bike engined Seicento

reverse can be achieved with a starter motor on a ring gear on the rear axle

Thats alright then as a good spaceframe/cage will be needed to be made if your putting the engine at the back as half the floor will be needed to be chopped out

With access to (and the ability to use) MIG and TIG, tube bender, tubing notcher, casting equipment, pattern making, lathe and mill, gear cutting equipment and about 2 years free time, it'd be a peice of piss!

Otherwise, I'm inclined to think that a CBR engine belongs in a bike!

i was gonna try and get it in the front if i can. but if not in the back but it will be a lot more work.

Maybe you could try contacting these guys - I think this is a bit more extreme than what you're going after, but worth a try anyway:

If i was going to as much effort of putting a bike engine in a car, id deffo stick it in the back!!!! just think of the drifting and donuts

thats a beast i want on. are there any bodykits like that for the seicento.
adam

has anyone got a picof the diff unit or a pic of a engine bay with the engine out. in the manual it looks like the diff units on the back of the gearbox so i might be able to use it.but the drive of the bike engines on the other side so i could drive it off a shaft.
adam

Haven't seen one yet Only CC, 126 and 500. Try looking around though - the key word is "Proto" (I think it's the racing class for these little beasts in Italy).

That cinq is so lush, gotta love wide arches eh.

Luke.

Id agree...but if you can build it into a car...dont do a Cinq. Full up weight should be sub 210kg (so its never gonna be roadlegal and will only have one seat)...then you'll grin from ear to ear...

Were I (currently) looking at a rear engined Cinq, and a bit scared about the room an Alfa V6 would take up, I think I'd look at the T series Rover and the 1.8 Audi turbo mill. Both are great engines begging for a decent home. And any fwd car engine stuffed in the back of a Cinq avoids all the horrors of sorting out the transmission.

Then again, a W4 based on two Ducati 888s would be interesting..............

ive got the engine out. got the diff out the gearbox , and ordered the bearing to mount the diff. and ive ordered the plate wheel ill have to get it machined then make the frame to mount the diff and the engine. then bolt into the car its gonna be fun.
il post some pics but the batts in my cam have just gone dead.
adam

So, it's chain drive to the diff, using the CBR box and clutch? Adjusting the chain through the plate?