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Title: Bike engined cars Post by: Rocket Ron on November 09, 2015, 21:16:55 pm Anyone have one or had one ?
What do or did you think of it, was it fun or ?? Regards Ron Title: Re: Bike engined cars Post by: mg on November 10, 2015, 17:35:32 pm I had one but it was not street legal.
Using the Bike trans you might miss not having a reverse gear. This Thunder Roadster has the Hayabusa engine and stock sequential bike trans. 11k rpm and a sequential trans is a hoot and you can get the experience affordably for around $10k. Video of the bike motor buzzing along... https://youtu.be/TzdZ2nPU40k?t=10m37s Title: Re: Bike engined cars Post by: Berger on November 10, 2015, 19:30:44 pm one extreme in the making, sorry Norwegian language only
http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php/topic,55074.0.html (http://gatebil.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/oms_bw_007.jpg) Title: Re: Bike engined cars Post by: Rocket Ron on November 10, 2015, 23:20:56 pm I had one but it was not street legal. Using the Bike trans you might miss not having a reverse gear. This Thunder Roadster has the Hayabusa engine and stock sequential bike trans. 11k rpm and a sequential trans is a hoot and you can get the experience affordably for around $10k. Video of the bike motor buzzing along... https://youtu.be/TzdZ2nPU40k?t=10m37s Thanks for the video very cool one extreme in the making, sorry Norwegian language only http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php/topic,55074.0.html (http://gatebil.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/oms_bw_007.jpg) Couldn't understand a word but pictures speak a thousand words, very cool thread. Surprised he went for a bug as most builds are based on smaller lighter cars My thinking is that there would to be at least a 100kg saving in overall weight in a like for like vw power plant versus bike powered car where both are about the 200 hp mark. Picking the right base car I think a 450 kg 200hp car could be achieved. I have a small bodied project car with a tube chassis that I bought on the strength of a few pictures that is on the way and will assess which way to go when it lands, but very temped by the bike option if only for something a bit different. Regards Ron |