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>> >>> I'm doing a bike engine transplant into my Sylva (kit car). >>> >>> Don't talk about it 'much' in here right enough (c:\ >> >> How's that going then, on schedule ? :) >> > > Scedule is April next year for the new season :-) > I don't actually have all the bits yet, but I fully intend doing it in a > working week once I do have everything. > Wiring scares me most, but the bloke I got the engine from has fitted a > near > identical one and his is in and running - and he lives 200 yards from > where > my car is for the engine transplant. > I'm short of a propshaft - but that can't be made until the engine is in. > > I would envisage the following.... > > Day one - Xflow out,clean up of engine bay, mounts started. > Day two - finish mounts, modify exhaust, mount clutch master cylinder, > modify clutch cable to actuate above. Measurements taken for propshaft. > Day three - cooling system, oil cooler, fuel system start wiring... > Day four - continue wiring and finish. (CalvinX's diagram should prove > invaluable), > Day five - fit propshaft, start engine. > > Note. My Sylva is taller in the bodywork than a Locost and the lowest > point > of the engine will be the well of the sump.My exhaust runs slightly higher > than this. > So - it will be done in the style of the Pat Jackson F27 - under the > engine, out the other side, turn right and onto the silencer. I see no > problem with this idea. Saves a custom manifold at 400 quid.

Q: Unless this is a shaft drive bike engine, how is going to be possible to fit a "propshaft" to the gear-box sprocket, without some sort of special 90 degree flex coupling?

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Ken
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cogs and pinions & bearing etc, held together with a custom made caseing

Reply to
bongo

Erm, quite easily.

You mount it longitudinally with a custom bell-housing.

Shaft drive bike engines are actually much harder to fit in car applications.

Reply to
SteveH

Rrrrrrrright.......

I'll let you google it for yourself.

Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

Yeah, that will be it. If you find one. let me know.

Reply to
Elder

It obviously needs a hydraulic drive system.

Reply to
SteveH

Warp drive. It's the only way.

Reply to
Pete M

Flux capacitor?

Reply to
SteveH

Too spammy, at least with a warp drive you can get the power round bends...

Reply to
Pete M

We've got a 20HP vertical V-Twin RWD ride-on lawnmower at my work.

It's not very fast, but by jingo it cuts grass.

I'm sure with the addition of some similar form of hydrostatic drive we could make Bob Sherunckle's car into an aesthetically challenging but very rev-happy grass cutter. Uglier than a Skag, faster than a Kubota on Methanol.

(Just don't let Jock near it)

Reply to
Douglas Payne

Surely you want Ethanol for such a hi end tuned motor.

Reply to
Elder

You don't think for a minute that The Elder Statesman is not familiar with methanol do you ? or, as he calls it, 'dope'...

P.S. Currently sourcing two pack polyurehtane foam. Seats, for the use of. Via a bin bag. Won't be long now...

Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

Heh I never doubted it, it's what I witnessed him do first hand with what I thought was a reasonably robust piece of grass-cutting equipment that would concern me. (c:

I'm so excited, but can it have a lawnmower attatchment?

Reply to
Douglas Payne

What about a backhoe - or a back actor as we buidling trade types call it.?

Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

Nope I smoke dope, not run engines on it. Methanol needs specialist fuel system parts to avoid reaction based failure.

Reply to
Elder

When you the f*ck have you ever run any of your heaps on methanol ? ...................Grow up and stop making yourself look a prick with your idiot Googling!

k
Reply to
Ken

Carl you minunderstand me. When I reffered to 'The Elder Statesman' I was talking about the oldest member of our car club.

73ish and still mental. Has an Austin Healey Sprite with a Toyota twin cam in it and a very weird Dutton with another even better Toyota twin cam in it.
Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

Ken wrote: Grow up and stop making yourself look a prick with your

You've got your socks mixed up again Stevens. That was *you*.

Reply to
straggle

Ken wrote: Grow up and stop making yourself look a prick with your

You've got your socks mixed up again Stevens. That was *you*.

Reply to
straggle

Sweet. I do know, now sober about Methanol being refered to as Dope.

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Elder

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