New engine option for RWD rally cars

Dazed_Driver Wrote:
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if I could do it again, I'd be building a golf,
> focus, or CRX.
>

Man grass is always greener. If I were to be doing it again, I'd be going RWD, probably a E36 or Volvo.......

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-Jason

Picked the car up from getting its shiny new header today...ready for the turbo soon.

drool

I'm loving how the 4age sounds at 8k. I can't wait to hear this set up. In the woods or not.

You continue to impress and inspire Tim. Keep it up

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Zap zap my ass...

Nice looking header. Whats the dogbone shaped fabricated tube at the end of the head?

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Dazed_Driver Wrote:
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> Nice looking header. Whats the dogbone shaped
> fabricated tube at the end of the head?
>
> Feisty Peacock?

That's part of the unfinished mounting of the engine. It's also going to be part of holding up the twin-scroll Mitsubishi turbo Dave wants on the car. That's why the primary tube pairing looks so weird.

This seems like a no duh idea, I bet there's lots of people wondering why they hadn't thought of this before. Seems like the best way to solve the torque, rpm, & reverse problem.

You simply can't do a comparable automotive engine that light for that money.

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Andrew M
Onterrible
30ish

I'm still wiggin out about how the hp and tq curves are that much higher than the miotter ones....no wonder bigbore crotchrockets are so goddamn fast.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

Well, for perspective, the 160-odd HP 1000cc in a ZX-10R has a bore twice as big as its stroke, or in other words it has room for valves like most 2-liter car engines. It also has something like 13:1 compression, quad 48mm throttle bodies, staged injection, and some sort of funky variable-length header or something like that, 'cause what you need in a 1-liter sub-400lb bike is more low end torque...

I don't know much about the Hayabusa engine.

What I am seeing is, this is an adapter for this little 1300cc to any trans that takes a Mazda B-engine.

You know what else takes a B-engine? Festivas and Aspires.

I'm thinking giggle factory.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2010 02:06AM by Pete.

She's SCREEEMIN fer it!

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

Tim Taylor Wrote:
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> With the two piece construction of the adapter I
> can make any bell-housing adapter bolt to any
> transmission by changing that and the removable
> crank snout on our main shaft. The next two on
> the list after the Mazda transmission are VW bus
> transaxle for the sand rail set and Type 9 for the
> Lotus 7 replica crowd.

Great target markets, Type 9 is used primarily by the guys in England, T5 would be the way to go on this side of the ocean.

t

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Someone put a BUSA motor in this!!



It's 4 feet wide and weighs 650 lbs.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270615515754&viewitem=

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Michael LeCompte

So Tim....if you did VW then I could convert my FV over to something totally insane to drive?

heymagic Wrote:
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> So Tim....if you did VW then I could convert my FV
> over to something totally insane to drive?

New class - Formula 'Busa

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heymagic Wrote:
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> So Tim....if you did VW then I could convert my FV
> over to something totally insane to drive?

Yes, and it's just when, not if we do a VW transaxle adapter. It costs us about $700 out of pocket for parts/scanning on each new application we plan to do. If you have a spare engine and transmission case you want to let us measure I can move it up the list. Michel is already planning to bring by a Golf transmission to see if it will clear the engine case. Lots of high RPM stupidity in the works...