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Citroen C3 anyone put in a haybusa or blackbird engine into one

  • 25-07-2014 4:05pm
    #1
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭


    My C3 is fairly dead.
    I need to do a lot to it (engine and box) and was just wondering about doing a conversion instead.

    Anyone got any experience or ideas, or should I just stop now.


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  • #2
    free_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭free_man


    Curious you want to put a bike engine in car !!!


  • #3
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    It mightn't be road legal atall, cost a lot of money, and engineering but I say go for it for something different.

    I can link you to a build thread where this fella mid mounted a haybusa in a Punto mk2b, think it was turbo'd too


  • #4
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    dgt wrote: »
    It mightn't be road legal atall, cost a lot of money, and engineering but I say go for it for something different.

    I can link you to a build thread where this fella mid mounted a haybusa in a Punto mk2b, think it was turbo'd too

    Yea please do. I have been looking at a few vids on youtube, various cars like the smart car, a fiat uno etc.


  • #5
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    the culture of deference wrote: »
    Yea please do. I have been looking at a few vids on youtube, various cars like the smart car, a fiat uno etc.

    Found it!

    It's a good read :cool:


  • #6
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Or you could just buy a faster car. Which, seeing as the base set is a C3, ought not be too hard.


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  • #7
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Or you could just buy a faster car. Which, seeing as the base set is a C3, ought not be too hard.

    But where's the fun in that?

    A bike-engines C3 would be just a bit nutso and hilariously fun.


  • #8
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Dartz wrote: »
    But where's the fun in that?

    A bike-engines C3 would be just a bit nutso and hilariously fun.

    You'd need two, balance them, arrange the drive, throttles, gear change etc etc. Lads here do them for dirt-track racers. Temperamental is the word for them. And good luck getting road insurance.


  • #9
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    The original Mini apparently is cracking with motorbike engine (e.g. http://www.superfastminis.com/MTB2.html) And there are videos of them out accelerating Lambo's etc. Often thought about doing it purely for the craic but from doing a decent amount of reading, whatever you think its going to cost, at least double it.


  • #10
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    You'd need two, balance them, arrange the drive, throttles, gear change etc etc. Lads here do them for dirt-track racers. Temperamental is the word for them. And good luck getting road insurance.

    Never said it'd be easy.

    I jokingly once said I'd do the same thing to my Rx when the engine finally gave up the ghost, but it's not a cheap thing to do.


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