Tiger bike engined

[Robmk1]

Hi people, i'm really thinking about swapping my sports car for a 'normal car' and a kit car. I have been to see a Tiger B6 powered by a Ninga 900 engine. Thought it was brilliant, very fast and handled well.

Just wondering what your thoughts are on the B6 or other bike engined cars?? Thinking more towards the bike engined option due to the noise, and i believe them to be much quicker than car engined ones (am i right on this?)

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Rob

[Size Nine Elm]

Depends on what you mean by 'quicker'. The bike-engined cars generally are quite light, and have a good power-to-weight ratio - but less actual power than a Pinto/Vauxhall/Zetec/V8 engined car. They may be quicker off the line, but will run out of oomph when the bigger engined cars will still be pulling. And the noise is more wearing - you need to be running at bike-level revs (5-10K) which is draining on a longer trip.

But bloody good fun on a twisty, or a shorter trip, and much easier (cheaper?) to maintain - engine-out job can be done by yourself. And you get a sequential gearbox.

You take your pick...

[accident]

it depends what you want from your kit car.
if you want a relaxed touring type car that has good performance then go down the car engine route.
if you want something a little more sporty then go the tuned car engine route.
if you want something stupidly cheap(well under £1k gets an engine to push a caterfield past 60 in 4 sec and onto 125mph)i still love the whole 12k revs thing.
the zx9 and the old blade engines are both cheap,reliable lumps with good gearboxes and dont need expensive sump mods like the busa and blackbird.
yes the bike engine is horrid at motorway speeds 6500rpm @70mph my solution is to have a walkman and a crash hat(i have no windscreen).
but the only truth is that you need to decide what you need from the car and choose your engine accordingly(car,bike,train or plane)