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Old 4th April 2010, 08:14 AM
Johnnybizzle Johnnybizzle is offline
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Bike engine, buy nice cheap doner bike and take everything from it, motor, rad, oil cooler, horn, loom, anything over 1000cc plenty of torque, half the torque of car engine but half the weight of a family car and similar power and they rev to 11000 not to mention 6 speed sequential box.

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Old 5th April 2010, 10:01 AM
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My thoughts on the bike engine are that installation is expensive with reverse boxes, props, gear change linkage, etc. and they don't tend to have much torque 80 ft/lbs average with only the big engines having more.
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