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Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:23 pm
by 3VILC
Mini powered by a race bike engine..legend


Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:56 pm
by DaveM
Theres a busa powered Starlet Rally car in Nelson, sounds great revving out to 13k rpm between gear shifts :lol:

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:59 pm
by tweake
thats how the mini should have been made from day one!

i think honda did actually put an air cooled motorbike engine in a front wheel drive sports car ...around the 70's i believe.

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:46 pm
by pressy
i believe there is also a smart car done like it to, best they have ever gone.... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:04 pm
by 3VILC
Yeah theres smart cars, fiats, starlets, alsorts of little cars lol.
The minis are pretty cool tho. Theres a yamaha R1 powered one too. And one chopped into a ratrod ute. Oh the things you can do when you've got more money than time :lol:

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:17 pm
by SP450andLE
It's pretty common tbh... http://www.zcars.org.uk/

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:43 pm
by niblik
i love the vid of a smart car sportin the busa engine doin an exhibition and pulls a stoppy! mint.... 8)

Re: Mini - Hyabusa Powered

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:44 pm
by lilpigzuk
a few years back my cousins boss was racing a pukekohe and needed to sort his toy on a flat surface - only thing was our shed, turboed hyabusa :mrgreen: ,

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Driver in the left "fuselage", engine in the right

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power to weight must of been insane, a bit like my diesel discovery

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my 31 inch tyre next to it

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