FiaGuzzi racer

[Michael Moore]

Ive a local contact who is involved in racing cars, usually oddball stuff for the Lemons (not LeMans) class.  I mentioned my Guzzi project to her and she sent me these two links to videos of the Fiat600/Guzzi "FiaGuzzi" racer her team built.

https://youtu.be/IPnpO48JiIA

https://youtu.be/W0MNXVAvDPQ

Pretty cool!

cheers,
Michael

[fotoguzzi]

Now that's some cool air cooling.

[sidecarnutz]

Its a shame that massive air ducting didn't work well enough for it. It'd be fun to see that project work well!

[Michael Moore]

I'd not be surprised if the ducts add enough drag to offset any power gains, that's a lot of extra frontal area.  But the focus of the Lemons class seems to be more along the lines of having fun coming up with a wacky project that gets run on the race track vs actually winning.  Getting something built and and going around the track probably counts as a first-order win before a race is ever flagged off.

[nc43bsa]

Either this is a car I saw over a year ago, or there are TWO FiaGuzzis running around the track.

Think about them apples.   

[Turin]

It's not going to go fast enough to worry about drag.

[Michael Moore]

It can go at least as fast as a pushbike, and they worry about drag.   

[Moparnut72]

This showed up at the Nevada State Guzzi Campout.





The next day his wife showed up with this one. Brand X motor though, she didn't know if she should bring it. We told he we didn't discriminate.

[Alfetta]

man,  this makes me miss my 600 sooo bad...

I mostly miss those suicide doors !..  If you ever had a car so equipped, you would want nothing else, ever...

[Michael Moore]

A FiaGuzzi with a different engine mounting scheme: