motorcycle engine

[sylster]

New to the forum and got a question. Could a motorcycle engine be swapped in? I mean...with all the wrecks out there...engines are somewaht abundant and a gsxr1000 or zx12 or R1 or hayabusa engine WOULD ROCK! in these. I mean...if you wanted to...could you?


Sylvain

[Mighty Milt]

http://www.minitrucktalk.com/search.php

[sylster]

that's kinda rude man....could of just said it's been asked....but that way....just rude.

S.

[Mighty Milt]

not being rude, just giving you a good place to start.

here's another good read

[sylster]

thanks.....but can't find anything about that kind of swap....i'm thinking if they can put a gsxr1300 in a smart...it can be done...with these trucks....


huhm....search some more I will...


S.

[Mighty Milt]

quaife

[larryn2o]

if the bike motor has a drive shaft , it would be easy.
here's one in a Metro . they did it with a chain drive .

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/6...ered_56409.htm

[Hasenwerk]

Originally Posted by larryn2o

if the bike motor has a drive shaft , it would be easy.
here's one in a Metro . they did it with a chain drive .

Can you say BMW? The K series engines would be totally fantastic in a small truck like this!

[Colin]

Horizontally-opposed engine from a Goldwing might fit well under the box of a mid-engine mini (Suzuki/Daihatsu/Mitsubishi/Mazda). They're shaft drive.

Only bummer would be not having reverse.

[Mighty Milt]

some of the goldwings did have reverse

[Colin]

Well there you have it... GL1800 swap!

The shifter handle would be awesome... just push/pull, like a crashbox.

[Hasenwerk]

Originally Posted by Colin

Horizontally-opposed engine from a Goldwing might fit well under the box of a mid-engine mini (Suzuki/Daihatsu/Mitsubishi/Mazda). They're shaft drive.

Only bummer would be not having reverse.

The Russian made Ural has a reverse gear as well - not so hard to find in the motorcycle world.

[Colin]

Ooooh yeah, the nifty 2WD Urals. Didn't even think of those.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going over to ADVrider.com to brush up on my sweet adventure-touring bikes.

[Badgerland]

Reviving this older post just because this concept has stayed fresh in my mind. I can't believe one of us in the U.S. or CN hasn't pulled this off yet.

I did some more scouring of the the scattered information that's posted across the net on bike engines fabricated into cars, etc.

I ran across an interesting tidbit about several factory concept vehicles powered by current motorcycle production engines...

Honda Gold Wing Powered GRX


When the corporate designers go to work on a motorcycle powered car you get a concept like this, the GRX, utilizing the 1500cc flat six originally used in the Gold Wing. This has been around for a while though Honda doesn’t seem inclined to actually produce it. Nice looking concept, though.

It's interesting how this was talked about with two main advantages:

• Shaft drive
• Trans with Reverse

Suzuki GSX-R/4


Here’s one that Suzuki put together for the show circuit a couple of years ago, powered by the superb Hayabusa engine. It’s 1400 pounds of sheer fun (sound familiar?), at least it could be but it never went beyond the concept stage. It sits on 20 inch wheels and had all sorts of neat electronic wizardry. They could probably sell a ton of these if they ever produced them and breathless rumors to that effect continue to surface. We’ll see, but don’t count on it.

This is really what I'm leaning towards in a project - a Busa powered Carry (keep it in the Zuki family). A 1300 CarryBusa! I am just aching to get a project together like this once the right 2WD project truck comes along. It's been done overseas multiple times and there's really no reason why its not possible - just engineering issues to address and figure out. I would want to tackle a 2WD build before even considering a 4WD option because of the driveline and seriously increased stresses on the front shafts/CV's/etc.
These are just some of the bigger issues discussed:

• Driveline / Reverse issues / Chain Drive / Ratios (all CAN currently be addressed but looking for economical solution)
• Oil delivery - dry sump seems best option
• Obvious fabricating design work but a mini truck seems the perfect vehicle dimensions-wise

Obviously this just scratches the surface of everything that will have to be addressed as a completely custom build. But what a truck-load of fun this would be and would "most-likely" be able to be registered for road use in the U.S. as a bonus falling under the home-built category!

[greg0187]

I've been waiting for someone to do it. Guys are putting bike engines in their Rhinos. 2WD/4WD HI/LO Reverse. Not sure how their pulling that off.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...42839230093531