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In the United Kingdom, the 750 Motor Club runs a national race series for cars powered by road going motorcycle engines (RGB series). Radical Sportscars also runs a racing series for its bike-engined cars. In the United States, the Lites 2 category of IMSA Prototype Lites [1] (formerly IMSA Lites) consists of cars using a Kawasaki motorcycle ...
Any BMW K engine can be used, from a 750 cc 3-cylinder, to a 1200 cc, 4-cylinder, giving power outputs from 75 bhp (56 kW) to 130 bhp (97 kW). The motorcycle sequential gearchange is retained and operated via a gear shift inside the cockpit and requires a forward or backward movement to change gear. The brake, accelerator and clutch operate as ...
The Tiger Avon is a British kit car from Tiger Racing, a manufacturer formed in 1989 specialising in Lotus Seven type cars and racing cars.. The Tiger Avon is Tiger's entry-level model, and can be fitted with different engines including the Ford Zetec, the Ford OHC and some motorcycle engines.
The company's first car, the Blackjack Avion, was produced from 1996 until 2004, replaced by the VW Beetle-engined Blackjack Zero. In 2008 a lighter variant of the Zero known as the Blackjack Guzzi was introduced, the name derived from the Moto Guzzi motorcycle engine that powers it. [1] Blackjack Zero kits have been unavailable since June 2013.
Both of these models have ceased production. There has also been at least one installation of the RST-V8, created by Moto Power; a 2-litre, 40 valve 340 bhp (254 kW) V8 made from a pair of motorcycle engines joined at the crank. An early, pre-production review of the car/engine combination exists on the EVO website. [8]
The first cars were lightweight two-seat models powered by motorcycle engines and with glassfibre bodies. The 1954 Atom was powered by a rear-mounted, two-stroke, air-cooled motor cycle engine driving the rear wheels through a three-speed Albion motor cycle gearbox and chain to the back axle.
Wheels were of the wire bicycle type. By 1908 Shaw built and sold complete Shawmobiles. Advertisements claim 25 mph (40 km/h) and 90 mpg with the original Shaw engine. In 1915 Shaw also redesigned the engine kit featuring an improved H-20 engine with a magneto ignition and chain drive. [1] Shaw redesigned the car in 1922 to look more conventional.
The mixture of a low price entry kit and the options from there on, allows for a perfect B-road cruiser to an ultimate track weapon. The newer form of the MK Indy, now houses one of two huge power-plants; The Honda Civic Type-R V-tec K20 engine or the vicious Suzuki Hayabusa 1340cc motorbike engine.