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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
The 90 deg drive is partially hidden by that hose! In a normal Escort there wouldn’t be room between the bulkhead and cam carrier for that drive, but in a spaceframe car you can create your own space! Interesting that the engine and gearbox are mounted so far back that the normal ZF gear lever remote is not required, and the lever looks to be angled forward as well......  |
The thing that has grabbed my attention with this car is the lack of width in the footwell. Especially with the engine right alongside and the proximity to the outer edge of the chassis.
I appreciate that a single seater is much the same in terms of space - maybe less, but in the event of a driver's side collision of any significant magnitude I assume that space in the Escort would likely become somewhat smaller.
Whilst many more recent cars seem to to have attempted to move seats inwards a little closed to the centre line and well within the roll cage that design does not allow such an option as far as I can see. In fact it goes the other way.
Brave times - the '70s.