Bike engined cars

[Rocket Ron]

Anyone have one or had one ?

What do or did you think of it, was it fun or  ??


Regards Ron

[mg]

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

[Berger]

one extreme in the making, sorry Norwegian language only
http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php/topic,55074.0.html

[Rocket Ron]

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

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