Rims will dig in. Skates are narrow so minimal drag. Skates are also long so more weight support. However, I would use at least 4 blades on each rim to have enough surface to support the engine weight. On the other hand, if it wasn't for blades digging it they would probably slide off to sides more often.
7:56 "evolution" - this is the future! I love the song you are using. Very accurate for the situation!! I am pretty sure Santa Claus decided to fire the reindeers and buy himself a Lada with ice skates! Nice drift !!
I wish I could find a Lada here in America, I actually like them. There are so many of them still on the road after all these years, they're clearly built pretty well.
Now this is a truly unique idea, with ice skates!!! A few years ago, I did put a skateboard under each rear wheel of a FWD Dodge Caravan, with the parking brake on... with success!!
You should make your own blades using rear leaf spring steel. Make them much longer and at a slight angle to dig in when cornering. Blades should be longer like skies imo. Fun video. Also studded ice tyres on the rear.
The yanking steering wheel. Just like four wheeling in the old days before steering dampeners and independent front suspension was a big thing .I remember off roading an old Dodge Ramcharger that would break your fingers if you didn't hold the steering wheel just right while you were offroading. *:-)*
A good idea would have been to put them on at a slight inward angle, that way it would have had way more grip while turning. Great fun video still ! You guys do some crazy stuff hahaha!
You guys may have invented a new ice driving sport! A couple more plates welded on the outside of the rims may hold the skate better and make them last longer. The concept is sort of similar to a variation of track racing I've seen called "skid-plate racing" where the rear wheels on a front wheel drive car are replaced with wheels with flat plates welded to them and the cars slide in a drift mode as they go around the track. Some tracks are figure eights for extra craziness. LBTV channel on RU-vid has skid-plate races as well as demolition derbies and regular races.
When i was about 12 years old. I make myself a bicycle with a skateblade. Just replaced the front wheel for a wooden block with an skate blade on it. Everybody was looking at me and laughing. Big fun .
Skates usually are used in angle for pushing force and to turn, so maybe add little camber on each side and add few more blades to decrease ground pressure giving it more surface area?
Now I'm wondering how cross-country skis would drive... well, you'd probably have to use a blade from leaf springs to be strong enough. Probably do better when it hits snow!
@@SiR2Dean Though those are short ones and have much higher ground pressure than skates what dig in deep to ice. Adding several skate blades should lower the ground pressure and give more grip.
You guys should try putting skis on the front wheels I've seen it done but it will last longer if you make it out of steel and two piecesof small square stock running down the bottom of it to act as a guide like the ice skate blades
Weld a strip of steel (just like the skates steel) but all round the wheel, and if you add some small teeth to it to add grip for braking and in general, this way the wheel will have way more chance to stay straight for longer, it does not need to be as high as the skates were. but it has to bee hardened steel, might as well use bigger rims to get a more balanced ride.
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It doesn't look like they sharpened the skates before attaching them to the rims. I wonder if that would have helped a tiny amount with the understeer?
Ice skates need to be leaned over to achieve any kind of traction. This is a sound concept There just needs to be some lean on the front rims when you turn the wheel
Would wide [very wide ] ski's do a better job ???? I would try it myself but living down under in Australia very little ice/snow and it is summer now with plus 40 C degrees plus the odd bush fires .
Do they even sell skis in Australia? O_o Your guys' super wimpy excuse for "mountains" don't look to be anywhere NEAR tall enough to support winter sports. Let alone in Australia's climate. New Zealand got all the good stuff on that front, lol.
Can you remove 2 pistons and the rods from an engine, somehow be balanced, isolate the area between the combustion chamber and crankcase see if is goana work.
