Okay, this is sick

[Spectatohead]

http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/1562069.htm

A 2.8 litre V8 that weighs 200 lbs and puts out 400 hp?

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[Beans]

The only proper thing to do with two bikes, scrap them, weld the engines together and you have a brilliant little V8 [:D]

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[mb4tim]

and properly expensive


-Tim
http://www.morSpeedPerformance.com

[Spectatohead]

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Yeah, but don't our cars deserve a $33,000 engine? [:D]

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[trekcarbonboy]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Spectatohead</i>
Yeah, but don't our cars deserve a $33,000 engine? [:D]
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NO! But their owners do![:D]

Craig '75 2.0 FHC

[Hasbeen]

Looks really nice, love how small the cylinder block is.

This is what Daimler did, when they built their V8 Dart/SP250 engine, based on a bike engine. What a pity the car was not a bit prettier.

I'm not sure now if it was a production version, or only a prototype I saw pictures of, running around with 8 Amal [motor bike] carbs attached. Now that would have tested some of us who fancy ourselves as carby tuners.

Interestingly, when Jag inherited the thing with Daimler they had to kill the it off, as it made the XK engines look, & perform, a bit like an old side valve in comparison.

Funny now to think that the Jag XK engines were once considered so exotic that only specialists even touched them.

Hasbeen

[Marko]

Radical does one too.

http://www.radicalperformanceengines.com/engines/

3.2L 88kg of engine = 500hp.

If a regular car had X hours of engineering time invested in its design.

Motorcycles have atleast 10X hours if not more.

If you look at an motorcycle engine block or any other components you will see that everything is as thin as it can be, there 's no material where it shoudnt be. Everything is made to minimum weight and volume possible. Not to mention materials used.

[FI Spyder]

The local Chemainus Caterham manufacturer (for Canada) uses the 4 cylinder Suzuki engine (mentioned in Marko's link) in it's cars. His own car is a supercharged one with something like 360 hp. In 2009 he did a speed test at the Cassidy airport and did 109 mph (in reverse). Could have gone faster but the runway was wet.



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[mb4tim]

They can stuff a Hayabusa motor into a Smart car... a beast.

-Tim
http://www.morSpeedPerformance.com

[grndsm]

I do not know why you need to go that exotic.

Modern turbo 4 bangers can easily make 300-800 hp and they are around 250lbs...

Leon
'94 Eagle Talon AWD Turbo 613whp <powered by Mitsu 4G63T
'80 TR7 Spyder GS-T <undergoing Mitsu 4G63T transplant
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2472999

[Marko]

that engine is N/A , and there's still room for a forced induction device on it [}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]


Stock hayabusa's with a turbo produce 500 hp on low boost.


Not to mention, the layout and volume of that engine is much better for vehicles it is intended for.

+ it has some nice toys that come stock with it like dry sump.

not to mention that that engine can continously produce those 500 hp.

modern turbo 4 bangers (are usualy 2 litre) would overheat at 500+ hp at race pace.