nathanharris1987
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:01 PM |
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bike engined tin tops
I know these Have been done but im looking at my corsa from outside the window thinking about what i could do with it appart from drive it and be
bored in it.
Does anybody know about throwing bike engines into tin tops? Ive seen there are plenty of mid engine mejobbys chain driven to a dif for when you have
the engine in sideways but has anyone put one in the front of a car?
nath
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:26 PM |
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Yep Ford did it. The Ka and the Fiesta with the 1250 engine. This unit is/was a japanese motor bike engine originally.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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marmot0
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:32 PM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvm5HbjfSYw
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nathanharris1987
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:43 PM |
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im a looking its hard work,
marmot, thats a rear wheel driver im trying to find somthing mounted sideways for front wheel drive
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GregSL75
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:47 PM |
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There's a mini kit:
http://www.pro-motive.co.uk/R1KitInfo.html
I think someone has done a saxo / 106 kit too from memory.
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marmot0
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 02:47 PM |
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Just drive it in reverse
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mad-butcher
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 03:29 PM |
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Leave the corsa bog standard and graft a 2lt cavalier motor in there,
Tony
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jacko
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 03:54 PM |
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Look up ZCARS
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Omni
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 03:58 PM |
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SWEET!!! Hayabusa Turbo Golf Mark 1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=ZP8fkWARVw8
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CaptainJosh
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 03:59 PM |
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quote:
Yep Ford did it. The Ka and the Fiesta with the 1250 engine. This unit is/was a japanese motor bike engine originally.
Not true. It was made by yamaha but nothing close to a bike engine.
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Omni
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 04:00 PM |
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Here you go
Make a front wheel drive a rear wheel drive 
http://www.hrengineering.net/
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coozer
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 06:03 PM |
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There was a VW Derby (i think) in one of the mags, think it was PPC with a bike engine at the front driving the rear wheels. And a Mini in the same
mag driving the front wheels via a chain driven diff.
I want to RWD a Saxo for my next project and thinking of a bike engine for it. There's aguy on the Saxo forum doing it, sure he post's
here as well.
Get a small light hot hatch and install teh same we do into 7's and you'll have a real giggle machine.
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24vseven
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 07:50 PM |
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theres a fiesta mk2 on ebay bike engine in the back at the moment
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 1/11/08 at 10:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Omni
Here you go
Make a front wheel drive a rear wheel drive
http://www.hrengineering.net/
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My mate's got a Corsa round at his at the moment that he's doing some work on for someone. It's had the rear floor chopped out and
is having rear arms and engine cradle etc fab'd. It will have a transverse XE in the back.
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nathanharris1987
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| posted on 2/11/08 at 11:10 AM |
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i know its a weird one, would be better off for rwd. in all honesty i dont think id get the weight down enough in the corsa enough to make it really
worth while appart from having a hi reving engine.
might look into a 2lt or 1.8t,
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woodster
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| posted on 3/11/08 at 10:24 AM |
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CORSAs with bike engines enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYs-dRiqRIA
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woodster
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| posted on 3/11/08 at 10:26 AM |
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p.s and with reverse ...... turn the volume up 
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Jubal
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| posted on 3/11/08 at 11:34 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mad-butcher
Leave the corsa bog standard and graft a 2lt cavalier motor in there,
Tony
Do this. We were once out to get petrol at a trackday in a mate's 535 (V8) and a corsa pulled alongside on a dual carriageway. My mate was all
revved up so he gunned it...and the corsa driver then stuck his foot down. All we could do was watch him go. Extremely good power to weight. He showed
up a bit later at the track and it was a standard 2ltr lump in there.
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 5/11/08 at 03:01 PM |
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I had an experience with a fully chavved Corsa the other evening. I'm quite proud of my 204bhp but he left me behind. We both ended up parking a
couple of spaces apart in the retail park car park. It transpired that it was fitted with a C20LET putting out about 240bhp at low boost. Dialing up
the boost gives him nearly 300bhp.
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