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Motorcycle Discussions => British Bikes => Topic started by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 03, 2013, 08:59:08 PM

Title: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 03, 2013, 08:59:08 PM

Here it is, a straight 8!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5y3a2did4E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5y3a2did4E)

Cheers

JBW

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: wetdog on February 03, 2013, 09:13:27 PM

nutter you need a bit more low end try this  .......................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQ7EFLJZU8

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 03, 2013, 09:47:24 PM

Too big, to fit in the frame!

Cheers

JBW

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: wetdog on February 03, 2013, 11:19:16 PM

the straight eight will go ?

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 04, 2013, 12:28:34 AM

lontitudinally in-line maybe!

Cheers

JBW

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 04, 2013, 08:15:02 AM

Wetdog, Update:
Engine Choice:
Seriously, the choice is still a transverse 4,  I just like the noise they make, that's an important aspect for me & that's why I have chosen that particular combination, plus to build a good strong engine will not cost the Earth!

Cheers

JBW.

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: wink on February 05, 2013, 12:07:10 AM

My father bought a Daewoo 800cc 3 cylinder Matiz . It sounds like an E type but I always thought it was a gutless wonder.Then one day I kept it in third and all of a sudden it went, the revs doubled, I nearly passed wind.
Not in a frame but in the front of a Morgan copy if I find a write off.

Title: Re: Engine found for Featherbed!
Post by: johnnyboy-wonder57 on February 05, 2013, 08:12:20 AM

Wink,
Daihatsu Charade with a turbo,  was a similar little whizz bomb!

Cheers

JBW