Something A Little Crazy!!!

Hey everyone i want to go abit mad engine wise with my cabby, i was thinking over the next year or so sourcing the parts needed and the guidance needed to fit 2 bike engines into my clipper,
Has this ever been done and if so can anyone start me off with what i need to do or is there any guide i can follow etc… and also some engine ideas what bikes would you get them from?
Links to threads where its been done before with a step by step guide with pics would be amazing lol

cheers

jay

Transverse or in line?

put a post on this forum http://www.yorkshiredales.uk.net/

theres plenty of grasser cars running twin bike engines around

somebody on there should be able to point you in the right direction  :wink:

JayClipperCabrio said

 Has this ever been done and if so can anyone start me off with what i need

Two bike engines…….

Depends on what type of power you are after and how much money you want to be spending..

p.s heard that bike engines in a car need alot of tlc and servicing??

Rich

Richy8v said

JayClipperCabrio said

 Has this ever been done and if so can anyone start me off with what i need

Two bike engines…….

Depends on what type of power you are after and how much money you want to be spending..

p.s heard that bike engines in a car need alot of tlc and servicing??

Rich

Good luck with that mate

there isa van running a hayabusa engine

But bikes are very highly strung, a lot of pwer gained from hi-revving small engines, but that pushing little weight…

What they were deisgend to do!!

Your cabby even stripped down witha  bike engine is still going to be pushing around 700 kgs!!

So, lets take my old R1 for example, 1000cc 160bhp at crank,
Red line 11000 rpm, serviced every 1500 miles, major service every 3000 miles!!
But it only weight 162 KGS so didn't really need much torque

For a car and cars weigth you'll need less BHP  but more torque.. wont be that quick really!
So with 2 bike engines, let say you use kawasaki ZX12r or its newer zx1400

thats a 1.4 engine, that delivers 170+bhp with a bit more torque, use 2 of them with a suitable enough and torquey enough gearbox, it'll be a 2.8 lts engine and probably only see 300bhp..  :dontknow:

pure speculation tho

As a biker the power of bikes should stay there!!

Would cost a lot to build and maintain, plus servicing very regular and notthat driveable as a daily

you'd better off either dropping in a VR6 and having loads of torque or going down 20v route!

interested to see what you find tho

yeah can see your point, had a chat with a guy from z-cars in hull and he advised me to go for a 20vt out of either a v-dub or a volvo 2.0T as the volvo is a complete alloy block so lighter but instead of mounting it in the front they would build a cage for it and have it at the rear and would be rear wheel drive which should be fun

still on the hunt, i just want to do somethin a little mad and different but be quite reliable at the same time and see your point how it might not be.

they quoted me around ?12,000 for a hayabusa 1.3 turbo conversion fully done and ?5,000 - ?6,000 for the rear engined v-dub or volvo turbo conversions.

there is a grass tracker that a mate of min used to race against,

he ran 2 busa engines. he cleaned up the trophies.

my mate ran a 2.9 granada v6 and can second every time.

differance was the busa's cost the gezza ?16K

the granada was ?300.