other than the original mini, what are some lightweight chassis being sold in the U.S. that can be a viable option and relatively easy to buy?
>ib4 burgerland has no light weight cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUzlQeYOak
>>14778824
Next gen cars will have cycle tier engines. Perhaps not, but a MR2 has one already.
>>14778824
geo metro?
>>14778824
honda beat.
daihatsu copen.
suzuki cappuccino.
>>14780340
>what are some lightweight chassis being sold in the U.S. that can be a viable option and relatively easy to buy?
https://youtu.be/AgwzHJo3IXM
https://youtu.be/JGvLMg0DY0o
https://youtu.be/4_GguV68gLk
Nearly any kei car is a possible recipient of a busa engine. But they're not easy to buy in the USA.
Just think light and small and turbo busa.
Do those Smart roadsters still exist?
>>14778824
you are going to have to do so much work there will hardly be anything left of what you started with
best just to build a space frame and buy some reproduction body panels to give the look you want
>>14780470
mmm, that master tier engineering on that frame.
>>14780480
Poland style
>>14780470
Is it possible to register something like that?
After you've put on seats and lights and bodywork etc.
>>14780502
in new sealand something like this can be registered as a special interest vehicle or a kit car
but this still encompasses much of the MA class in terms of lamps and door handles
and aspects like the chassis and seat mounting strength need to be assessed by an automotive engineer in order to pass
>>14780470
>all of that work and custom fab
>trailing arm suspension
>>14780586
keeping it in spec
>>14780604
126p has semi-trailing arm suspension, not trailing arm suspension.
>>14780586
>americans build space frames with SRA
poland doesnt even have electricity m8, how does america even cope?
>>14780586
Also
>rod ends in bending
>>14780616
>>americans build space frames with SRA
wut
>>14780614
suppose trailing arm gives more room for tires and is easer to implement
but there is no photo showing how the arms mount to the frame
>>14780677
found
>>14780625
those wheels
>laughingwhores.jpeg
>>14780680
Those suspension arms are truly abysmal
Why even bother? Germany built it back when the wall was up.
>>14780705
6 volt electrics
What transmission do you plan on attaching to this bike engine? It's got to be strong enough to move you + 1000lbs of chassis quickly without breaking, as well as having the gears to properly use 12,000 rpm of input shaft speed.
That's the hard part.
MotoIQ put a Hayabusa engine in a miata, but they essentially had to design and build their own transmission and it was kinda a fail, which is sad considering all the money and time they put in.
Stop and think about why you want to do this too. Have you ever noticed that as vehicle weight increases, the rpm limit of a gas engine decreases? I know your thinking a motorcycle engine will be fast and revvy and powerful and whatnot, and you'll have sikk throttle response and internet creds, but in reality it's just going to be a high strung bike motor in something too heavy for its application. Just look at Formula SAE cars. They use bike motors and even they have trouble matching the engines wide rpm range to something that weighs less than 800lbs.
So in short, unless whatever chassis your planning you use weighs around the same as whatever bike you got the engine out of, there's really no point and your just going to be broke, both in wallet and vehicle.
>>14780764
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_R1200RT
this only does 6000
but I assume otherwise a reduction gear is used before the gearbox like how is done with turboshaft powered bikes and motorbike powered aircraft
>>14778824
Why not just buy a kit-car from britain? Super-light chassis, Hayabusa engine.
Or do those come under the import cucklaw as well?
LAND OF THUH FREE
Would be pretty tits to swap a Nash metropolitan with one
>>14780764
Could you not keep the engine transmission together from the motorcycle and have the final drive be a chain as well on your kit car and play with your sprocket sizes to make it work?
>>14781403
It would be even better to use the motorcycle's engine and transmission then make a custom adapter to convert adapt the output from sprocket to driveshaft.
>MX3
>NX2000
>Integra
>Corrado
>Piazza
All the forgotten oldie-but-goldy'so of the 90's. Very interesting cars that got phased out with bigger sized, less powerful, and more practical cars from their manufacturers.
>>14780680
Someone get these faggots a prefab suspension. For fucks sake you can't do fucking everything with a ham fist and a welding stick
>>14778824
is that a 1000 yama Genesis?
>>14781609
But it would be doable with chain and sprocket correct?
Lotus Seven replicas?
