Engine swap!

[morrisfixer]

Hi there, i know there's alot of people in moggy land uprating their engines, but has anyone thought of a bike powered morris?!!
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[BigDawgV8]

Hi,
This has been discussed here before.
Basically, the standard Minor shell is too heavy for this conversion.

BUT.......I'm sure Jonathon will be along shorty with a pic of a bike powered Moggie van?

Cheers

Martin

[jonathon]

Not yet, but one of our customers has fitted a Suzuki Hyabussa (?) motor into a 2dr saloon, and another has fitted a 600cc Honda engine. Can't wait to see what they are like, but as BDV8 says I'll post some pics when I get them

[morrisfixer]

Hi again Jonathon, surely it would be the same set up as a kit car. Plus, I've read that the hayabusa puts out I think 175bhp in standard form. If you bolt on a turbo it then pushes out 300-500bhp and I read that in extreme form of tuning you can get 700bhp. Now thats a lot from a small engine. It would be such a laugh.
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[bmcecosse]

We'll all come and watch you at Crail once you have it built!

[plastic_orange]

Hyabusa engine can produce mega power, but it needs some strengthening work done to stop it breaking it's casings (even in bikes). I've seen a few bike engined cars, but most are pretty light. As soon as you start filling your car with passengers, luggage etc etc, you need a good bit of torque to drag you around.
By the time you buy a hyabusa engine (around £2k) and do all the mods needed, you'd have been better with something like a Zetec or the more modern duratec engine (loads lighter I'm told).
Last year at Crail there were 2 hyabusa engined Westfields (or similar) - 1 was standard, and the other was turbo charged, and surprisingly they were both about the same performance on the strip. I wasn't really impressed with their times - didn't seem that quick compared to some nice V8's out there .

Pete

[tortron]

got DEEP pockets?
a Hyabusa V8 would fit well in a minor

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[charlie_morris_minor]

how much

http://www.h1v8.com/h1h2pricing.html

[ratrodmog]

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