Hayabusa V8 - prepare to drool!

[Mr. T]

http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/1562068.htm

[Mr. T]

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[67MGBV8]

Amazing!

[jheis]

....and it's under $30K!

[Bill Young]

Tony, if it has lumps in it it's not drool! ;-)
Neat design but a bit useless for most LBCs, just not enough torque to make it a real viable street engine. Maybe in a Locost, but even in a Midget it would need some really low gearing to pull the weight.

[427ZA]

I know I'm dragging this thread up from the depths of the forum but, by coincidence, I've just been reading about this very engine over on the Landspeed forum.

There's an Australian team that want to use this engine in a motorcycle streamliner but it's caused a huge debate as to wheteher or not it's actually still a motorcycle engine or if it's purely for cars...it's become a very heated and contentious debate.

The SCTA have ruled that it will count as a motorcycle engine even though it won't actually fit in one purely on the basis that the majority of the internal components are Hyabusa....it's effectively two engines bolted together.

Personally, if I had the money, I'd be fitting it in something like a replica lightweight EX186 or something along those lines.

[Moderator]

"replica lightweight EX186"

I like the way you think!

[hoffbug]

Maybe this thing will need an upgrade?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJ84nho3_k&feature=related

[roverman]

Ok, so it's waay beyond burning rice, but I looked at the animation, and the flywheel spins opposite of crank? Is this part of the patent?  I'm droolin, but itsa "age" thing. At hp-per-$, I have no Yen for this, roverman.