cwh
cwh PowerDork
1/29/17 10:07 a.m.

If you put a good bike engine in a Junior Dragster? Suicide or barrels of fun?

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair UltimaDork
1/29/17 10:20 a.m.

Probably wouldn't pass tech

XLR99
XLR99 Dork
1/29/17 10:23 a.m.
cwh wrote: If you put a good bike engine in a Junior Dragster? Suicide or barrels of fun?

Yes

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
1/29/17 10:36 a.m.

Sounds like the quickest way to the accident site.

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy UltimaDork
1/29/17 11:14 a.m.

The junior would be too narrow to keep straight and upright, and the chassis is pretty light. There are dragster chassis available on pretty much any size you could want, able to accept pretty much any engine you can imagine.

Can't say I've ever seen a bike engined one. Interesting thought, but with bracket racing, the only reason to use a small, highly stressed engine is for personal desire.

Robbie
Robbie UltraDork
1/29/17 12:01 p.m.

Bike engines are cool, but harder to put in a car than it sounds. Still not going to stop us.

There are some really good deals out there. I recently bought an 01 gsxr 1000 motor: $128 (after shipping), 140 ish lbs, 160 ish HP.

G_Body_Man
G_Body_Man SuperDork
1/29/17 1:24 p.m.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7gTm_6fpOag

Nah, what you want is a legend car.

Knurled
Knurled MegaDork
1/29/17 2:34 p.m.
Robbie wrote: Bike engines are cool, but harder to put in a car than it sounds. Still not going to stop us.

A Junior Dragster is just enough tubing to hold a seat, a Briggs & Stratton horizontal-shaft engine, and some sort of chain drive.

Putting a motorcycle engine it would be the trivial part. Finding someone to drive it a second time would be the hard part.

akamcfly
akamcfly Dork
1/29/17 4:33 p.m.

The 650 twin engine/gbox in my kawi er6n isn't much bigger than a briggs and stratton. 72hp

stroker
stroker SuperDork
1/29/17 8:54 p.m.

In reply to G_Body_Man:

Man, he was going flat out for a LONG TIME in that one section... I wouldn't want to have something happen and leave the road at that speed. Yeesh!

G_Body_Man
G_Body_Man SuperDork
1/29/17 10:27 p.m.
stroker wrote: In reply to G_Body_Man: Man, he was going flat out for a LONG TIME in that one section... I wouldn't want to have something happen and leave the road at that speed. Yeesh!

I was working turn 8 last year when a legend car came in too hot. He somehow threaded the needle between two sets of concrete barriers, and wedged the tire wall under him hard enough to stop him from hitting a post and a low barrier. Only real damage was a bent grille.

G_Body_Man
G_Body_Man SuperDork
1/29/17 10:33 p.m.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/y6nN1smBFR4

Also, the Hayabusa Golf Cart.

pheller
pheller PowerDork
1/30/17 4:39 p.m.

I'd like to see a Legends-Esque car with AWD and a lift suitable for rally and/or desert racing.

stroker
stroker SuperDork
1/30/17 6:30 p.m.
pheller wrote: I'd like to see a Legends-Esque car with AWD and a lift suitable for rally and/or desert racing.

"Ghetto-cet" Subaru?

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