I've seen some vids with a few different mini's in europe that have the hayabusa engine fitted into them. In every case it has a smiling driver, a sh1t scared passenger and alot of smoke!!

Giggety Giggety... Giggety Goo!!

Well I know I won't be getting a Duc engine anyway... to expensive! I'm not all that into bikes, so I can only speak from what I've been told. The ZX series is the one my mate is trying to push me on to, but as I said, I think something a bit more torquey is the key.
Also not really that interested in pushing the car up to 300km/h! Even 200km/h is probably too much. Do like the shifting in a bike though.

no, that's not true, there is definitely a lot of bikes out there with cats in them. i know for sure that both the ducati monster s4r and 620 have cats from the factory because mum and dad replaced the exhausts in theirs.
zx-14 does seem to be a very good engine, dad has one and not that he'd know but it does 180kp/h in 2nd gear with standard everything except the secondary throttle bodies removed or something like that and yoshi slip ons. i'm not sure what gearing you'd use for a car, the zx-14 is speed limited to 300kp/h but i'm not sure if the motor would push a car to those speeds?

The ZX14 is apparently the only bike out at the moment with a cat, so I could go down that road if I needed to. The engine+gearbox combo is under 80kgs which is great. The engineer has said due to the age of the car, pre 1974, there are a lot of rules that don't apply to it. I'd have to upgrade to disc brakes so there are a few things required. I'm hoping to aquire a good bike wreck in the next couple of months.

so with a cat and decent reverse system you could register it on the road? is there any laws against sequential boxes?
i really do hope you can get a bike engine in there, it'd probably lighter than the standard engine and as long as you got a nice light diff and tried to minimise weight all round it would be an absolute hoot to drive. i'd love to do a similar thing with a hayabusa or zx-14 motor in a 2dr 1000 sedan or shock horror ke10 corolla or ford anglia 105e. definitely keep us updated on your progress

I'm interested in this build with moto power.
The 1k ute weighs two tenths of stuff all,would be cheap to cage and easy on the suspension and brakes(still upgraded)and could be used in CAMS events as a Sports Car legally

Good rims I've got those on my 1200 ute.
Looks like a good score and an interesting project. Good luck with it!

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After speaking to the engineer, I am contemplating the FJR1300, due to the extra torque. He's happy to pass the extra capacity and would even so so far as engineering a Hayabusa engine. Looking into the costs of it all, I'm happy to fun with the extra torque. Helps if I ever contemplate putting a turbo on!

bike engine sounds good, a motorbike gearbox just feels so good. i drove an aussie racing car the other day and these have yammy fj1200 engines and boxes in them and it's so awesome just lifting off when you change up and left foot braking and giving the throttle a brap on the downchanges.
what yamaha engine were you looking at? the new r1 engine looks nice but would be pricey i would think, it has variable length intake manifolds, how awesome is that? 200hp out of 1 litre is insane and it should have plenty of torque for the little 1000.

I actually got them off a guy that had them on an AE86, so don't know what they are originally off. I wanted something with some decent dish and these certainly have that! I think with tyres it is going to rub on the front guards. I really don't want to modify/molest the original front guards, so when I get the fibreglass ones, I'm happy to modify them instead.