Very interesting project website

This guy is designing and building his own race car powered by a turbocharged Hyabusa motorcycle engine. It'll be less than half the weight and more than twice the power of a Lotus Elise. He has put together an excellent web site documenting his progress, and I think anyone who spends time tinkering on GT40s would appreciate it.

http://www.dpcars.net/dp1/index.htm

Mark. I can testify to the attributes of the Hayabusa engine in a car. My brother and i built a pair of Lotus 7 replicas with the 'Busa engine. They are awesome. They weigh 450kg (990lbs) and have 165 rw hp. The acceleration is awesome. We have also fitted Winters speedway live axle with torsen LSD and "quick change" gear ratios. We can change the diff ratio in ten minutes. Motec ECU and LCD dash to control the whole thing. Carbon fibre seats, guards etc. The buzz you get in the car with the engine reving at 11,000 and the wind in your face, 4" off the road is hard to beat. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Pretty cool, Mark. There's a guy in the UK who supposedly was offering sport prototype CAD drawings for 50 pounds sterling (ADR Engineering 1000), unfortunately, it seems he never answers your e-mail... too bad, though, a simple yes or no if the plans were still available (which is listed on the website) would be polite.

Powerplant for that is a BMW K1000.

Wow! An amazing website. How much is he spending altogether?

We met a guy in Dublin last year at the Phoenix Park races that had scratch build (with two mates help) something very similar using a Kawasaki ZX12 engine. He took it out in the open class, anything goes (the only class he was allowed in) against some pretty respectable kit and slaughtered the lot of them, the thing went like stink, nothing even kept up let alone challenged him and keep in mind that there were some `track specialists` out there, much respect /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
If you`ve never been it has to be seen, once a year they have a weekend of racing around the park, this is a big park like any major city has, big trees with straw bales in front of them, and better still, skips for barriers, yep, skips as in skip hire skips for the marshals to hide behind. Totaly mad and a great weekend, top hospitality as you`d expect from the Irish, recomended /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

When I had a Westfield a member of the club's Norfolk branch had a Westie powered by twin Suzuki Hiyabusa engines...Quick ain't the word....He worked for Lotus but sold it last year. It had twin gearlevers linked together and getting the clutches to take up at a similar point was apparently a nightmare...