Hey guys my names Matt i live in NC, USA and have been trolling the forum for a while now trying to get some ideas from my build. I recently purchases a F15 eagle 600 gallon tank in hopes of building a car to run in some portion of the streamliner class with a unblown 1300cc engine if at all possible. I was wondering if you guys come answer some questions i have.
First of all ive read and have been following the bellytank builds in this section. About how much could you expect something like that to weight minus engine after completion?
Secondly I had planned on running Model A Front axle. Are there any hub upgrades that you know of to maybe run disk brakes.
Lastly I was wondering about running a Mazda Rotary Engine but i had heard from a few different people that some timing associations run a 3x rule on rotary engines making them upgrade to the E engine class instead of the H. Is this true?
thanks for all your help guys and i should have pics of my tank up on here soon.
Welcome, are you planning on running Maxton, B'ville or both???
Weight at B'ville probably won't hurt you at Maxton it will.
Speedway and others have disc. brake conversions for an "A" axle if you run 30?? to '46 ford spindles. I'm doing that on my site. I'm using Mopar rotors on those spindles and there are pictures. I turned the rotors off though to just have hubs. There again at b'ville I personally don't think you need the front brakes, but at Maxton I would have them.
I think you might be right about the rotary engine, but will let someone else jump in here on that and it would be hard to guess at your weight without a lot more specifics, but I would guess somewhere between 1400 and 2000 lbs. would cover most applications.
Why 1300 cc's when you would be in a 1500 cc class??
Good luck,
Sum