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why has no one swapped a jet ski engine into a motorbike/small car/go kart before?
massive bore 2 strokes that are supercharged? yes please.
Powering a waterjet is a lot different than being directly connected to a transmission/wheels/etc
>>13874984
how so...
what makes this so hard, so stupid, that NOT ONE person has done it?
>>13875022
You could do it, for the 30 seconds until the engine failed.
"This Japanese jet ski is propelled by a supercharged and intercooled 1,498cc, liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder engine that cranks out an impressive power of 300 hp. "
or a 1000cc 2 stroke thats supercharged...
>>13874980
Because they're shitty engines. People put bike engines into jet skis for a reason. Hell someone even put a 13b into a jet ski.
>>13874980
There's a racing class for a snowmobile engine in an open wheel car, is that close enough?
>>13875029
>>13875043
what makes them this bad?
>>13875049
They're designed to power waterjets.
Marine engines are cooled by the water the vehicle is in. The small stream you see shooting upwards behind watercraft is the water pump discharge. People do swap big bore 2 strokes out of snowmobiles as they have a somewhat conventional cooling system that can be modified for summer use. Also snowmobile drive systems are cvt so you don't need a transmission, just the 2 clutches from the sled, a jackshaft and chain drive.
>>13875042
Yeah, that's a four stroke engine you're looking at numb nuts.
Infact, the Kawasaki range of personal water craft use a supercharged version of the ZX-14 engine.
Two stroke jetski engines are typically ~800cc twin cylinders with no forced induction.
>>13875219
Not sure if you're taking into account marine engines usually (as in the case of jet skis) have their own sealed liquid cooling system. The water it's running in only runs through a heat exchanger, not the engine itself.
>>13874984
This. The load requirements are hugely different.
