seven style car motorbike engined ???
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Hi all new to forum, have many years Motorsport behind me but not currently up to date... trying to find a new car to nurse me back to my racing days.... I like the motorbike engined seven style cars ( especially honda fireblade lol) whats out there for sale and anyone any leads on any unfinished projects or ex race series cars that arn't in retirement age.. any help or guidance be really appreciated..
Dabler
Dabler
You’d probably like my caterham 7 then.
All carbon fibre and powered by a 1200 dry sumped blackbird motor running DTA management and Jenvey throttles with an all up weight of less than 400kg ready to run....magnesium axle nose, every single item weighed and optimised! (Except me which is definitely a problem!)
All carbon fibre and powered by a 1200 dry sumped blackbird motor running DTA management and Jenvey throttles with an all up weight of less than 400kg ready to run....magnesium axle nose, every single item weighed and optimised! (Except me which is definitely a problem!)
Whats the exhaust can made of Julian ?
Like you I have a blackbird engine, prob in a similar weighing car ( mines a formula ford so well stripped down!)
I had the can off and thought it was bloody heavy and having been a biker previously my thoughts immediately turned to a 2nd hand bike titanium or carbon item. Is yours titanium or stainless ? If its stainless I bet you could shave even more
I have a Westfeild, and there are bike engined westfields. When I was looking, there seemed to a lot of BEC within the MK Indy fold. Locost builders is a good forum for what is. Some Tigers are bike engined. Not sure about bike engine caterhams. There is GBS with the Zero. MNR do a nice looking car.
As said above, the weight goes up and you do end up with uprated clutches, and I understand the BEC can be hard work in traffic, and some engines need a reasonable amount of work and or dry sump or at least accusump to avoid surging in the corners when they don't lean over like a bike. But you can also get sequential shift, flat shifters, and similar power out of an engine and gearbox that weighs the same as my gearbox which in a track or even fast-road car is a thrill. Aeroscreen, full fact, its a 4 wheel motorbike, a race car on the road. Will go like a bat out of hell!
I've got a 2l zetec, full windscreen and side screens, which suited by needs as a car which I can enjoy at all speeds, touring as well as track days, and also used a lot for autotesting.
Daniel
As said above, the weight goes up and you do end up with uprated clutches, and I understand the BEC can be hard work in traffic, and some engines need a reasonable amount of work and or dry sump or at least accusump to avoid surging in the corners when they don't lean over like a bike. But you can also get sequential shift, flat shifters, and similar power out of an engine and gearbox that weighs the same as my gearbox which in a track or even fast-road car is a thrill. Aeroscreen, full fact, its a 4 wheel motorbike, a race car on the road. Will go like a bat out of hell!
I've got a 2l zetec, full windscreen and side screens, which suited by needs as a car which I can enjoy at all speeds, touring as well as track days, and also used a lot for autotesting.
Daniel
fred bloggs said:
Motorbike engines are designed to pull about 260 kg with rider. You start pulling 5-600 kg and clutches and gearboxes dont like it.
Personally id rather go with a zetec or mx5 engine.
Sorry Fred, but that is simply not true, and been done to death here ....... The performance from even a (relatively ) lowly bike engine would absolutely destroy a MX5 motor or cooking Zetec, not even in the same league, and several of us have passed 30/40,000 miles in a BEC with no gearbox fails, and we use them for competition. Clutches are an inconvenience of 2 hours and 20-100 quid if they get hammered.... Personally id rather go with a zetec or mx5 engine.
Edited by Furyblade_Lee on Wednesday 1st July 21:42
kitcat7 said:
After 3 years of great motoring, I'm regretfully coming around to selling my well sorted, low mileage Caterham Seven fitted with an R1 170bhp engine. Priced at £15k ono. Is this the sort of thing which would be of interest?
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