serendipity123
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 02:01 PM |
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bike power
hi i'm new so be nice. i have a robin hood rhm1000 and a yam fzr1000 can anyone help with advice and pics to get me started, i was going to
buy a ford siera diff and etc and prop and mate them to the engine, if anyone on here has done anything like this please help, pics advice etc.
graeme lincs
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mookaloid
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 02:35 PM |
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I'm not sure a bike engined Robin Hood is such a good idea.
The Robin Hood is a heavy car and as such could be hard work for a bike engine.
Not sure what a RHM1000 is but doesn't it already have a sierra diff?
If you want a BEC but don't want to build one from scratch, then why not buy an unfinished locost (more light weight) and put your bike engine
in that?
Cheers
Mark
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smart51
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 02:58 PM |
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many companies will sell you a prop shaft adapter for your bike. It bolts onto the spline that the sprocket went on. This will bolt onto a
propshaft. A sierra propshaft will need to be modified for use with a Robin Hood. Plenty of places will do this for you. Get a copy of a kit car
magazine and look through the small ads.
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serendipity123
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 03:06 PM |
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bike power
rhm 1000 was a prototype from rhe, its basicly the same as a 7 but based on a metro, so the front of a metro in the back, i've taken that all
out as i cant get my head around sorting the gears out also who wants a 1275cc hood and bought a bike engine and going to put it back as normal so its
quite a lot smaller than a standard robin 7
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NS Dev
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 03:20 PM |
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............so the car was originally transverse rear-mid engined, with an A-series between the rear wheels??
If this is the case, then as long as you don't mind chain drive your job is pretty easy. Mount the bike engine in front of the axle line, take a
chain drive off the std drive sprocket and use it to drive a sprocket bolted to the crownwheel of an Escort MK2 (English axle type ) limited slip
diff, with the holes in the diff welded up and the diff filled with grease. Mount the diff on two plummer block bearings and make a pair of drive
adaptors to take the drive from the diff output splines to the sierra 6 bolt drive flanges, and use sierra driveshafts to transfer the drive to sierra
hubs on the rear arms.
Z-cars and GB engineering make most of the bits needed for the above job, it's very commonplace in autograss.
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serendipity123
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 03:27 PM |
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well i've read it i'll print it and i'll try and work it out later over a coffee and a beer, you guys are great, if anyone has some
pics of bike to car transplant please email me at graemecapps@tiscali.co.uk
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mookaloid
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| posted on 15/8/05 at 07:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by serendipity123
rhm 1000 was a prototype from rhe, its basicly the same as a 7 but based on a metro, so the front of a metro in the back, i've taken that all
out as i cant get my head around sorting the gears out also who wants a 1275cc hood and bought a bike engine and going to put it back as normal so its
quite a lot smaller than a standard robin 7
OK now I see
Well good luck with it
Cheers
Mark
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NS Dev
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 09:52 AM |
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This may help,
Here is the drive arrangement, chain drive to limited slip diff, with inboard brakes and sierra driveshafts:
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