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I have been thinking about putting a streetbike engine in my LUV, but not exactly sure how I would hook up a tranny. Or if I used the stock chain drive with an independent rear, how I would get reverse...
Well while looking around on the internet I found this...

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/02/09/hayabusa-v8-engine/

I want it! They can get a single one of those engines (not the V8 version) to 350HP reliably with a turbo, so could you imagine the V8 with a turbo, or even 2!

they have been doing that in the uk for awhile now with the mini, but not v8's just the four

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Yeah, most of the companies I saw were in the UK... I think that V8 is even from the UK

I run a 2002 gsxr 1000 street bike motor in my race car,it puts out 160hp,and hits the rev limiter @ 12,400 rpm.You can buy one complete for under $1500.00

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240" rear engine dragster
traded the circle track cars for a blown 496 chevy
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29 dodge 4 dr sedan (project)
84 ranger 2wd "tuff truck" with 350 sbc

What do you do for a transmission? Or what do you use to drive the car (chain, drive line, etc). Also do you have a reverse?

Dwarf cars do not have reverse. We run the stock trans in the motors, the motors are installed side ways and we use a coupler made by Hawk that installs where the stock sprocket goes and couples it to a U-joint. Then from there to a drive shaft to a modified Toyota 8 or 10 bolt diff. Dwarf cars are limited to 1250 cc's in stock form. So a Hayabusa motor can not be ran due to it being over 1250 in its stock form. But you can take a GSXR or a BlackBird motor and build it up to a 1250 cc motor.

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Well that kind of solves the driveline problem... but this would be on a street truck, so I would need reverse... No idea how to do that... lol

Maybe by the time I would actually get around to doing it I will have figured it out

Some in the UK use an electric motor that engages the drive shaft to go in reverse

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Cool topic, I'd been researching this along the lines of using a ATV shaft driven powersource. Time to rethink this...

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i had thre old austin mini and was thinking of this in 2000 it was kinda new then but here is some clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxXDyhiBhk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93NHq5k ... ed&search=
and for fun we where going to put a hons civic motor in so it go like a bat out of hell but had to sell...here is one with the honda motor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvl51Xe ... ed&search=

and if you want the lowdown on doing a fwd setup look here i think if i remember right they where the ones that started it all
http://www.zcars.org.uk/~zcars.org.uk/public_html/mini/

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you could run a small tranny(like a toyota car) inline,just have to make a adapter for the driveshaft to go to the input shaft.regular driveline on the back side.A long time ago some dwarfs where set up that way( in the northwest)

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72 luv v-8 owned since 16!
240" rear engine dragster
traded the circle track cars for a blown 496 chevy
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29 dodge 4 dr sedan (project)
84 ranger 2wd "tuff truck" with 350 sbc

so if you ever get this engine to work i wanna know EVERY detail, thanks
-Dustinicus

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Also look at Legend Cars and Desert Karts. For some reason I've gotten the motorcycle powered car bug. Most of my ideas have already been done. I guess that's good.

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