dirty_howi@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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.....
Have to agree with the motorbike engin, it would blow up in a couple of
months, from all the strain. I like the Honda Civic engin idea, but how
do you convert it to RWD, have you looked into this. My frend has a 84
Honda Civic, and that a FWD 1.3. He is aslo away for the month, leaving
his car on the road. Hmmmm.....
By that raional if you can convert the Honda engin to RWD and put it in,
could I take one from the sporty Triumph Acclaim, and put that in the
spit, it would keep it all Triumph.
The other thing you may try is getting a Doly Sprint engin, and shoving
that in, it's a Half V8, 16v job. Slant 4 they call it. Mmmm, in a
Spitfire.
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James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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