That old Yugo - making the rounds - new owner

After some modifications to the front suspension, the Wartburg headed home to Jim T. The Yugo, well, took its place at the "school shop". After thinking for a long while (20 min or so), my fun brain said: make it street legal and drive it. My logical brain said: race it.

So here is the plan: today anyway. Buy a local street worthy (yeah, a stretch) yugo and add some performance stuff....and have a good cruise nite laffer. Take the "racer"...and finish it off as a "racer". But with a little something different.

What about a 600cc inline Honda CBR engine? I'm getting ready to pull one from a chassis, to replace it with a 1200cc HD engine (another long story).

Anyway; I'm starting to look for ways to do it. We'll see what happens....opinions?

I'd like to race it in the GRM events. Is there any limit to engine options? or is it all driven by the $2014 cost? all options on the table!

Considering how bike like the fiat motor is I'd just stick with that, after all, you have like 5 of them now.

Hi Kenny. You're not kidding there. Lots of engines came with the car. The local car that I found is full up complete, running and driving with a 1.3 EFI and cheap enough to take a risk on.

For the track car, I want to strip if down as far as possible. adding lots of lightness. I figure the CBR600 engine is 90HP with damn near 100% reliability. The yugo is ~55hp or so. it will take alot to get it to 90 hp.

I figure build up a "reliable" yugo engine for the "street car". and modify the hell out of the track car.

swing69 wrote: For the track car, I want to strip if down as far as possible. adding lots of lightness. I figure the CBR600 engine is 90HP with damn near 100% reliability. The yugo is ~55hp or so. it will take alot to get it to 90 hp.

But you have all the parts to build a 110 hp motor in your possession :) What you loose with the bike motor is obviously torque, if you get the weight down enough then you can get by without the torque. I'd personally like to see the V6 from an Alfa 164 in it but let's not add to the bad ideas just yet.

If the 2nd car you found is also a 1.3 FI car it's worthwhile to get, that motor was used in very few cars and is the top of the heap as far as Yugo propulsion units. Warning though, EFI timing belts are different and hard to get. Any local parts store is going to sell you the standard belt and tell you its right, ITS NOT!! I think Jay at Orion can still get the right belt (http://www.yugoparts.com/) What I was going to do is put an aftermarket trigger wheel on for the FI (its a standard 60 tooth) and use a set of the timing belt pullies from one of the fiat motors. The trigger wheel is built in to the crank pulley on the FI motor that's why the need for the aftermarket trigger wheel if you switch pullies.