Mr. T Tony Andrews Kent Island, Maryland (153 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 03:59PM Main British Car: '75 mgb, '74 grille, morspeed bumpers Rover 3.9 |
Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!
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Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
Re: Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!
Tony, if it has lumps in it it's not drool! ;-)
Neat design but a bit useless for most LBCs, just not enough torque to make it a real viable street engine. Maybe in a Locost, but even in a Midget it would need some really low gearing to pull the weight. |
427ZA Ian Metcalf Milton Keynes, UK (36 posts) Registered: 08/15/2009 12:57PM Main British Car: 1955 MG Magnette 427ci Chevy |
Re: Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!
I know I'm dragging this thread up from the depths of the forum but, by coincidence, I've just been reading about this very engine over on the Landspeed forum.
There's an Australian team that want to use this engine in a motorcycle streamliner but it's caused a huge debate as to wheteher or not it's actually still a motorcycle engine or if it's purely for cars...it's become a very heated and contentious debate. The SCTA have ruled that it will count as a motorcycle engine even though it won't actually fit in one purely on the basis that the majority of the internal components are Hyabusa....it's effectively two engines bolted together. Personally, if I had the money, I'd be fitting it in something like a replica lightweight EX186 or something along those lines. |
hoffbug Tony Hoffer Minnesota (323 posts) Registered: 10/15/2007 05:25PM Main British Car: Olds 215 EFI |
Re: Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!
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roverman Art Gertz Winchester, CA. (3188 posts) Registered: 04/24/2009 11:02AM Main British Car: 74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L |
Re: Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!
Ok, so it's waay beyond burning rice, but I looked at the animation, and the flywheel spins opposite of crank? Is this part of the patent? I'm droolin, but itsa "age" thing. At hp-per-$, I have no Yen for this, roverman.
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