Whilst I understand everyone has their favourites. I would be interested to hear any opinions on which bike engine would suit a road going mnr. I would have circa £1500 - 1750 to spend. People have suggested maybe a zx10 Kawasaki or yamaha R1. Any ideas as I'm about to start spending !!!

r1 or stretch your buget to a busa

[Edited on 3/1/08 by dave-69isit]

zx10r

hi is the car built and does it have an engine in

r1 great zx10r great but more£££ due to less off the shelf parts

The car isn't built yet ! I am getting ready to order all the kit and start searching for a suitable engine

Talk to Malcolm at Yorkshire Engines on this site. He seems to have the best in Bike engine deals.

ZX10R is by far the better engine...

Steve

Thinking outside the box, how about a Goldwing engine? 1600cc Shaft drive boxer with 120ish bhp, water cooled too

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Flat 6 with a reverse too aren't they ?

I somehow hadn't imagined fitting a gold wing engine !! I will be fitting a quaife reverse box.

The R1 seems to be the more common or popular engine. i would like to apply the "once and well" principle and fit an interesting engine from the off.

If anyones fitted a zx10 engine I would really like to know if there are any pitfalls/advantages to using this powerplant. I will be buying the MNR wiring loom so installation should be the same for both (maybe not) . Without sounding condascending I would like to say thanks for all the helpful advice I have been given over the last 24hrs or so !

Regards

Bob

Hi Bob,

Both Paul Fisher and BigRich have fitted and are running cars that have the ZX10R.

Paul started out by turboing his car, but it hasn't worked out quite to plan, so is now running a standard 2007 ZX10R in his MK SPecR.

BigRich is running a 2007 (might be 06?) engine and is more than happy with it!

The only real downfall to the ZX10R above and beyond all other modern injected engine is the fact that it is high geared, so you need to find a lower ratio diff - these are relatively rare from a sierra donor nowadays, but the Freelander diff is a very good replacement. In fact it's a lot better, but you have to have the Diff mounts made up to suit it.

Anyway, drop BigRich and Paul Fisher a U2U and I am sure that they would both be more than happy to help with their experiences!

Cheers,
Steve

[Edited on 4/1/08 by worX]

Thanks for that ! I willl look into it further.