remember seeing any videos of it in action.

I wish this guy luck! That's a hell of an engineering project! Personally, I would have satisfied myself with dropping the VR6 in the back and making something a bit nastier than the Aygo Crazy out of it.