Bike engine or Snowmobile engine?
Well I ripped the electric drive out of my EV and sold the batteries, motor and controller.
Now I'm looking for a regular smokey, stinky, noisy internal combustion engine that will put a smile on my face.
(The Electric Car was Boooooooorrrrrrrrrring)
The weight of the car now without drive train is just a hair over 800 lb.
I've got my options down to either a Yamaha R1 bike engine with transmission or the similar Yamaha RX1 snowmobile engine with CVT drive.
There is lots of info on bike engine builds on this forum but not so much on snowmobile/CVT builds.
R1 is pretty straight forward but I would need to come up with a way to reverse.
RX1 is a little more complicated but comes with reverse.
I kind of like the idea of the CVT for use in slalom. No wasting time changing gears.
I'd be interested to hear of any other pros and cons of one over the other.
My Build Log -
http://www.szott.com/zot2/zot2.html