fwd bike engine conversion

[mark]

hi can any 1 tell me who does a fwd bike engine conversion kit :?

[blackminiman]

i have never seen or heard of it being done. that doesnt mean that it hasnt been done of course.

would it not be near on impossible to do though?? there wouldnt be enough room up front for the chain drive bits and pieces surely?

why would you want to put a bike engine up front any way? its much better in the middle. :wink:

[Minicooper]

No one that I know of does a kit yet, the closest are these people as they have actually already built and are going to offer it as a kit one day
http://www.pro-motive.co.uk/

KAD have done a mini with a ZZR1100, but they won't be offering it as a kit, they are looking at a R1 as a possible kit though
http://www.16vminiclub.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=690

Lynx AE have a R1 kit in development now, further details at the bottom of this webpage
http://www.lynxaelr1.co.uk/Developments-1.htm

Thats all I know of, they may be more, I've heard of other fwd bike minis but I have no details

Cheers
David

[Baldspeed Racing]

my mate darren builds them and owns the yellow mini with the R1 in the front. He is going ot be selling his kits very soon so watch this space.

[FatKev]

Baldpseed Racing - I take it your mate Darren is the same Darren at Pro-Motive then? I'm a bit slow this afternoon... :oops:

[MarkLD]

Baldpseed Racing - I take it your mate Darren is the same Darren at Pro-Motive then? I'm a bit slow this afternoon... :oops:

Yes he is.

[Baldspeed Racing]

Yup tis I lol

[FatKev]

Yup, I know now :D

I emailed him about the kit - sounds very interesting and not too costly considering its quite a comprehenisve pacakge. I'm really going to give this conversion consideration after a home brew XE based project on the cheap. :)

[Baldspeed Racing]

i cant wait to see his new car finished, hes going to a lot of people after him and the car i would say.

[supermotolee]

still waiting for my kit off darren i've seen a few pictures i'm hoping to have it working this summer!

[natedog]

I kept on to lynxae for ages about their conversion, until I went for a vtec instead, and it doesn't look like it's much nearer completion than 2 years ago.

[fwdr1mini]

[b]Just to let everyone know that may be interested we have now finished the first real customers FWD R1 kit and Lee will be taking it away on saturday so he can start playing.

So we can officially say that we can now take orders for kits, our website has been updated with a price and some basic information (next job is the website) any further questions please email us

www.pro-motive.co.uk

look forward to hearing from you!

thanks
Darren :D

[MarkLD]

Thats excellent news Darren, lets hope you get lots of interest, which I'm sure you will 8)