Derived from a boat
 

How about a doner engine from a boat. This pic is dressed up for a car the
ox66 must be based on the ox88 from the formular 1 engine. just for the hell of it i am going to research this one.Its tiny and 225hp in normal boat trim




Here is suzukis effort

http://www.hotribs.com/03press/226-suzuki/suzuki.asp

Bob:cool: Edit; that yam weighs 230 lbs is 16.5" long and 21" wide

I am not sure they will be any use.

I doubt they produce much torque,
is there a gearbox available?
What sort of RPM do the produce?

TT

I must say Bob

That looks like a real mean engine, I like it ( Still got dribble running down my chin ) :o :D

I guess that marine engine would be coupled to a Jet drive unit so would need to produce a whole bunch of torque & scream like a banshee.

The jet drive would have some kind of bell housing, might be available as a single unit.

One thing for sure, it would probably cost big,big bucks to hook it all up in a car.

Like your thinking though, nowt wrong with thinking outside the box for a unique set up :)

That is a good looking engine.....not as beautiful as a small block chevy :D
I imagine it would be fully electronic...so...the could probably be mapped to work in a car....could be interesting.

Our club dive boats have Suzuki and Honda engines and when we had trouble with the Honda the service centre said that it was basically an accord engine tired on it's end. The Honda is a 90horse the suzuki is 140 horse great fun and lots of power

Arfon

if theres a way of fitting a jet ranger helicopter engine into a seven type car or even a motorbike why not ? it would only take a small amount of engineering and outside thinking

you dont know unless you try ! :D

Some engines are designed and built around a restricted rpm range.

TT

Had a quick scout about and cant believe how much involvement Yamaha have had on the car engine side of things. They are responsible for that stonking engine in the lexus gt sports car thing and numerous others in particular the sho v6 for had them make in the states. Rumours <not in the below article> state that they had buzzed it to 11000rpm and it held 8500rpm for a whole 24 hours.

http://forum.miata.net/vb/archive/in.../t-129626.html

Bob:cool:

I'd have thought a marine engine would be awkward - aside from finding a gearbox to fit it (assuming the existing engine 'box is designed for a two speed propeller) I'd expect parts to be very expensive.

Just based on my experience servicing my boat engine - even the smallest parts cost a fair bit.

Not to mention if it's a used boat, you'd have possible salt water corrosion (especially on the water cooling as most boat engines obviously use water sucked up from around them)...

That said, the engines pictured do look very shiny and I bet they'd sound nice!

EDIT: Actually, just looked at the cost: http://www.theboatcentre.co.nz/price_specs.html <- I know that's in Dollars, but yikes!! The 300 linked in the second link by the OP is just over NZ $45,000 :O

I like this idea, the engine looks very like the V8 Hyabusa derived engine that I have seen in a Caterham and an Elise, gearbox would be an Elite one with a bellhousing made to mate the two together.
I would imagine the cams are made for constant high revs.
Very interesting thread.