Highbrid Yamaha - The TZ bit
I posted the image above in closing weeks of 2017 on twitter to thank some sponsors and more importantly; to introduce my next stage of this project... ...Enter the Yamaha TZ chassis. Mounting the engine I have already spoken in depth about the engine in another blog entry so I wont dwell on the hows and whys here. I didn't have a TZ engine for my TZ chassis so the RD lump, in whatever guise it found itself, was going in this chassis. To make this work, some fabricating and welding of brackets would be required and seeing as Andy Green had the exact same plan with one of his TZ chassis, we decided to do the job together at his garage. The RD***LC engine cases we were using would fit the front engine mounts with simple spacers, the back is the area we are interested in. The TZ rear mount is far too small and in the wrong place so we lopped them off (we are working two cassis remember) and cleaned the area up for welding. Some wide box section was then cut to a short