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does anyone know a calculator link or know the sums to work out top speed based on gearing, weight etc?

i'm intere sted to see what a 12ish hp engine can do in a project idea i had

agreed on the above points but we're talking the difference between 138kg out of the box, rwd with stock petrol engine and 400+kg 4wd stock or about a 600lb difference. Agri quads are designed to go slow, pull massive weights, etc across nasty terrain. racing quads and road legal copies of racing qu...

Hmmm is 8.8(cons)10(burst) bhp enough for a quad? been running the numbers and i reckon with a small diesel - either a little RY/changfa/other clone 10hp or a lombardini twin 15hp the total vehicle weight will be around 200-220kg.. plus another 100 for me.. lol.. the quad will need to maintain speed...

lol i love it.. tube buggies and quads woohoo

saw a vid on youtube of a fiat 500 (old one) someone had put a lil diesel in.. looked quite good

hehe no extra forum needed i dont think.. doubt diesel road quads are very popular being as all the diesel quads sold seem to be agri quads.. and the fact that most road quad owners will want the power their petrol engines give had a brief look at the (defunct?) polaris, and the ecorider quad (anoth...

I want a quad bike. I've always wanted a quad bike, just for tooling about town on.. seeing a local lucky git on a road legal quad today in the snow has annoyed me into action. lol. The reason I haven't bought a quad before is that on petrol they aren't really a great deal more economical than cars/...

or not.. just ran some numbers.. hmm.. stuck with the numbers at the mo.. these industrial engines dont seem very economical once you get to the larger capacities ~1L.. back to drawing board

hmm just shows what turns up when you look hard enough.. I've found a project..ahem.. trike that's REALLY cool and i've bought it, absolutely love this thing as it is, perfect perfect perfect. Its power source is a fiat 126 engine/transaxle, the early 23hp 600 rather than the 26hp 700cc.. it's decen...

Hmm. At the price i can get veg oil for, 100mpg is still the equivalent of about 220mpg from anything i would have to put petrol in.. nothing can get near that not even a 125 commuter with all the modern sipping gizmos. a plan is starting to come together.. the custom frame work is a daunting though...

WHOA i was under the impression a twin cylinder would be heavier than a single, but the ruggerini MD151 is 7kg lighter than the kubota OC85/95s at 50kg Ruggerini quote 12.6hp for the 3000rpm MD150 and 16.3hp for the 3600rpm MD151.. Anyone know what the fuel consumption's like on them? its one of my ...

so that dt125 & cg bits turned out to be a lifan 125 with a cg clone engine :lol: Yeah, anyway so i've been looking around, reading on here, looking at the private conversions on the front page, seems people use smaller engines than the ~400-450cc ish i was looking at (9-10hp continuous) but get...

ha im obviously cracking up, forget i asked that

Aye definitely a vegger not a biodieseler.. have run twin tank on a land rover in the past, currently run blends in my Peugeot van. However I have run biodiesel 100% as starting diesel and blended, but only as starting fuel and only when I can find it significantly cheaper than dinofuel - which isn'...

Thought i'd introduce myself, bodger extraordinaire that i am new to the idea of diesel bikes, have thought about it before but thought a diesel engine would be too heavy. generally been more a car man over the years but have been there, done that, got the smelly old stained tshirt now, looking for ...

Hey guys, new here but I've got a few ideas i wanted to run by you all. Saw a thread with a little morgan based kit car, someone was saying those cry out for a small diesel engine, I agree completely, some of the light kit cars would be phenomenal with a small diesel.. this is something I may work o...