hmmmm somewhere between i think, although the 1000 cc engines are good
at driving the chain on the modern crotch rocket, the weight of your
spit is well out of the torque range of the engine, (ever notice the
fact that the rear gear on a kawi is about 14 inches in diameter and
the drive gear 3???) plus the bike weighs less than 600
pounds....your spit curb weight is at least 1700...hmmm 1100 extra
pounds...this could pose a problem...unless you like driving at
35...best bet is to find a reasonable engine block that would be cheap
to rebuild, (honda civic 79-80) comes to mind...or bite the bullet and
rebuild the spit engine, that's what i did.....
larry
---Spencer Fleury wrote:
>
> Hello lists:
>
> Some of you may remember my old thread about ring jobs and oil leaking
> out of interesting places in my engine (like the dipstick tube, for
> example).
>
> Well, fixing it is apparently going to exceed both my present
> mechanical and fiscal capacities (someone told me once that a secret
> to happiness is knowing your limitations - of course, he was much
> richer and much smarter than I am, so it was easy for him to say). My
> father has suggested removing the engine that's in there now and
> replacing it with a 1-liter motorcycle engine - either a Honda or a
> Kawasaki, he says. He claims it would be significantly cheaper than
> fixing what I have now, and it would (he says) be sufficiently
> powerful for the Spit.
>
> Have any of you ever heard of this being done before? Is it one of
> those flashes of brilliance my father occasionally displays, another
> shred of evidence that the time has come for him to be forcibly placed
> in a home, or something in between?
>
> TIA
>
> Spencer Fleury
> '77 Spitfire 1500
>
> "Not so much a Spitfire as a Drool-Oil . . . "
>
>
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