RE: Driven: bike-engined Fiat 126 Bis
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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
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3561146.htm
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.
All that aside this is rather a bonkers little machine, love it.
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!
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!
Great to see people doing projects like this, but £10k
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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. 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
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.
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