Actually the body width is within .5 in, wheel track is the same. But you are right that the total cross-section is more, and the weight will be more. In trade the coefficient will be lower and you get trunk space. In fact soooo much that you could put batteries and motors in there and make this an all wheel drive electric hybrid. For example, something like the motor drive below could be added to the CV joints. If the Elio is a standard transmission, just leave it out of gear and consider the gas engine as just a range extender. With the right batteries, controller(s) and motors you could get 1000hp out of it for 5min or so and still keep high efficiency(at other output levels). ammmm, let's not talk cost.Very cool concept, but I think you just increased the width possibly making a real dent in mpg, though if you're telling me there's a BMW S70/2 yanked out of a McLaren F1, under the hood, I'm all in!
Definitely mad-man dreaming. This is just play while we wait for more interesting things to happen at EM. But lots of surprising things can come from play.
Link to model=> https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=uf4ca287b-b19d-456b-af3c-339c636dd423
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, I did my best with the short investment of time I was willing to put in to it. I had to guess at the CG, but that's easy to adjust by moving the main wing fore or aft. I did zero effort to calculate wing loading or anything like that.