Bike or Car Engine
Discussion
As some of you may have read i am looking seriously at buying and Lotus 7 type car, i like allot the Tiger and MK indy.
Now i need to know which enginer type to go with. What are the benfits and draw backs of having either a bike engine or car engine. Also which is the best of each?
Also do the bike engine cars come with reverse???
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Now i need to know which enginer type to go with. What are the benfits and draw backs of having either a bike engine or car engine. Also which is the best of each?
Also do the bike engine cars come with reverse???
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DamienCBR,
There's a whole bunch of variables here, only one of which is: what do you want it for (track or road)? As a very generalised generalisation, bike engines are great for track (where you can keep them in the narrow power band) but too much like hard work to be fun on the road, esp in town (eg. you have to rev the nuts off them to pull away from the lights). That's just MHO and it's really down to personal preference...
There's a whole bunch of variables here, only one of which is: what do you want it for (track or road)? As a very generalised generalisation, bike engines are great for track (where you can keep them in the narrow power band) but too much like hard work to be fun on the road, esp in town (eg. you have to rev the nuts off them to pull away from the lights). That's just MHO and it's really down to personal preference...
As Locoblade says, do a search on this forum. This topic has been discussed fairly comprehensively! 
Probably fair to say that bike engine fanatics and car engine fanatics will never agree on which is best.
If you need to ask the question, you are probably better off sticking to a car engine.
Probably fair to say that bike engine fanatics and car engine fanatics will never agree on which is best.
If you need to ask the question, you are probably better off sticking to a car engine.
LotusNova said:
As a very generalised generalisation, bike engines are great for track (where you can keep them in the narrow power band) but too much like hard work to be fun on the road, esp in town (eg. you have to rev the nuts off them to pull away from the lights) . . .
You say that like it's a bad thing
And (as I'm sure you know) a Hayabusa, while expensive, has a decently wide power band.
To add to the indecision . . . what about a rotary ?
Damiencbr said:
i like allot the Tiger and MK indy. Now i need to know which enginer type to go with. Also do the bike engine cars come with reverse???
If you're going for a Tiger, you can only really fit a bike engine into an Avon or a B/R6. The Cat/Supercat or Super Six are too heavy. And usually BECs don't come with a reverse, you have to buy a sort of transfer box that enables a reverse to be selected.
....or fit an electric reverse (usually an adapted starter motor) which are cheaper and more reliable, or simply just push as a LOT of us do 
Oh and whenever BECs are discussed you generally get one or two people sprouting out things like bike engines don't have any torque yadda yadda yadda, but ignore it cos its tosh
Oh and whenever BECs are discussed you generally get one or two people sprouting out things like bike engines don't have any torque yadda yadda yadda, but ignore it cos its tosh
Locoblade said:
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Oh and whenever BECs are discussed you generally get one or two people sprouting out things like bike engines don't have any torque yadda yadda yadda, but ignore it cos its tosh
Oh and whenever BECs are discussed you generally get one or two people sprouting out things like bike engines don't have any torque yadda yadda yadda, but ignore it cos its tosh
spot on, driven 1000's of miles all over Britain and Europe in BEC's, this "up n down box", "rev nuts off" is like you say "utter tosh"
Then to be told you have too work em hard on track too make em go ???? So you dont work a CEC hard on track too make it go ??? Maybe thats why CECs are so slow (£ for £
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