How come u dont see them about? Honda engines are basicaly bullet proof. easy to tune and have some of the highest BHP per Litter of any standard
car, well cheap standard car anyway
D16a6 - 109bhp (civics and rovers)
D16a8 - 127bhp (civics and rover GTIs)
B16 - 150-160bhp
And there just the 1.6L engines, there are also 1.8 and 2.0. and the 2.2 from the prelude, and there are versions of that in standard car that will
hit 217 out the box.
Plus there so cheap. i found a guy i know a d16a8 (127bhp) for 40.00, replaced his old engine and is still running 2 years later!
Plus they will rev freely to about 8k
So i was just wundering what we dont see them in kit cars
John
Mainly 'cos they spin the wrong way!
(newer ones may be diffeent though!)
true - many of the honda motors would cause the car to do 100mph backwards
Mine has a Honda engine 
honda bike engines are used in kitcars (eg blade and blackbird pan european and cbr1000 and sp2 v-twin).
honda car engines have been used from s2000/civic type-r onwards as these rotate the correct way iirc.
Ned.
I know of a 2.2 Prelude engine in a Mojo2, but of course the engine is in the back and i think transverse mounted so presumably spins the correct way for it. In this car the gear linkage was the challenge.
All the V6s spin the right way
Liam
this was a pretty nice caterham with the late ctr engine in it...
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/97648.htm
S2000 engine (whatever that one is)
http://www.hondarush.com/index.htm
http://forum.rushowners.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=759&highlight=honda+powered
[Edited on 27/9/06 by mcerd1]
As most of us already know Chris Masons' Indy had an S2000 engine in it!!!
A number of videos are HERE
Steve
[Edited on 27-9-06 by Hellfire]
Ah so there are a few around then
quote:
Originally posted by JackNco
Ah so there are a few around then
Hi we built a westfield to run a honda prelude 2.2 engine before the prelude was available in the uk. Engine was not standard and producing 411bhp @
11.000rpm but verry unreliable so changed for a works btcc vx with 300bhp. All this was about 17-18 years ago great fun but bl**dy expensive.
cheers matt
bloddy hell! that sounds mad!
A friend suggested that the diff be turned unpside down to get it to spin the wheels the right way, would that work or would it be all wrong due to
the helicoils meshing the wrong way etc?
you guessed it, mesh the wrong way will wear the diff out very fast and make a horrid noise, not a good solution, plus the gearbox with be thrusting
the wrong way too.
[Edited on 29/9/06 by NS Dev]