Morris Minor Owners Club

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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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

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

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

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

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

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