I was exhibiting at the Harrogate Kit car show last weekend, and saw this Punto work in progress. When complete it will have a rear mounted Suzuki Hayabusha engine which should be good for 130bhp+ and it weighs nowt too.....

Thought you may be interested.

I think the hayabusa engine is slightly more powerful than that..(with out looking).. It sounds cool looks like it maybe a twin engine job that's mad man power :slayer:

What's the torque on a 'busa engine?

175 ps/172.6 bhp @ 9800rpm
102.0 lbs-ft. @ 7000 rpm

In fact I knew it was around, 180 im just not the type to look

For all you speed freaks out there check this out lol

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p...oo.com/video/search?p=hayabusa+turbo&ei=UTF-8

Fast Finger said:

175 ps/172.6 bhp @ 9800rpm
102.0 lbs-ft. @ 7000 rpm

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Of course it is, probably got my self confudled with the displacement (1300), or possible got mixed up with the Blade engine Doh! (at least thats my excuse). You can see the builders web address in the pictures may be worth a look from time to time to see how its coming on.

so...........the point is?

130bhp?

Hmm, buy a HGT Multijet. 100bhp standard, 150bhp remapped and more torque than your tyres can handle.

and you get to keep the back seats!

and you get dual zone climate

and........

and...........

I mean hats off to the guy but get a life buddy. There are things such a girls out there but you'll never know if you spend all your life in your garage building pointless engineering excercises!!

..........just my tuppence worth you understand!!

that said, I do remember some guy built an Integrale engined Cinq! Now THATS gotta be worth doing!!