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I assume its gonna be proper stripped inside to make it light enough for an ickle bike engine with no torque? Or am i ignorant to just how insanely powerful the Hayabusa engines are?!?
Nippy white cup
I think that engine is one of the more torquey (is that a word or a place
) bike engines
Ziel Nurburgring
Personally, the amount of cash it would cost to put that engine in the car would be prohibitive. Changing all the linkages etc, to much effort for an ok result. The engines are the Mac Daddies on a bike, but in a car the weight will mean it would be no where near as good.
Has anyone tried putting a Laguna V6 in the front of thier clio, or strapping on a Supercharger to a valver/Williams engine. Im sure, those would shoe horn in. 1 wheel drive to two, just cant see the how the tranny loss would out weight the benefit......
STICKER TWONK
ClioSport Club Member
Golf GTi DSG
Doubt youd fit a 3.0 v6 out a lag or some other powerful thing like a 21T lump in the front of a Clio without chopping the chassis up. Said this on RSC many a time, but get a 21T lump and lob it in the back of a Clio, turbo charged 2 litre 8 valve rwd fun!!!! Itd be mad, easily tuned and extremly dangerous to drive in the wet!
Weight will be a major issue, the 7 is fully lightened, with carbon fibre everywhere, but it seriously shifts! So many kit car companies do the bike engined versions of their cars that finding parts shouldnt be an issue! Gunna be interesting to see how you plan to convert the clio to rear wheel drive! Good luck with the build, Im getting a headache just thinking about it!
How about a Laguna V6 in the back of a Clio!
Ziel Nurburgring
What about a R5 lump and get a couple of huge garretts on it? What ever you do, the new motah would have to have RWD. You never move anywhere with FWD.
Oh, if you aint got anything to do chech this out......
http://www.regal-shop.co.uk/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=4571http://www.regal-shop.co.uk/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=4571
I hate the things, and no idea how they did it.
A 172 2.0 got........172 odd bhp. I know the bike engine would be a lot lighter but im not sure whether the rest of the car would be light enough to reap the benefits. It would be fast but you have to keep the revs high. Bike engines are a lot peakier because of having a broader rev range. Gearings gonna be critical.
What about turboing it?. Anything up to 330bhp can be had.
Was just talking to Tom about it..if the clio weighed around 800kg it would have approx 218bhp/ton, a hefty increase over a Clio Cups 170ish per ton. However, as mentioned torques the problem and i would agree with Paul, strap on a turbo, you wouldnt be the first by a long shot so shouldnt be too much of a problem??
-Rob
yes it is an issue as a reversing box adds weight and isnt the best thing to have in the drive train its a weak point also they aint cheap
erm and if you prop drive it then you have to find a rear axel that will fit and also find the correct ratio diff
gearbox and clutch well it weighs more than a 7 style car so its a lot more straign on the gears and the clutch will just burn up
Sounds like you might as well source yourself a megabusa engine, g/box and running gear.
Then turbo it.
check this mk2 escort bike engined weapon http://www.situne.nowww.situne.no it doesnt seem to have any weight issues....
Is this thing gonna be just for thrashing up the strip or are you seriously thinking about using it as a road car? I guess youll be going for perspex windows, plastic panels (if theyre even available) to keep the weight down. I agree with one of the comments about the engine, either strap a blower to the hayabusa engine, or look at fitting two in the car. Obviously this would require a fair amount of thought, but it has been done in the past.
Oh and good luck! I wouldnt even know where to start on fitting a bike engine into a car!
Please say your going to turbo the engine there a company on the net which sells the kits to get somehting like 440hp out of them at between 8 and 12k or somehting like that. I will have a look for the website address when I get home.
Any chance of a step my step guide to how to do the engine conversion? Would be a interesting read.
How about a twin engined turboed Clio Hayabusa thats even more of a challenger and would be a shockingly fast car on the road with 900 or so HP
EDD
Nippy white cup
I dont think they are not planning spending too much, just something to fettle with over winter.
the plan is to cut the rear floor pan out of the car and
fabricate a subframe out of steel then mount the engine
into the subframe and bolt the subframe into the rear
of the car. we have a sierra cosworth rear axle with
a slip diff and all the discs and calipers. you can buy
an adaptor to attach to the main drive off the hayabusa
g/box so we can attach a propshaft onto it and run it
straight to the rear axle. all this will be built into
the rear subframe so you can hoist it in and out in under
1 hour. as for the gear change its dead simple - if you
know how a bike gear box works its just a case off
extending the shifter by about 5 foot and mounting it
vertically in the cockpit. the 1.2 engine and box is
coming out along with the dash and we aim to get the
weight down to about 450 kg ( and it will be road legal )
its dead easy to do and will cost about 3 grand including
the car.
Youz are all mental!! Gas is the way to go- £500 fitted for anything between 25-150bhp at the flick of a switch. You can bring back all those Knight rider-esque Turbo Boosting moments with all manner of arming toggles, microswitches, throttle switches.
Contemplating it on my Cup for sure- 50bhp progressively injected as the revs build- or so Im told
Dootchy do you not know me mate ? I won the cliosport
league this year at york dragway for the fastest clio
V6 clio with 150 bhp nos kit mate. ask around matey.
NOS is ace - but ive already blown one engine up with it
and v6 engines arent cheap. the clio hayabusa will be
fine at 180 bhp. ( 0 - 60 estimate 3.5 - 4.0 sec )
if your at donnington on sunday keep your eyes open
for a v6 with 2 polished steel bottles in the back and black
headlights.
