Kicker-san's Kei car Coupè

[RUNAMUCK]

Most excellent build Kicker-san.

Defo a thread worth watching.

[Vintage Grumble]

I'm disgusted I didn't find the build thread earlier. This is so far up my alley, it's touching a lung.

[kicker]

Cheers dudes, will try my best to keep progress rolling, so many little problems to solve heh

[Chris.QCR]

Yeh this is cool mate ! Nice work

[rot808]

This is so very very good

[yoeddynz]

More! More! This is great fun. 

[~Slideways~]

This is awesome.

[kicker]

3 hours ago, ~Slideways~ said:

This is awesome.

Cheers!
Keen to see more of your N360

[~Slideways~]

19 hours ago, kicker said:

Cheers!
Keen to see more of your N360

Me too 

[thegreatestben]

I just had a better read through your thread on the laptop instead of phone.

That engine is going to be super sweet, I had a bandit 1200 at one point and it was such a smooth effortless engine.

The fronte's were always fun to pest around in with Joe & John but bleeding from the ears is probably not great long term!

[kicker]

Yeah, I'm thinking it should at least be more drivable than other conversions, it may be 50hp down on a similar age R1 but it has a bit more torque that peaks 4500rpm earlier, may as well fit a towbar haha

Fronte pesting is amazing, all the noise. This is one of my favourite vids, I expect it to grenade every time I watch

That's what 44hp sounds like, 22% increase over stock which was still 100hp per litre

[Nominal]

Nice going @kicker - sounds good and no unwanted fires

 

[kicker]

Cheers  I did have the fire extinguisher just out of shot with the thinking that if I didn't have it handy then I definitely would have needed it.

No leaks from anything too, surprised myself

[kicker]

One downside to taking so long getting it together is that the 80,000k engine is actually a 98,000k engine

Still, it sounds healthy enough. The life of a sports tourer is probably the best way to put km's on.

[GregT]

It's not unkinown to put a larger OD impellor in the waterpump to increase circulation speed. I'd probably have tried that first before going electric.

Nice work so far though.

[kicker]

Didn't seem to be much room to spare inside, do you change the pump housing too?

I had previously discounted an electric pump as the prices were high but found a seller recently who had them for $300 so decided to go for it, plus now I can see what is happening in the cooling system.

[GregT]

Often there is room for a bigger impeller. Might be worth a look across the Suzuki range to see if there's a bigger pump used somewhere. They all seem to have the same OD where they plug into the cases. Maybe Hyabusa ?

Agree a remote pump lets you test circulation rates etc.

[yoeddynz]

13 hours ago, kicker said:

seller recently who had them for $300

Link please I'll be using the same unit for my engine.

[kicker]

1 hour ago, yoeddynz said:

Link please I'll be using the same unit for my engine.

Here you go, looks like it's still on special too

https://nzairfilter.co.nz/davies-craig/8907.html

[Nominal]

Any action @kicker?