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Old 17 May 2007, 22:04 (Ref:1915681)   #20
Dennis.Doyle
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Dennis.Doyle should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by RED21
I am just going to put a one of my warped idea’s / brainwaves (OUCH) down, so please forgive me!

If I was wealthy enough and stupid enough to purchase a Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle and then proceeded to install the engine into a single seat car, would this car become a “Bike engine car” or just a single seater with a Dodge viper engine in it???
Wouldn't that really make it a single seater with a truck engine in it?

Going back to real bike engines, about which I know very little. I wonder if some of the versions you get in sprint & hillclimb cars aren't more highly tuned than say MotoGP engines. Certainly if you watch the revs displayed on MotoGP they are pathetic compared to F1, given the fact that small engines should rev much higher than big ones. Also, given the way that current bikes eat the back tyre, both on road & in short races, I suspect there is little motivation to tune them much higher in that context. I would have thought you could tolerate a much higher & peakier power delivery through a pair of 10" Avons than you could on any bike.

Probably wrong, but maybe interesting to discuss?
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