Saw a motorcycle powered Speedster today

Sounded interesting as it pulled into the shell station. Being a Speedy owner, I bolted to the car .. This was in Greensboro NC. He didn't know much about the car at all. It has a Hyabusa 1300cc engine and 6 speed sequential box that I didn't recognize. It was not a ZF or Hewland. It seemed pretty zippy, but sure sounded odd. It was black with Tan interior and had a dealer tag from NC on it. Anybody know this car???

How strange. Sounds like a good tranny for that engine though. I'd like to see it.

It's probably more powerful and faster than my 1776

There is a guy near me that builds Caterham Seven's with the Hyabusa engines.. crazy fast..

http://super7cars.com/Super7_Hayabusa_Caterham.html

ahhh - did you get any pictures of contact info?

i've been thinking about this for a while.

Here's one with a nice v-twin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNDQMM2pYw

I wonder what the Hyabusa would be like for torque.

Even more curious as to what a turbo would do to it..

175 HP at about 9500 RPM and about 100 ft-lbs of torque. So probably about equivalent to a 1.8L if you could rev the nuts off it (6000 rpm in a 'busa is only about 120 HP).

Hmmm, howzabout reverse? Electric motor? Sounds like a bike trans to me.

I toyed with the idea of a Honda Goldwing engine/trans as that particular one has a factory reverse. It's still just the starter/reverse (electric) but it seems to survive pretty well on the big Honda, even with a trailer.

Of course, having been the proud owner of both a Fiat and a Jaguar... I must point out that I drove the Fiat for nearly two years as a DD without reverse. Apparently, going backwards is just not that important to me - LOL!

angela

It's a setup from a Radical, which is a neat little car. It has reverse build into the box.