Bike Engine advice needed

[dontlift]

Does anyone know what bike engines (reasonably recent) have the sprocket on the right hand side??????

Preferably 400 - 750 cc

[Mon Ami Mate]

The last bike I can remember with an output shaft on the right was the Kawasaki Z1300. And that was shaft drive.

[cazzo]

My Kids have a 60cc twist'n go MX bike with sprocket on the right.

Other than that I can't think of any newish bikes with drive on the right - the only bike I've owned with such a setup was made in 1968 and it had right side gear shift (1 up, 4 down) left side brake & kickstart.

Ducatis in the '70s were like this but had complicated linkages conversions to move the shift lever to the left, before they converted to the current format to conform with (I think) US legislation - I blame the septics!

Only thing I can suggest is old European bikes!

Edited to say; you could always fit the engine in backwards and redesign it to run in reverse (or have 6 reverse gears)

BTW, why do you want such an engine?

>> Edited by cazzo on Monday 7th July 19:42

[dontlift]

Is for a gearbox KArt, I currently have a KTM 250cc crosser engine on it, around 70 odd bhp but need more - need to prove that a kart can do 200mph

[T.K.E]

A few of the Italian motocross/supermoto singles have the output on the right like Husqvarna and Vertemati, but if it's for a kart then you'll struggle to get more than 70 hp and it not become a total grenade! What about a snow mobile engine? They have the output on the right straight off the crank! You'd then obviously need a gearbox. Maybe make you're own (using another bike's internals) if you're mechanically inclined or source a CVT from the snowmobile. 200+ hp is possible on a big stroker snowmobile engine.

Tom

[dontlift]

What we are after here is a total grenade, the chassis is a 96 Jade F1 with 4 wheel Kelgate brakes etc so more than happy to apply 70+hp to it

[goodlife]

Just turn the engine upside down


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