scholar 983sr

sports 1000 race car developed to compete in the 750 motor club sports 1000 series.

 

The car featured in these pages is one that we are building to the customers specification, which was for a rear engined coupe version of our Scholar 983S.

To fulfil this brief we had to do some seriously lateral thinking, the rolling chassis is all but complete and I think you will agree that the result is starting to look like a real race car.

  

         
As with all cars built to compete in the 750 Motor Club Sports 1000 series the specification calls for a space frame chassis, using a bevel driven live axle from a production car, and the BMW K100 bike engine and gearbox. With control tyres which have to be fitted to 13" rims setting the final parameters.  
         
Taking all the above restrictions into account the rest of the design process is left to the individual to come up with the final incarnation.

The next difficult stage of the process is to finalise the drive train of this car. In an attempt to keep the wheelbase within our 

 

design limits and to sit the driver as far back as possible to help traction, we decided to split the engine and gearbox which will be connected via a chain / toothed belt, this will also allow us to correct the gearing of the bike gearbox. This however has meant that we have had to offset the rear axle massively, and will have to fit a reversing gearbox into a very small space. Thankfully I think we have come up with a solution.

      
 

 

The chassis of our Scholar 983SR sports 1000 coupe is now complete, the tasks remaining are to design and build the fully enclosed body for the car and to finalise the mounting of the engine / gearbox and final drive into a space which seems to be getting smaller every time I look at it. To enable us to do this we have had to come up with some very lateral thinking, the result has been that we have had to mount the engine alongside the gearbox driven by a toothed belt system which incorporates not only the clutch but also the

 
mechanism which gives us the mandatory reverse gear. The rear axle has also had to be offset to the drivers side. The rear axle has been mounted onto the rear of the space frame using a variation of our unique wishbone set-up which uses pull rods to operate the spring and damper assemblies, which is the method used on the front of the car. By using this method to hang the live rear axle we felt that the basic space frame could be adapted for a number of different applications. The theory of building the chassis in this  
manner is so that in the future we can possibly adapt the chassis to run, for instance, the complete front suspension from a production car such as the Metro GTi or Vauxhall Corsa GSi, in fact the choice of set-up using a basic 'space frame tub' is almost endless.  

   

This page is still under construction

Details of our car are however still available on the sports 1000 page.