I've seen it in a Hot Rod mag a few years back, can't remember what type of
car it was though.
Larry Miller
lmiller2@airmail.net
98 Dodge Neon R/T
Eibach, QuickPipe, GTS, V-Tech, Mobil 1
N.E. #1440
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Linnhoff <eric10mm@qni.com>
To: Gulliver <gulliver@peterboro.net>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Motorcycle FWD
> >Has anyone transplanted a Motorcycle or Snowmobile engine into a FWD
> Car
> >ie: mini, swift, metro etc.
> >
> >How did it work ??
> >
> >What kind of problems encountered ??
> >
> >Pete Gulliver
> ===========================
> I would guess the main problem/drawback to be a lack of torque from the
> motorcycle engine.
>
> Unless you get a killer Yamaha V-Max motor. ;^)
>
> You'd probably have a hard time mating any kind of car transmisison to
> the motorcycle engine and I'm sure the cycle tranny wouldn't live long
> under the stresses of a car's weight. But the sequential shift tranny
> would be kinda neat.
>
> It'd be far cheaper and easier to buy a used RX-7 rotory motor and
> tranny. In my opinion.
>
> See you on course.
>
> Eric Linnhoff in KC
> #69DS TLS #13
> '98 Neon R/T
> <eric10mm@qni.com>
>
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> but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."
>
> Benjamin Franklin:
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> safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
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