froggy
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Mar 22, 2007 20:09:04 GMT
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the latest addition to the flying pigs is this little beauty coming all the way from holland in left hand drive ;D  which is having a pair of these stuffed in it   giving it a spritely 320 hp and around 600kg so over 500bhp/tonne |
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Mar 22, 2007 21:31:38 GMT
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Are you mental? Great idea though...
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Mar 22, 2007 21:39:12 GMT
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Wicked, looking forward to watching this 8)
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Mar 22, 2007 23:10:11 GMT
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sept you cant run two engines at once on the road unless one can be disengaged.
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take it to that place in bradford that turbos bikes engines, u should have about 500bhp each then
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street
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Mar 23, 2007 10:28:55 GMT
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Woah! You love your crazy fibreglass rocket projects!  That sounds like a brilliant plan, the performance of this this is going to be outrageous! |
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Stiff
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Mar 23, 2007 11:09:22 GMT
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That is gonna be BIG fun!
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Mar 23, 2007 11:25:23 GMT
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sept you cant run two engines at once on the road unless one can be disengaged. How's that? |
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Mar 23, 2007 11:32:33 GMT
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Fairly sure he's right - Scrapheap Challenge had that twin-engined Taxi and they had to disconnect one of the engines for road use. And the fantastic twin engined Range Rover ice cream van!
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Mar 23, 2007 11:36:26 GMT
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Every time someone states this, I ask, where does it say that. Theres a number of kit cars use two bike engines strapped together which are legal. Two engines but they can't operate independantly.
I have heard it said that twin engines where both drive separate transmissions are illegal, but again nobody can point to a regulation which states this...
And then the Mini Moke 4x4 had twin engines and twin transmissions and that was road legal. Theres also some hulking great 4x4 truck things which have dual tranmissions.
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VWDan
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Mar 23, 2007 13:13:07 GMT
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Not to mention a number of VW's which have been built with two engines...although they were capable of running on just one.
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If only everything in life was as cool as a retro VW racer.
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Mar 23, 2007 17:17:27 GMT
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Dunno where it states it - just pointing out what the show did!
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1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
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street
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Mar 23, 2007 18:14:57 GMT
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The only place i've heard that a twin-engined car is illegal on the roads is on Scrapheap Challenge, never seen any evidence of it anywhere else. I think Scrapheap got mis-enformed somewhere along the line and an urban myth was born  |
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froggy
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Mar 23, 2007 18:23:17 GMT
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both engines drive the diff by separate chains and the throttle and gearchange will be linked by clevis pins so one engine could be used ,this one will run on 13" wheels so it will have proper brakes unlike the van or the regal . this has been done before on a grasstrack car so i know it will workthe only head scratcher is how to mount the engines so that they can be moved independantly to tension the two chains |
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Mar 23, 2007 18:51:31 GMT
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The only place i've heard that a twin-engined car is illegal on the roads is on Scrapheap Challenge, never seen any evidence of it anywhere else. I think Scrapheap got mis-enformed somewhere along the line and an urban myth was born concur. People are too ready top believe what they see on the telly. They claim that all those vehicles are SVA compliant as well.... |
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Mar 23, 2007 19:12:14 GMT
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concur. People are too ready top believe what they see on the telly. They claim that all those vehicles are SVA compliant as well.... Maybe the scrapheap car failed the SVA on something something twin-enginged related, and as they didn't have time to address/sort/fix it, they just disconnected one engine when on the road? |
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Mar 23, 2007 20:03:37 GMT
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Clarkson had that limo of his SVA'd and look what happened to that! It snapped in half!
Wicked, wicked idea! A mate of my mates dad was building a single bike engined kitten but ive not heard anything else about it lately, but twin engined one is mental! It will be difficult to go the sleeper route with 13's on it, but that could out-sleep anything!
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froggy
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Mar 23, 2007 20:11:19 GMT
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i should grow up really but there is a n/a cosworth engined kitten up north and i want to have the fastest pig ever built ;D
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Mar 23, 2007 20:16:55 GMT
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I should grow up really but there is a n/a cosworth engined kitten up north and I want to have the fastest pig ever built ;D Well, if you do what you plan to do with it id say thats 'Mission acomplished!' |
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Last Edit: Mar 23, 2007 20:17:29 GMT by bmcnut
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VWDan
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Mar 23, 2007 21:15:00 GMT
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I should grow up really but there is a n/a cosworth engined kitten up north and I want to have the fastest pig ever built ;D I've seen that car locally a couple of times and it looks a bit mad - home made bits all over the place. Very loud and fast though ;D |
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If only everything in life was as cool as a retro VW racer.
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