Thread 28546907

Post obsucre/unknown racing prototypes.

For me, its the last Volkswagen-engined car to ever participate in Le Mans.

Ford GT40 J-car

toyota gr lh2

>>28547505
Would be cool if that ends up becoming the GR020.

>>28548027
It would be interesting to see such a hydrogen lmp at official races, but I doubt it is possible.

Even diesel engines were rare years ago -only Audi and Peugeot had LMP1 with diesel engines.

Practically all LMP675s besides the MG-Lola EX257 are unknown

>>28548076
I think the real issue is storage, Toyota already raced a Hydrogen powered Yaris for 24h and It worked.

Metalmoro MR18.

Mazda RX-792P. Used the same 4-rotor engine as the much more famous Gr.C car, but in a chassis built for IMSA GTP.

>>28548632
MRX, the MR18 is basically the hardtop version of the MRX.

>>28549298
>>28549300
good night, sweet prince

>>28549298
>>28549300
>not a racing prototype

Thread ruined.

Porsche 962, but French

Pescarolo 03.

Spice-Hart SE86, using a contemporary F1 engine as seen in the Lolas. 600hp from 1.5L doesn't sound great for an endurance racer, and it wasn't. Although it qualified 6th in class and was timed at 201mph, the car failed to classify in the '87 Le Mans results.

>>28549662
Isn't that the Dodge M4S?

>>28549355
what is this?

Can-Am McLaren.

Mooncraft Shiden, used to race in the GT300 class in Super GT, powered by a Toyota 1UZ-FE.

>>28549861
And the Shiden 77 it's "predecessor".

>>28549446
>Built on an LMP2 chassis
>Plebbitspacing
Stay on the cyclist board, retarded busrider
>>>/n/

>>28549775
These aren't obscure, they're probably the most well known can-am cars ever.

Sigma G5 from the Brasilian Endurance Championship.

>>28550163
>Stay on the cyclist board, retarded busrider

What part UNKNOWN and RACING do you not understand, retard? Maybe working on your reading comprehension will help with finishing your GED.

>>28549775

Ah, yes. The obscure Can-Am McLaren. Competed in the little-known Can-Am series driven by unremarkable drivers achieving forgettable results.

>>28550375
>plebbitspacing
go back faggot

HPD ARX-04. CFD-designed POS that entered the 2015 Daytona 24 Hours and failed to finish. Powered by the J-series-based HR28TT V6, the car was so underdeveloped that Extreme Speed Motorsports went back to their ARX-03 after its singular race. HPD eventually took back the car and redeveloped it, but nobody bought it thanks to the new gay LMP2 rules for 2017. The ARX-04 was also slated to run Pikes Peak that year but it failed to take the start for that race too

>>28550496
>doesn't support his argument
>ad hominem

You just continue to make this thread worse.

>>28550651
Underdeveloped prototype? How about not properly developing a whole new platform and engine, pulling out of every race in the calendar to focus on Le Mans, then having your two entries complete just 4 laps and 2 laps (plus 4 hours in the pits) respectively.
Lesson not to use a too-small budget to develop a ground -up design. Poor aero, unreliable underpowered engine, and when the engine worked, it broke the gearbox IIRC

>>28550651
Reminds me of the Vanwall.

>>28547500
Wasn't that one of the original sweet 16 hotwheels?

>>28550675
kill yourself subhuman plebbitor

>>28551195
>Wasn't that
fuck you
you know it was
you just posted it

i hate you fucking spineless children who grew up on youtube phrasing every goddamned thing like a loaded question because you're too pussy and insecure to just say "woah, that car was one of the original 16 hot wheels!" instead of this faggot-ass "isn't it???? wasn't that????" shit as if you don't already know the answer. i hate you and everyone who talks like you. please evaporate.

Metalmoro AJR also from the Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra championship and the sucessor of the MRX >>28549400

Metalmoro AJR also from the Brasilian championship and the sucessor of the MRX >>28549400

>>28551423
Kys yourself nigger

TWR RSC.

>>28551621
when your testicles drop you can choke on your own ballsack all you want kid
until then talk like an adult

>>28551423
lol mad

>>28551391
>can't even stay on topic
>reddit lives rent-free in his head
>doesn't realize that telling people to commit suicide is probably illegal where he lives

Degens like you are the reason why we can't have good threads on /o/.

>>28552041
>TWR RSC.

That's actually the LMP1-98.

>>28552383
Wow that's a lot of text, shame I don't read nothing written by plebbitors. Maybe stop pressing enter so much you ADHD retard?

>>28552393
>Wow that's a lot of text
>accuses others of having ADHD
>still buck-broken over reddit

Thanks for all the (You)s, I guess.

>>28552388
Weren't they related?

>>28549249
this looks amazing

>>28552475
Look, the retarded plebbitor can't stop pressing enter!

Elan NP01

BR03, a Russian protype powered by a 3.5 Renault V6 and a SADEV gearbox.

Chaparral 2H Can-Am 1969

Minelli Ferrari, another Brasilian prototype that used to race in the 90's, powered by a Ferrari V8 from a 348.

>>28553764
Wasn't this one on Gran Turismo 4?

Land Rover Series II
Ill fated

Lola Mk6, which later came to be the GT40.

Lola-Aston Martin.

I know a dude from quarter midgets that is now the engineer for an imsa team. Mfw it went all wrong for me because of crippling food allergies and smoking weed to make my stomach feel normal.
>inb4 dude lol
I fucking hate weed

>>28549298
>>28549300
>burns in your way

Mazda Prototype Lite.

Ford C100, from the 80's.

>Taurus Sports Lola
meh
>powered by a VW 5.0l V10 turbo diesel tuned by Caterpillar
wat

>>28555531
Tuned by CAT or is an actual V10 from cat?

Nobody will even remember these cars except crackers with autism. They will be scrapped and turned into EVs.

>>28552065
I will fuck holes in your rotting flesh.

>>28555667
This dumb niggers watch these rigged FIA events.

Leal Race Cars LR01, powered by a 2.3 Ecoboost. From Colombia.

>>28555688
>powered by a 2.3 Ecoboost
Fucking retarded. Yeah they may use the same block and head but 90 percent of that engine isn't an ecotoot.

>>28555692
Apparently they're getting 550hp from it, so i guess 'IT JUST WORKS' situation.

>>28555536
the bi-turbo v10 was provided by VW and prepared by CAT, the rest of the car was prepared/tuned by the Taurus team and Mountain (a separate engineering firm)
the car ended up failing because the torque of the v10 destroyed its gearbox

>>28555728
>torque of the v10 destroyed its gearbox

Classic CAT

>>28555667
Yikes, a shitskin

ardex s80

>>28552750
>Weren't they related?
LMP1-98 were upgraded WSC-95. A bunch of aero changes, a redesigned rearend, and a different water-cooled engine and gearbox that was used in the GT1 car. The only thing that stayed the same was the TWR monocoque and the frontend.

One car was reverted back to its WSC-95 spec over the course of years following 1998.

>>28556541
The front reminds me of the Audi R8, the prototype one. I guess that was the design language at the time.

GeeBee R1, built by a Chevrolet dealership in Brazil, powered by a 427 V8.

The WM P88. Not many people know this car was the reason the Mulsanne got chicanes.

They entered the race purely to break the 400kph record down the straight and they did it, 407kph and a few laps later the engine melted itself.

It was powered by a Peugeot V6.

>>28557120
Apparently during tests on a closed section of the highway, it reached 416km/h .

Unbelievable.

>>28557120
WM has some interesting machines
>Powered by a Peugeot 304 engine

god, these images are sex

Panoz LMP07 doesn't get much love.

>>28552475
Sure sounds literally like redditor I can't even almost all the things like totally lunch table meme console video games. Does that make more sense?

>>28557710
Love this thing. It's pure dangerous science experiment kino.

>>28558197
>>28558894
>Panoz chassis with Mugen engine
Holy based

>acquire Chevrolet GTP
>also acquire a 10.2 l V8
>take on Le Mans
>fail to qualify
>generally fart around, overheat and don't make the race
Oh well

>>28559476
I think that's the same chassis later used on the Esperante.

>>28559476
Doesn't sound like a Mugen
https://youtu.be/VOCzB2LgMMo

>>28559580
The Esperante GTR-1 came first
>>28559614
The switch to the 4 liter Mugen unit wasn't until 2002

>>28549298
>>28549300
o7
can't believe Hammond started it on fire

>>28557120
Not *just* a Peugeot V6. The infamous PRV V6. It's a bad engine.

>>28549667
>Turbo Interceptor. The only one in existence. Does very special things. Take care of it, will ya?

>>28559699
I too have seen the movie.

>>28559680
It's one of those cases where they made one engine and used it on EVERYTHING for decades.

Like how GM used 50's engines on cars up to 2000's.

Dome S102, a Hero of the 2008 Le Mans where the shrieking V10 cut through all the garbage diesels of the time. Qualified well in 8th but had issues in the race that made it one of the last finishers. It was a favourite here on the /o/ LM threads (yes we used to talk about cars here) being a loud V10 powered weeb-appealing Gundam styled LMP1.

The Lola T92/10 was powered by a Judd V10 and built for the 1992 season. Two were sold to a private team and suffered from consistent gearbox issues. The one that managed to finish Le Mans that year did so 80 laps behind the leader, and the car became defunct after Group C collapsed at the end of the year and the team went bankrupt.
Looks fuckin sick tho.

>>28559744
*follow on*
One of the chassis went on to live another life in LMP900 as the Ascari A410 after being bought by Klaad Zwart. To little surprise, it often retired with gearbox failure, however managed some success including a win. Following that, it was swapped with a BMW V8 due to Ascari's deal for engines in their road car and it became much less successful until it was retired for good as Ascari focused on its road car and GT racing efforts.

>>28559744
Reminds me of that Jaguar V12 that spun up to 12k rpm.

PLS WATCH OUR LEAGUE ;_:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTigosf61r4

>>28559780
The Jag used a Cosworth V8 for the 3.5 regs, though a V12 was used by BRM with their P351. Derived from Weslake's 1960's F1 engine it could still produce over 600hp at 13krpm, and was fast in a straight line but was long and heavy. Given that, and not enough budget to develop the car, it only ran three race, retiring each time due to electrical and transmission issues before the team went bankrupt.

>>28559817
I meant like the XJR-14.

>>28559793
fug ;_:

>>28559821
Yeah, Cossie V8, considering developing a new F1 spec engine would have been quite the task, not a bad shout.

>>28559838
Sex sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myziZSzwzYQ

>>28559821
The XJ220 that nearly was.

>>28559846
Didn't they raced it?

>>28559855
A one make series is all I can think of.

>>28559712
>robustesse

>>28560614
Has France ever made a V8 that wasn't in a one-off racecar?

>>28560637
They guillotine you if you try

>>28560637
They also don't know what the fuck they're doing with them

>>28560647
>2.3L V8
>95 hp

tis the 50's tis fine.

Following a few RX-7 entries, Mazda stepped up in 1983 with a new prototype for the C2 class, the 717C. It used a fairly mild 13B but managed to win its class at Le Mans although was the only C2 finisher. It's also very cute.

>>28561905
Not exactly unknown, though i wish they didn't dropped it. It was an interesting design.

>>28561905
Nigga, that car had a superbowl commercial.

DTR-01, powered by a turbo K20, used to race on the Brasilian Endurance series, but it dissapeared for a few years until early this year it came back, but racing at a state Endurance championship instead of the national.

GT1 C5?

>>28551391
this is what the term reddit spacing originates from? didnt know that, have never used the site
thanks for the info

>>28563873
People that complain about it have never actually worked a job where they would have to compose documents for record or have even written college papers. You see double-spaced paragraphs all over the legal, government, and business letters and documents. They just call it "reddit spacing" because that's probably the only place they had experience with it.

The only people I've seen complain about it are coders who can't just copy/paste shit without it being formatted a certain way. Everybody else is just being an autist for no legitimate reason.

oc

>>28565636
>>28565639
>>28565641
Gaucho Endurance?
Got any DTR pics?

>>28564483
>being an autist for no legitimate reason.
Being autistic is a legitimate reason for being an autist, normalfag

>>28550679
That thing was really weird
Bespoke 2 litre inline 6 with a turbo. I get that they were trying to design a smaller engine out of the V12, but there are a couple of good packaging and weight distribution reasons why nobody else attempted to create a protoype around an inline 6. I just can't see how this would have turned into a competetive racecar, even with a working driveline and developed chassis

Nice sound though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9s8aEyv3w

>>28558894

That's a Roadster S. Hardly unknown/obscure if you're not a zoomer.

>>28551625
What's with the tank sized windows on protos these days.

>>28566411
Aerodynamics.
Also can't have open-top prototypes now since everything is gay.

>>28565652
I didnt manage to get any close shots from the DTR :(

>>28565652
this is all I managed to take, frame from a vid

>>28566865
Saved, ty.

Do you still work with the Merc GT3's?

>>28566118
Always surprising on how there are so few racecars with Inline 6's.

bump4txw

>>28566118
The engine rules were 3400cc 8 cyl max or turbocharged 2000cc 6 cyl max and on paper it was the only thing that would make more power than the existing petrol engines to give you any chance against diesels. While every other 2L turbo was an I4 it makes sense, the extra engine length doesn't matter except for slightly moving the unballasted weight rearward because you're just going to have a long ass bellhousing to get the wheelbase you want anyways. (and indeed the AMR-One still has a long ass bellhousing) It's no more of a problem than running a V12 instead of a V8 in that sense, and it's not an insanely small displacement per cylinder either considering say the 333SP was a 4L V12.

This thing was meant to compete in the 1993 season of Group C but it got shitcanned because that series folded and Peugeot were going into Formula 1 in 1994

>>28571021
For me, it's the Sauber C292 with a 13k rpm flat 12

>>28571041
I've heard the C291 and that is a phenomenal engine note but I personally prefer the older turbo Saubers

Roco 001, made of an F3 from Ralt chassis, used to race on the Brasilian endurance series a few years ago, nowadays you can only see it on regional series. It's powered by a Hayabusa engine.

>>28571692
Same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am68lQsoNaI

>>28551423
The fuck.