So sounds like you are going Scoobie route, mid engine RWD should work well, keep us all posted,
It will be a fresh noise for a Mini, and should give some serious traction/performance, nice low CoG too. Its ambitious and will need a lot of work, but worth it.
has it been done before ?
The 2 build ones I saw is the one I posted. At first, I thought it a was bike engine connected to a transworks mini-diff but on a closer look of the photo I have no idea what they use and the 2nd one is this one (http://car-from-uk.c...le.php?id=16875) mini clubman so you have more space to work with. As for me doing this, it depends so far I have 2 possible design one that is like dpcars that use a central tunnel as the main load-bearing member and has a chain driven 4wd system power by a bike engine. This actually would work pretty well in a mini the only really complicated part is the left and right weight balance of the car. As for the mid-engine RWD idea this is my preferred design, and could actually be less complicated to build if you use the transaxle as a stressed member (then you just have to figure out your corner connection to the bell housing to spread the load to the chassis), some formula class use the ld200 in this configuration and their weight is on part with lightweight minis I saw.
Edited by Mini-dude, 16 June 2018 - 04:32 AM.