Vintage & Classic Car Club of Pakistan

[safeershah]

@sami/mohsin

could you please shed some light as you are one of the most knowledgeable guys on the forum, what kind of V8 is this and how they managed to fix it with the drive shaft

[mohsinikram]

@safeershah
no idea - looks like an Italian V8 with quad Webers but I 'll let our engine guru Sami answer your question.

[darim]

Just wondering whether some of the classic car owners have got classic bikes as well?

Personally has a Matchless 1956 G3LS and 1948 Ariel as well.

[safeershah]

@darim

yeah some of us have classic bikes too, like mohsin have a speed twin , and triump tiger 1938 model and few more, I have a triumph 550, triumph trophy and benelli. Imad have some good bikes as well.

[darim]

Zabardast!!!

Is it possible to share some pics with us?

[sami_voodoo]

Safeer

Not too sure with this, but it seems that it's two bike engines joined together like Powertec do with the Suzuki Hayabusa engine. There's one clue that it was originally a bike engine is that the camshaft drive is at the centre. The bike's tank emblem shows it to be a Honda.

A bit of googling has made me think that it might be two Honda CBR1000F engines joined together. They had the centre cam drive.

As for the drive, a lot of longitudinal layout engines use this arrangement. All BMWs until the K1200 and their singles and parallel Twins, all Moto Guzzi's. The Honda Goldwing also runs the same arrangement. Vulcan, Virago etc...

[sami_voodoo]

Here's a clip of it in action...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEkiYJ9GH2U&eurl=http://www.fasterandfaster.net/2008/03/tjitze-tjoelkers-homemade-honda-v8.html

[sami_voodoo]

[highlight]Dutch baker, Tjitze Tjoelker always wanted one of the Morbidelli V8's from the '90s, of which only seven were ever built because of the high cost of producing the engine. Most of us would be happy to look at the pictures or view one in the factory museum, but not Tjoelker. He built his own version.

Despite having no mechanical training, he took two Honda 400 Fours and joined them together to form one V8 unit that now produces 120 hp at 10,000 rpm. Over 2500 hours of work went into the project, which included mating the powerplant to the gearbox and driveshaft from a 350 Moto Guzzi. The Guzzi also donated its wheels. Apparently the frame took just one day to build around the engine! Although not road legal, the bike is in full running condition, demonstrated by various videos of it being aired on the worldwide web![/highlight]

link:
http://caferacerclub.shop-forum.net/les-rice-racers-f6/honda-racer-v8-la-becane-de-mongol-t2484.htm

[safeershah]

@sami_vodoo

your knowledge is like vodoo magic , thanks for your help.

[sami_voodoo]

No voodoo magic, google zindabad!

[samhassnn]

@all
lets see which of the big guns can guess what this car is 10 rs inam for who ever guesses it.

[hj2006]

Now that was easy its a 1939 terraplane.
History
The Terraplane was a car brand and model built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1932 and 1939. In its maiden year, the car was branded as the Essex Terraplane; in 1933 the car became simply the Terraplane until 1936 when it was brought fully into the Hudson line-up. The Terraplane was an inexpensive yet powerful vehicle that was used in both town and country, as both cars and trucks bore the Terraplane name. The car was also produced in a convertible version.

[samhassnn]

@hj2006
haha nice !!!! not im not so clumsy i deliberatly changed the pics name to terraplane before poasting so its not a terraplane keep guessing people good luck lol keep guessing its from a very famous car company.

[mohsinikram]

@samhassn
good one

[psyb0rg]

@sam, it's an Auburn something...

[au]

hahaha.

cheeky sam, real cheeky.

[samhassnn]

@psyborg
humm not close at all keep guessing though

@all
thanks all above humm still no conclusive guesses you guys want a hint ??

[sami_voodoo]

A BMW?

[zwaraich]

[zwaraich]