RE: Driven: bike-engined Fiat 126 Bis

RE: Driven: bike-engined Fiat 126 Bis

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number1nesta

57 posts

155 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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I want one. I just wouldn't be able to resist destroying BMW's and Audi's.

Bolognese

1,500 posts

223 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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I love it. Would be great to see one bombing up the road!

the_kato

392 posts

186 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Amazing! I think that's great

GarryA

4,700 posts

163 months

EDLT

15,421 posts

205 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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While it is a good idea it is far too expensive, you can get a finished bike engine kit car that is lighter, will actually be able to stop itself and has a reverse gear for £1k less:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3561146.htm

iggysport

463 posts

146 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Awesome! Voted it 5 by accident frown dam android!

Mitch2.0

198 posts

186 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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How can someone be smart enough to build this and then be dumb enough to lie about the performance figures. Anyone interesting in a car like this is clearly going to be interested in cars in general, no-one is going to believe 3.5s and 150mph, unless they're a non-car person, and therefore won't be interested in purchasing this, so why lie?

All that aside this is rather a bonkers little machine, love it.

3doorPete

9,912 posts

233 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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I like the Z-cars mini conversions - great idea in a little Fiat that starts out rear engined, but 20 year old FZR1000 lump that had a fragile clutch in a 200kg bike, let alone a 500kg+ car - not a good idea.

Stick a Hayabusa lump in it and you have a real tool that should be fairly bullet proof. Oh - an I'd want a roll cage in it!

Bisonhead

1,567 posts

188 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Utterly brilliant!

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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There was a great thread on this a few weeks ago. I'd love a go in it. It's obviously so fast that it destroys your steering technique though, and will have you crossing your hands like a novice in no time! hehe

Whiters

364 posts

238 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Love the standard trims. Glad people do this kind of thing. smile

slashley

58 posts

173 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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It looked like there was a lot of revving going on, but not much forward movement. Not 3.5 seconds.

gmh23

252 posts

179 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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angry jock said:
nuts love it!! Did toy with putting a Busa engine into my old Cappuccino....
It's sitting in my parents garage doing nothing scratchchin
That would be awesome!

I love this 126, figures may be a little optimistic but impressive nonetheless

saturnuranus

80 posts

187 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Pretty disappointing I thought. As it stands I'd take a standard 126 over this.

Blue One

463 posts

178 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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What a fabulous, mad, wonderful project come to life!


SRM355

334 posts

158 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Quality, love it!

itiejim

1,821 posts

204 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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Great to see people doing projects like this, but £10k eek

It's never going to be a great chassis, the engine is from the late 80's and the installation doesn't look great. My last BEC was a Fisher Fury with a Blackbird engine - a professional installation with more power, more gears, less weight a fantastic chassis and for £4k less.

Wolfgang Mozart

7 posts

146 months

Friday 27th January 2012
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I can remember my dad getting my little sister and me to sit in the back of one at the 1976 Earls Court Motor Show to try it out for size,it was a bit tight so he bought my mum an Allegro estate instead as a run around-I don’t know what was worse and no ‘Childline’ to phone in those days... Mind you I think it was the same year I saw 100mph on the speedo from the back seat of his Dolomite Sprint which got him off the hook.

bartselephant

23 posts

224 months

Saturday 28th January 2012
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There's a chap called Wayne Schofield who put a 'busa engine into a Cappucino. It started almost as a thought experiment, that got real, and then seriously real.

The first clip is in-car footage from a trackday at Donnington, to see what the car would do (at 1 min 18, he catches and passes some 7's. The second clip is from a race he entered at Mallory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNgfUxbyNUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZuPMAPZto


I don't think he usually involves himself in any of the oily bits, as he does the electrical and programming side for a living. This car gives me serious envy!


Umi

EDLT

15,421 posts

205 months

Saturday 28th January 2012
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bartselephant said:
There's a chap called Wayne Schofield who put a 'busa engine into a Cappucino. It started almost as a thought experiment, that got real, and then seriously real.

The first clip is in-car footage from a trackday at Donnington, to see what the car would do (at 1 min 18, he catches and passes some 7's. The second clip is from a race he entered at Mallory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNgfUxbyNUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZuPMAPZto


I don't think he usually involves himself in any of the oily bits, as he does the electrical and programming side for a living. This car gives me serious envy!


Umi
That is more custom-made racer than it is a Cappuccino, it even has the suspension from an A1GP car.

Also I think the orange Mazda 323 behind the Suzuki in the second video is this one:


Which was Mazda's attempt at a BTCC car.