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Encyclopedia > Elfin MS8 Streamliner
Elfin MS8 Streamliner
Elfin MS8 Streamliner

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The Elfin MS8 models have been designed by Elfin Sports Cars and styled by the Holden Design team. This collaboration between two proud Australian manufacturing icons has been an enthusiastic exercise, by car enthusiasts, for car enthusiasts. Image File history File links Elfin_ms8. ... Image File history File links Elfin_ms8. ... Elfin Cars Pty Ltd has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1957. ... This article is about the Australian car manufacturer. ...


The Elfin MS8 sports cars are worthy successors to the famous Elfin MS7, the Chevrolet V8 powered Elfin which won the 1975 and 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy Sports Car Championships. Elfin Cars Pty Ltd has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1957. ... Elfin Cars Pty Ltd has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1957. ... Chevrolet, or Chevy for short, is a brand of automobile, now a division of General Motors. ...


Drivetrain

The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ... A gearbox is an assembly of gears allowing the rotational speed of an input shaft to be changed to a different speed. ... In automotive applications, a limited slip differential (LSD) is a modified or derived type of differential gear arrangement that allows for some difference in rotational velocity of the output shafts, but does not allow the difference in speed to increase beyond a preset amount. ...

Safety

Traction control and Vehicle Stability Control systems, on current production vehicles, are typically (but not necessarily) electro-hydraulic systems designed to prevent loss of control when excessive throttle or steering is applied by the driver. ... ABS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings: Able-bodied Seaman / Able-bodied Seamen — (the original term was Able Seaman, abbreviated AB) ABS, a popular clothing brand by Allen B. Schwartz Always Better Service, the brand name of a computer manufacturing company. ... Cruise control (sometimes known as speed control or Autocruise) is a system to automatically control the speed of an automobile. ...

Suspension

  • Fully independent rear suspension with top and bottom wishbones plus toe link adjustment
  • Front suspension with top and bottom chrome moly, unequal, aerofoil wishbones
  • Fully adjustable race spec rose joints throughout
  • Elfin alloy uprights (front and rear), fully adjustable for camber, caster & toe
  • Coil over Koni shock absorbers, adjustable for bump, rebound and ride height

Suspension may refer to: suspension (chemistry) suspension bridge suspension (music) suspension (vehicle) (system of shock absorbers and supports that connect a vehicle to its wheels) suspension (civil engineering) (system that connects a structure to its foundation, for example in earthquake protection) suspension (topology) suspension (body modification) suspension bondage suspension (figure... A shock absorber is a mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp a sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy. ...

Brakes

  • Slotted & ventilated 4 wheel disc brakes Front: 32 x 343mm discs
  • Elfin alloy billet machined 6 pot calipers Rear: 18 x 315mm discs with handbrake
  • Elfin alloy billet machined 4 pot calipers

On automobiles, disc brakes are located within the wheel The disc brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel. ...

Steering/Pedals

  • Rack and pinion with adjustable steering column
  • Fully adjustable alloy pedal box with brake bias adjustment

Wheels/Tyres

This article needs to be wikified. ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ...

Construction

  • Jig assembled, hand crafted multitubular space frame
  • GRP body panels

Dimentions

  • Length 3500mm
  • Front Track 1460mm
  • Width 1710mm
  • Rear Track 1430mm
  • Wheelbase 2290mm
  • Kerb Weight 1050kg

External links

  • Official Site


 
 

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