now they look like some serios fun.I think i might go build one. i have to spare vf750 motors lying around it just gave me an idea.It wont be quite as quick as these ones though

Yeah cool but i would want a Busa powered smart car on a race track, it would be uncontrollable around corners with the short wheelbase and the amount of power.

but still woulnt it be fun

Yeah sorry about the 400kg thing, I got that off this site who owned a busa set up for the drags with a whole lota extra stuff on it that pumped out 500hp.

And if I were to do it the car would be about 600kg. (KB10)

From the research that I have done there are a few of ways of doing it.

1) You could put the engine in the back like the minis

2) You could use the inbuilt clutch and gearbox off the busa, mount it north/south and weld one side of a universal joint connecting to the drive shaft onto where the front sprocket usually is. The trouble with this is that you would have no reverse. The aussie racing cars have some kind of mechanism in the diff...

3) You could not use the gears and clutch off the busa engine, but instead mount the shaft straight into the normal car clutch/gearbox, giving you reverse.

Its probably crazy and will never happen, but it would be one sweet as car. I think I might stick to my a14

ian, i reckon that is a wicked idea!

600kg kb10 minus cast iron block engine minus diff... not a whole lot of weight left.

definately mount it at the rear and run a chain and sprocket kind of setup to a new custom axle.

rediculously light, high revving and powerfull. in a kb10. now THATS different!

Hayabusa V8..327hp and i think it only weighs 95kg. now that would be great in a datto.only problem there about $10000 aech plus gear box.

A better comparison of the size of the motor(95kg)

Vixen- have you got a link to that V8 page? I don't see how you could do it using the busa block & head. In that pic they are running one side backwards
..... ok, that could probably be engineered, but when you have offset the two blocks by half a cylinder to allow for the custom V8 crank, there wouldn't be any room left for main bearings

About 10 years ago there was a honda (?) shallow angle V4 that someone used 2 of end to end to get a 2L V8 but this one has got me stumped.

Imagine if you turboed it! It would be one mean KB10 with one of those. I wonder how hard it would be to get rid of the busa gearbox and engine and just connect it straight to the datto 4spd. I think some research will need to be conducted.

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I think its a custom casting.

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/02/09/hayabusa-v8-engine/